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> Port scanning and probing is considered illegal and immoral in many countries Do you know of a country where this is true? I know there are some broadly word
by autoexec 7y ago
> Port scanning and probing is considered illegal and immoral in many countries
Do you know of a country where this is true? I know there are some broadly worded laws in England against the use of "hacking tools" but there are so many legitimate uses of port scanning that it'd be hard to explain why a port scanner is any more of a hacker tool than traceroute is.
- fyfy18 7y agoIn the UK it's not illegal per se, but if you go by the letter of the law you could be convicted under the Computer Misuse Act for it. But at the same time you could be convicted for sending a HTTP GET request to a server you don't have permission to access - this law is rather broad. I'm not sure if there's even been a case to test it though, and as the general population becomes more tech savvy it seems unlikely such a conviction would be made for port scanning on it's own.
- jeroenhd 7y agoThere's a bunch of cases denoted over at nmap.org [0]. Also, regardless of law, if you try to do a full probing port scan of certain military IP ranges in many countries, you might get a visit from a couple of not-so-friendly people regardless of legislation. [0] https://nmap.org/book/legal-issues.html https://nmap.org/book/legal-issues.html