>To me, this is the same as dialing a random phone number and seeing if
>someone answers. This isn't illegal, though it may be annoying, and so
>long as the person who does it doesn't repeatedly do it when you ask him
>not to, no crime is commited (that I know of, or even if one has you're
>not going to see the Feds go knocking on the caller's door...) and no real
>harm is done. So let it alone. I agree that it COULD be a prelude to an
>attack, but it doesn't have to be, and if that's the case, prosecute the
>ATTACK, not the scan. Scanning is harmless.
An excellent analogy, thank you. I was just about to say forget about all
these analogies entirely, but this one actually seems to fit.
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