RE: RE: Port scanning/illegalities

["Andrew Blair" <Andrew.Blair () genmills com>]

This analogy is used often and is not really accurate. 

First - in order to rattle someone's door, you'd have to walk across
their yard, which is trespassing, so you have broken the law before you
even get to the door.

Second - I think private and public/business resources are in different
categories. "Testing" someone's doors cannot be compared to walking up
to an open business and trying to open the door. 

You can take this a lot farther (are internet sites considered "always
open"?, etc..), but you start getting into a lot of things that just
don't equate. That is why this analogy holds no sway with me and I think
it is a poor way to try and argue on either side of this discussion.

AB

-----Original Message-----
From: merlin3315 () yahoo com [mailto:merlin3315 () yahoo com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 2:38 PM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: RE: Port scanning/illegalities

Ok, interesting thread, but, I bet if I were to go to every home in my
neighborhood, rattle the door knobs and tap all the windows for hours on
end, just to "check" if anything were open, and then, if I did find
anything open, notify my neighbor, I bet there would police authorities
on me in no time at all. I would have very annoyed neighbors, and
though, according to Ansgar, I have done nothing wrong or illegal, I am
sure I would be charged with a misdemeanor of some sort. (I am being
sarcastic, I know, but trust me, I'd be the first to call authorities on
you if you rattled the heck out of my windows and doorknobs.)

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