> violate the security, integrity, or availability of any user, network, computer or communications system, software application, or network or computing device

> violate the security, integrity, or availability of any user, network, computer or communications system, software application, or network or computing device A normal port scan does none of these things. Unless you have some really crappy equipment (I've seen routers choke on a SYN scan), but in my opinion then that's on you.