Re: @Home Nederland - port scans are OK

[Philipp Buehler <lists () fips de>]

On 05/10/2000, Edwin ten Brink <edwin () CAM061311 STUDENT UTWENTE NL> wrote To INCIDENTS () SECURITYFOCUS COM:
> There may be some people who scan ports (and I'm not even _thinking_ about
> opening the discussion whether this is or is not a hostile activity), but I
Yep, if the original poster is really concerned about that and want to
shut down the maybe malicious user, install snort and/or a honeypot and
report real breaking-in activities. This *is* hostile.

> Just keep your box secure...
Well, you cant always do that. Do you know *any* unpublished black-hat
exploit out there and have a patch against that? :P

ciao
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