[H-GEN] (AUSCERT#38535) Re: The recient spate of port scans and intrusion attempts. (fwd)

[Byron Ellacott]

On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 10:55:17AM +1000, Andrae Muys wrote:
> However on the other hand it is rather hard to _accidentally_ strobe a
> machine.  Even harder to accidentally strobe an entire domain :).
I agree it's difficult to accidentally probe a machine, but probing a
domain might not be that hard - if a tool supports scanning the domain
automatically, and you were only intending to scan your machine to
check it for security, but make a mistake, ..?

Incompetence is no defense in the eyes of the law? :)

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