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> Of course if anyone did sue me or whatever I'd slaughter them
> by posting
> every security weakness they had to usenet with directions on how to
> exploit them. If I'm gonna go down for doing something
> harmless I'll take
> them with me. IMO scanning is possibly rude.. it's like
> standing on the
> front walk and looking at your neighbors house for open windows or
> bedrooms with parted curtains.
First of all, that is only likely to add to the charges against you.
Second, scanning is well-known for crashing certain types of machines.
Those machines are considered unstable for that reason, but it doesn't make
it legal to scan and crash it (even unintentionally).
--J
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