Re: Cuervo, I disagree: ShareSniffer Released

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From: John Navas
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:07

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In <2rjj9toh9i5i2ru4nbnr6i99pu3597ba6s@4ax.com>, rtoledo@gte.net wrote:

>On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 22:34:15 GMT,  "Justin Emalius"
><notta.name@notta.server.net> wrote:
>
>>My ports are my ports.  They're not your ports.  Unless I invite you to use
>>them, you have no business probing or scanning or doing anything else with
>>them.  If you do, it's malicious in my opinion.
>>
>>No one is interfering with your First Amendment right to broadcast anything
>>you want.  Just don't bother me with it.  Anyway, the bandwidth argument may
>>apply to spammers, but not to creeps looking to do something more than get
>>my attention.
>>
>you are on a public network, just like being on the streets walking,
>if you don't want someone looking at you sta
>y home if you don't want ports scanned, stay off the INTERnationalNET

<sigh>  Scanning is not looking.  There is no passive way to scan --
these are active attempts to connect (enter).  It would be like everyone
trying to open the doors on your car just because it's on the public
highway.  Frankly, I don't think you'd be terribly happy about that.
;-)

-- 
Best regards,
John Navas     <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/>
     CABLE MODEM/DSL GUIDE:  <http://Cable-DSL.home.att.net/>

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