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Legal Issues | Nmap Network Scanning
What's the legality of port scanning using a tool such as nmap, like you'll do in lab? This webpage on the nmap website goes over some things that users should think about. It mentions the only court case to date that has directly addressed the issue of the legality of port scanning, a 2000 case from a Georgia federal district court that we'll discuss in class.
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