will hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What FUD. From the same manpage we have: > > "I have scanned hundreds of thousands of machines and have received > only one complaint. But I am not a lawyer and some (anal) people may > be annoyed by nmap probes. Get permission first or use at your own > risk." > > The word anal sums things up well, except I think you are exaggerating > the risks for some reason. You also neglected to include a little > before your quote of that man page:
I'm NOT exaggerating the risks. For crying out loud. read what I've been saying. John Hebert would not do the port scan on the page because he didn't want to click through the indemnification clause. All I was pointing out was that this was pretty standard stuff for a site that's gonna do a port scan. And that's because there's always the possibility that one could argue the port scan caused a crash or some other problem. I ENCOURAGED people to do the port scan. It a REALLY GOOD IDEA to see what a port scan of your IP looks like from a remote site. All I was pointing out was the justificaton for wanting a click through agreement on a scan as per John's request. Sheesh. -- Scott Harney<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...and one script to rule them all." gpg key fingerprint=7125 0BD3 8EC4 08D7 321D CEE9 F024 7DA6 0BC7 94E5
