[Full-disclosure] scanning

[Steve Kudlak]

Nightfall Nightfall wrote:

> Is it illegal if I perform a vulnerability scan on a site without
> permission from the owner? How about a simple port scan? thanks..
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For research probably no. A lot of this stuff hangs on intent. When we 
ground away on computer crime legislation we tried to keep innocent acts 
from being criminalized. So in general things done out of curiosity are 
pretty safe. However be squeaky clean. If your house/apartment and disk 
drive are littered with "destroy the established powers" literature then 
you are close to the ham sandwhich that can get indicted. If it is funn 
of "gee whiz this tech stuff is neat and let's go and explore" then you 
look like a ham sandwhich and more like a chiccken salad sandwhich or 
better yet a tofu surprise sandwhich which are much hader to indict.. 
This is all said in kind of analogical fun jest but as they say many a 
true word is said in jest.

Havbe Fun,
Sends Steve