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| Subject: | Re: Odd identd behavior |
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| Date: | Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:03:53 +0100 |
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 at 10:31:22 -0500, Manuel Lanctot wrote:
Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers wrote:Very doubtful. I'm not aware of any law that forbids even portscans, much less network troubleshooting or the use of tools like nmap in general.I can't find the related articles but I remember reading something about a man who was arrested after portscanning a website because he donated for a relief fund (after Katrina) and suspected it was a scam. I don't remember if he was indeed charged but he was at least arrested, which is pretty scary.
And he (Daniel Cuthbert) did _not_ scanned the website, just tried a directory traversal (entering "higher" directories) by putting ../../../ in his browser URL field. http://taint.org/index.php?tag=ids http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/008118.html http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39226548,00.htm http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/11/tsunami_hacker_followup/ http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/07/1532241&tid=172 http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/11/228241&tid=167&tid=121&tid=223&tid=172&tid=220 -- Tomasz Papszun SysAdm @ TP S.A. Lodz, Poland | And it's only tomek at lodz.tpsa.pl http://www.lodz.tpsa.pl/iso/ | ones and zeros. tomek at clamav.net http://www.ClamAV.net/ A GPL virus scanner
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