Re: Odd identd behavior

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 at 10:31:22 -0500, Manuel Lanctot wrote:
> Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers wrote:
> 
> >Very doubtful. I'm not aware of any law that forbids even portscans,
> >
> >much less network troubleshooting or the use of tools like nmap in
> >general.
> 
> I can't find the related articles but I remember reading something about 
> a man who was arrested after portscanning a website because he donated 
> for a relief fund (after Katrina) and suspected it was a scam. I don't 
> remember if he was indeed charged but he was at least arrested, which is 
> pretty scary.
> 

And he (Daniel Cuthbert) did _not_ scanned the website, just tried a
directory traversal (entering "higher" directories) by putting ../../../
in his browser URL field.

http://taint.org/index.php?tag=ids
http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/008118.html
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39226548,00.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/11/tsunami_hacker_followup/
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/07/1532241&tid=172
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/11/228241&tid=167&tid=121&tid=223&tid=172&tid=220

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