Anonabox Analysis

Re:Anonabox Analysis by rsync on Monday April 06, 2015 @04:47PM (#9330610)

"Apologies to bbtec.net, but I _really_ didn't scan their public IP :)"

There is no need to apologize. There is nothing wrong with port scanning a public IP address. In fact, I just did it myself:

  # nmap -sT 126.16.2.1
  
  Starting Nmap 6.25 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2015-04-06 13:46 PDT
  Nmap scan report for softbank126016002001.bbtec.net (126.16.2.1)
  Host is up (0.12s latency).
  Not shown: 994 closed ports
  PORT      STATE    SERVICE
  80/tcp    filtered http
  340/tcp   filtered unknown
  2103/tcp  filtered zephyr-clt
  8000/tcp  filtered http-alt
  55555/tcp filtered unknown
  55600/tcp filtered unknown

  Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 24.78 seconds

No problem at all for anyone involved.

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Re:Anonabox Analysis by chias on Monday April 06, 2015 @05:51PM (#9330909)

Putting aside the question of legality, a port scan that does not have prior authorization is pretty generally considered "impolite". As an analogy, it's certainly not illegal to touch someone else's laptop screen, and if I gesture at something and accidentally land a fingerprint on someone's screen, I'll apologize. Legality notwithstanding, it's kind of a dick move if you see me do that, to walk over and tell me I don't need to apologize to the person, and then plant your own fingersmudge right there next to mine.

In any case, if you're located inside the US, it's almost certainly a violation of your ISP's terms of service.

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Re:Anonabox Analysis by Dylan16807 on Monday April 06, 2015 @05:57PM (#9330936)

Well it's more like saying you don't have to apologize to the laptop. And with invisible smudges.

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Re:Anonabox Analysis by lbthomsen on Monday April 06, 2015 @10:42PM (#9331748)

Hey, I did include a smiley in the original wiki post.

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