Firewall Wizards: Re: "Who else picked this one up?"

["R. DuFresne" <dufresne () sysinfo com>]

On Sat, 1 May 1999, Paul D. Robertson wrote:

> On Sat, 1 May 1999, R. DuFresne wrote:
>
> > host and or allow IRC to their users will be excluded?  And you will
> > filter out those testing new security scanners, so as to not put their
> > names on a potential future 'blacklist' also.  And those just testing
> Nobody should be "testing" a scanner against a network I administer 
> without my express permission.  The idea that scanning a foreign network 
> for potential vulnerabilities without permission is valid behaviour is 
> just plain wrong.
I totally agree.  Yet, can I question:  Have we not just reduced this to
an arguement of cyber-moralities?  For, I think, if you got my point that
some probes are not searches for weakness, but, have some other, as yet
mysterious reason behind them, I'm sure, I've watched the probes, can even
initiate them.  Are they infact abusive assualts??  Or are they just bad
manners??!

Thanks,



Ron DuFresne
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