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Federal Judge Says It's OK To Port Scan Networks

Posted by michael on from the nmap dept.

Alex Bischoff writes: "As noted in this Politech posting, a federal district judge says it's OK to do port scans on networks. 'The court concluded that an imperceptible slowdown in performance was not damaged under the Georgia law.'" Note that this is a very specific situation; only one data point out of many that will be required to figure out how various laws apply to the Internet.

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  1. Portscanning by von_brandt · · Score: 3

    Her in the cold north (Norway) it is allowed to port scan, i even heard a fellow say its allowd to try to hack a computer, its once you have done it its illegal.

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  2. Uh. Shouldn't This Be On The Main Page? by Seumas · · Score: 5

    Just seems that this would be an article best posted on the main page of Slashdot. This is of interest to everyone and deserved more than half dozen posts of discussion. It's certainly more widely interesting than Fandom Vs. Fandom or Read To Your Childre, Go To Jail.
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