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Re: Odd identd behavior
From: Tomasz Papszun <tomek-incid () lodz tpsa pl>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:03:53 +0100
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 at 10:31:22 -0500, Manuel Lanctot wrote:
Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers wrote:Very doubtful. I'm not aware of any law that forbids even portscans, much less network troubleshooting or the use of tools like nmap in general.I can't find the related articles but I remember reading something about a man who was arrested after portscanning a website because he donated for a relief fund (after Katrina) and suspected it was a scam. I don't remember if he was indeed charged but he was at least arrested, which is pretty scary.
And he (Daniel Cuthbert) did _not_ scanned the website, just tried a directory traversal (entering "higher" directories) by putting ../../../ in his browser URL field. http://taint.org/index.php?tag=ids http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/008118.html http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39226548,00.htm http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/11/tsunami_hacker_followup/ http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/07/1532241&tid=172 http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/11/228241&tid=167&tid=121&tid=223&tid=172&tid=220 -- Tomasz Papszun SysAdm @ TP S.A. Lodz, Poland | And it's only tomek at lodz.tpsa.pl http://www.lodz.tpsa.pl/iso/ | ones and zeros. tomek at clamav.net http://www.ClamAV.net/ A GPL virus scanner
Current thread:
- Re: Odd identd behavior, (continued)
- Re: Odd identd behavior Mike Owen (Nov 15)
- Re: Odd identd behavior kgp (Nov 15)
- Re: Odd identd behavior Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Nov 16)
- Re: Odd identd behavior Barrie Dempster (Nov 16)
- Re: Odd identd behavior Mike Owen (Nov 15)
- Re: Odd identd behavior Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Nov 16)
- Re: Odd identd behavior Lionel Ferette (Nov 16)
- Re: Odd identd behavior Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Nov 17)
- RE: Odd identd behavior Alex (Nov 17)
- Re: Odd identd behavior Manuel Lanctot (Nov 16)
- Re: Odd identd behavior Kevin Wetzel - ISP Toolz (Nov 16)
- Re: Odd identd behavior Tomasz Papszun (Nov 16)
- Re: Odd identd behavior Disco Jonny (Nov 16)
- Re: Odd identd behavior Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Nov 16)