Re: Port scanning legal

["Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk () cisco com>]

Thus spake "Jeff Wheat" <jeff () cetlink net>
> Isn't that just sweet... So in a nutshell it is *not* illegal
> for kiddies to port scan a network looking for vulnerabilities.
> It would seem to me that such scans would impair the integrity
> of ones networks, or am I just smoking crack?

If the scans don't disrupt system operation (they're usually designed
not to), how would it impair network integrity?

To use (yet another) bad analogy, does a burglar walking through a
parking lot checking for unlocked cars commit a crime?  It's only a
crime to steal/vandalize the cars.

> Jeff
> CETLink.Net

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