This is probably the very tip of a fairly huge iceberg. This company VC3's security staff are no doubt representative of the kind of cheap labor that companies are looking for these days. Hence they are perhaps not as competent in their work as network administrator should be. Anyone can detect a port scan. The point is to have your ducks in a line when the script kiddies come knocking, not to defame some poor guy who happened to knock inadvertently while in the line of duty.
It is interesting to see this kind of case in a U.S. district court, though. I mean, 5 years ago, wouldn't it have sounded strange? "Judge rules that port scans are legal" It's eerie how quickly the courts are brought into the melee.
This is great stuff, but alas, only large companies, the government, or Universities can really enjoy the benefit if optical OC-192 right now, since in order to talk to a computer on the other side of the country at that speed, that computer must also be "speaking" that fast. Hence you need not one, but at least two of these $1000 a month deals to really jumpstart your network. And then, of course, you'd only be talking to yourself or some of the few other organizations who A: have this service and B: are willing to communicate with you. This is great for businesses and research facilities (Parallel computation!!), but even the wealthiest of us maverick internet users will not be downloading mp3s at 100Mbps.
The quote tech slump unquote is indeed a god-send to those of us who were getting weary of bogus technology hype that basically had most people totally snowed. Working at a defense contractor, I was seeing quite a lot of money wasted on COTS products that are slow, bug-ridden pieces of crap, promoted by cheesy marketing and gilded with the latest market buzzwords to the point of being nauseating. Amen to the shake-out. Let the fraudulent companies fall, hopefully now we are all a bit more savvy and will learn to be wary of cheaply built software that is being touted as nothing less than rocket science, not to mention the *ridiculous* price tags on some of the manure being sold by hyped up companies.
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This is probably the very tip of a fairly huge iceberg. This company VC3's security staff are no doubt representative of the kind of cheap labor that companies are looking for these days. Hence they are perhaps not as competent in their work as network administrator should be. Anyone can detect a port scan. The point is to have your ducks in a line when the script kiddies come knocking, not to defame some poor guy who happened to knock inadvertently while in the line of duty. It is interesting to see this kind of case in a U.S. district court, though. I mean, 5 years ago, wouldn't it have sounded strange? "Judge rules that port scans are legal" It's eerie how quickly the courts are brought into the melee.
Considering that most pages you browse will probably have tons of ads on them anyway.
This is great stuff, but alas, only large companies, the government, or Universities can really enjoy the benefit if optical OC-192 right now, since in order to talk to a computer on the other side of the country at that speed, that computer must also be "speaking" that fast. Hence you need not one, but at least two of these $1000 a month deals to really jumpstart your network. And then, of course, you'd only be talking to yourself or some of the few other organizations who A: have this service and B: are willing to communicate with you. This is great for businesses and research facilities (Parallel computation!!), but even the wealthiest of us maverick internet users will not be downloading mp3s at 100Mbps.
The quote tech slump unquote is indeed a god-send to those of us who were getting weary of bogus technology hype that basically had most people totally snowed. Working at a defense contractor, I was seeing quite a lot of money wasted on COTS products that are slow, bug-ridden pieces of crap, promoted by cheesy marketing and gilded with the latest market buzzwords to the point of being nauseating. Amen to the shake-out. Let the fraudulent companies fall, hopefully now we are all a bit more savvy and will learn to be wary of cheaply built software that is being touted as nothing less than rocket science, not to mention the *ridiculous* price tags on some of the manure being sold by hyped up companies.