Neil J. McRae wrote:
IANAL, but I wasn't aware of a law prohibiting portscans. So neither you nor your customer is doing someting illegal.
Not sure about the Swiss specific situation, but nearly every
EU member state as a law that makes this possibly illegal.
Well, looks like it's portscanning "never ending thread" season again. This is a never ending discussion, and each time somebody asks the question "is portscanning illegal" on a mailing-list or newsgroup it ends in "is there a moderator ?" or "how do I unsubscribe ?".
As far as I know, there is no case nor any judgement related to portscanning activities (nor in the US, nor in the EU). Most of us aren't lawyers: all the technical discussions and the usual "real life" examples (read "if somebody tries to open every door of my house - it's the same thing") aren't valid concepts nor relevant. For the french speaking ones on the list, Thiebaut Devergranne [1] did quite an extensive research through french law and cases. He came to the conclusion that portscanning isn't illegal (at least in .fr). [1] MISC#4:"Un scan de port est-il licite" - http://www.miscmag.com/ Nico. -- Nicolas FISCHBACH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.securite.org/nico/> IP Engineering Manager - COLT Telecom AG Securite.Org Team <http://www.securite.org/> ---------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/
