Without context people might get the wrong end of the stick. There are legitimate reasons to use nmap on your own equipment, sure. A port scanner running on a

Without context people might get the wrong end of the stick. There are legitimate reasons to use nmap on your own equipment, sure. A port scanner running on a webpage without the users knowlege is never legitimate. So the question is what legitimate reason is there for a port scanner running in a web browser with the users knowledge?