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Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)
- From: Scott Gifford
- Date: Sat May 18 21:46:02 2002
Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net> writes:
[...]
> And why, pray tell, would some unknown and unaffiliated person be scanning my
> network to gather information or run recon if they were not planning on
> attacking? I'm not saying that you're not right, I'm just saying that so far
> I have heard no valid non-attack reasons for portscans (other than those run
> by network admins against their own networks).
Before choosing an onling bank, I portscanned the networks of the
banks I was considering. It was the only way I could find to get a
rough assessment of their network security, which was important to me
as a customer for obvious reasons.
I'm not sure if I would have been impressed or annoyed if they had
stopped accepting packets from my machine during the scan. :-)
-----ScottG.
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