On 21 Jul 99, at 22:37, P L STEINBRUCH wrote:
> Dave.
>
> The coments you quote as mine are actually from Bill.
Sorry -- attributions get confused easily.
> Anyway , tell me : if you stand in front of the house of someone else - in
> the sidewalk - and say " Is anybody home ? " , is this a crime ?
>
> Do you believe that in such situation someone can be prosecuted for
> *intrusion* in some place ?
Yes. You may be in violation of statutes covering harassment or noise. If
you get an answer, you may very well have wakened or interrupted someone, and
they may feel justified in being upset with you. And if someone else did
something similar last week and pissed them off sufficiently, they may have
had time to press their political representatives to enact some local
ordinance under which you can be prosecuted.
I'll concede that the statute probably won't call this "intrusion" -- but I
hope you're not too disappointed if I consider that a Red Herring. The claim
that has driven my participation in this thread isn't whether port-scanning
is "*intrusion*", but whether it's *illegal*.
David G
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