That something isn't breaking a law doesn't mean its OK to do it. Port scanning a
perfect stranger's machine, when you have no business knowing what that machine is
running, is not something the nice and pure net user should be doing, precisely
because it seeks to get information you really have no business knowing. If you want
to find out if that machine is running a web server, you check port 80. You don't
need to check ports 1-32000 looking for it.
That isn't saying it SHOULD be against the law, because it shouldn't. But everyone
here seems to think it must be one extreme or the other - perfectly ok or illegal.
That's not the case.
I'm done with this thread now, its getting ridiculous.
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> What law is broken by doing so?
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> Who says I can run a port scan against *.*.*.* anytime I like?
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> As far as I'm concerned, this is just another normal and
> proper part of the
> traffic flowing on the net...
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