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Interesting, port scanning is illegal in some countries as it's classified as security testing, it can be only performed with permission. How would you feel is
by akerro 6y ago
Interesting, port scanning is illegal in some countries as it's classified as security testing, it can be only performed with permission.
How would you feel is someone was walking on busy car parking and checking if doors of the cars are open? It' what port scanning is, checking if the car has open door.
- kchr 6y agoIs opening car doors illegal if you never enter the car/steal anything?
- ac29 6y agoA motivated prosecutor could almost certainly find something to throw at you - some variety of public nuisance law or something.
- clarry 6y ago> How would you feel is someone was walking on busy car parking and checking if doors of the cars are open? It' what port scanning is, checking if the car has open door. More like sending a "hi, can I enter?" signal to a self-driving taxi that has been left waiting in a public arena. Don't put a server online with a public IP if you don't want to receive those signals. Don't send "hi yes you can enter!" responses when you get the query, if you don't want to let people in.
- jgwil2 6y agoExcept in the case described by the article, the port scanning is being done not on servers on the public internet but on clients of certain websites.