As we venture further into ethical hacking and network scanning, I think we begin to enter the gray area of where ethical and non ethical hacking meet. Port scanning, I believe, is right in the middle of this gray area as tools like nmap do not cause any damage to a system but is very revealing of how someone “could” cause damage. The comparison I have seen people make to explain the ethics of port scanning is it’s like going up to someone’s house and checking which windows and doors are unlocked. Could you necessarily go to jail for this? Maybe in some county in some state. Would the home owner be happy you came on to their property and started opening doors? Definitely not. Port scanning may technically not be illegal but it’s probably not ethical. There have been numerous court cases in which scanning was not found to be illegal. The article references Moulton v. VC3 to highlight this. The article also references the Computer Code of Conduct at Rochester Institute of Technology which makes no mention of scanning. As Professor Mackey stressed in the beginning of the course, it is best to get permission before any scanning\/hacking activities!<\/p>\n
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