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Re: Port scanning legal

  • From: Leo Bicknell
  • Date: Tue Dec 19 16:02:26 2000 
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 02:06:04PM -0500, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> > How many ports must be scanned before you deem it an attack?  Is one port
> > enough?  Five?  50?
> 
> I don't deem a port scan as vicious or an attack.

	How about "scanning" 1 million ports per second, over and over again?

	:-)

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Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org
Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440
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