first of all, IANAL, but the TOS seem to cover the basics... However, I am unsure whether they would hold up under strict legal scrutiny. As far as I can tell, they may hold up under US criminal law, but not under civil law, as tort law has its own wonderful little eccentricities. The best safeguard they seem to have is that they must log the source IP of all scan requests... As far as I know, anyone who takes the time to read the nmap man page should be able to craft a scan which won't be detected by the scanned host (can someone be a definitive source on this point?), and anyone taking malicious action ought to be taking sufficient precautions to avoid detection anyway. None-the-less, my 8-ball sees litigation in their future.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason Miller</b> <<a href="mailto:jammer128@gmail.com">jammer128@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
im detecting legal actions already.<div><span class="e" id="q_10f3b683daf7b7fe_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Matousek</b> <<a href="mailto:david@matousec.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
david@matousec.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello,<br><br>For all Nmap fans, our group have implemented Nmap Online service.<br>Its address is <a href="http://nmap-online.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://nmap-online.com/
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