china says not a problem since they have head in sand and ignore cooperation phone contact with chinse folks does not help either
colin Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Apr 2015, at 19:51, Barry Shein <b...@world.std.com> wrote: > > >> On April 3, 2015 at 20:22 baconzom...@gmail.com (Bacon Zombie) wrote: >> Is port scanning illegal in China? >> >> If not the there is no reason for then to do anything about it. > > I don't think that's a minimal standard one has to use, illegal or > not. > > Management of the internet infrastructure is primarily a cooperative, > voluntary (in terms of cooperation and communication and agreement to > BCPs and standards), and good-faith effort, not just bounded by what > is or isn't illegal. > > As I said before these are companies most probably with many millions > of dollars on the table, not miscreants out to cause problems. > > I suspect if one got them to the table the answers would be a bit more > nuanced than "it's not illegal!" even if someone burdened with manning > a support desk may have said something like that. > > All we really know at this point is that flinging emails at their > admins hasn't been as effective as one might like. That's not entirely > surprising. > > -- > -Barry Shein > > The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com > Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada > Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*