RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] network scanning?

["McNutt, Justin M." <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Last I heard, it is a criminal offense under federal computer espionage laws
to perform an unauthorized scan against someone's computers.

What's interesting is that there was an interesting ruling in a scanning
case recently, where the defendant will have to face criminal charges, but
will *NOT* have to face a civil suit.

The company was trying to sue him for "damages", claiming that their
security people wasted a lot of time and effort trying to track him down.
The court ruled that since he did no damage to their computer system and
since their *business* was not interrupted in any way, that they couldn't
sue him for taking the time to do their jobs.  :-)

But he's still facing criminal charges for a port scan.

--J

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 11:00 AM
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Subject: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] network scanning?
> 
> 
> Is it illegal to scan groups of IP addresses for 
> machines/companies that
> are good prospects to try to sell a security audit? I scan machines
> individually out of curiosity all the time but I've always 
> figured people
> could probably bitch about it to the right people and cause 
> me a lot of
> hassles.
> 
> *^*^*^*
> Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
> http://www.kavlon.com
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