I think you have a right to debug. That's not cracking. If someone has such a knee jerk reaction to that, you probably don't want to do business with them. William Hubbs writes: > From: "William Hubbs" <w.hubbs at comcast.net> > > Hi all, > > I wouldn't go running nmap blindly on another computer without the owner's permission. If you do and the owner complains to your isp you might get shut down for abuse -- they might think you are scanning the ports on the other machine to try to find a way to compromise it. > > I know this because a few years ago when I was running redhat linux (I think it was version 6 or so), someone got into my computer and did this and I was shut down. Fortunately the isp let me back on after I talked to them about what was going on. > > William > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:43:12PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: > > Also, Chuck, recognize that you can use nmap on any address. So, you can > > run: > > > > nmap -P0 [ip.address] > > > > and see what ports are and aren't open on any machine. Might be handy > > along with the traceroute results. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Email: janina at rednote.net Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://a11y.org
