[KLUG Members] Re: legality

[Bryan J. Smith]

Bruce Smith wrote:
> I'm not ignoring that point at all.
> I would have never known he's serving files to the entire internet
> because I WOULD NOT HAVE LOOKED!!!
> Just the action of probing for open ports or services can get you
> in trouble.

Er, I understand everyone's fear here.  But I don't think the law
should have a "0 tolerance policy" on private citizens, especially
since corporations can trash your privacy to the point of what could
be considered "criminal" level access to your system with various
backdoors and spyware (despite any click thru you may have agreed
to).

Because I once also did leave a file in someone's SMB share.  It was
text file with an appology for accidently tresspassing onto his
system.  My dynamic DNS hadn't updated, so I could not SSH into his
box (which I thought was mine).  I then looked at port 139, which
was open, did a smbclient NetBIOS list and saw some open shares.  I
left a text file with the appology and said, "sorry I had hit port
22 on his system, to make it up, I would gladly help him setup a
firewall," and left my E-mail address.

I never heard from him.  Maybe I will someday?

-- TheBS

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