Law Review Article Says Port Scanning Illegal
Law Review Article Says Port Scanning Illegal
Anonymous Coward writes: “The Journal of Technology Law and Policy has a good article on computer security and privacy. If you ignore the more metaphorical crap at the beginning of the article, the author marches through some laws that apply to the Internet and shows how they apply and why his way of deciding what kind of access to a computer breaks the law and what kinds don’t is better. (Its based on property and expectations of privacy.) It’s interesting to see the computer security from a lawyer’s point of view. Especially interesting are his claims that using nmap is illegal, despite the VC3 v. Moulton case. I’m not sure I agree with him, but he definitely makes a pretty sobering case.” Actually, I think the metaphors throughout this piece (not just at the beginning) are what make it interesting, and a big component of law is dealing with metaphors. This piece also collects in one place a lot of the cases dealing with computer law.
