Re: port scanning withing the US: legal?

From: Richard L. Hamilton (rlhamil@smart.net)
Date: 10/25/02 

From: rlhamil@smart.net (Richard L. Hamilton)
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 18:27:20 -0000

In article <apbs00$n19$1@helios.herts.ac.uk>,
        i.h.gregory@herts.ac.uk (Ian Gregory) writes:
[...]
> As most people would readily agree the law has not caught up with
> the internet and I don't think it ever will. Things will just become
> ever more complex and ambiguous unless/until we give up the curious
> notion that one can own information.

Then one had better expect to give up not only the notion that one can
reasonably profit at least to some degree from creating some new and
interesting configuration of information (as well as from providing
service for it), but also give up any notion of privacy, since that is
after all simply restricting others from freely obtaining certain
_personal_ information (not merely of prurient interest either, but all
too exploitable). Now one day, when we all have the 'net jacked right
into our heads, that adjustment might become inevitable. But I really
don't think that we're ready for that level of openness (and I question
whether even a pseudo-telepathic Internet would fundamentally change
flawed human nature enough to do anything other than give the tyranny of
the majority a whole new ultimately sinister meaning). 

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