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[Rasjid Wilcox]

Tom Wrote:
> > Can I run this on ANY IP  (for legitimate purposes) .....or only on
> > myself?

> From: Scott C. Best [mailto:sbest "at" best.com]
> 	Heya. Answer is no: I coded the GoToMyVNC web-scan so that
> it only scans the IP address from the connecting web browser. That's
> fairly standard for web-scan services; you can imagine the chaos
> if it wasn't. :)

On Wednesday 24 March 2004 11:13, Tom Knowlton wrote:
> Chaos, perhaps....but can't those who want to do this find a way to do it
> anyway?

Sure.  Grab nmap or any one of the other port scanners.  Lots of people use 
nmap etc for perfectly legitimate network diagnosis purposes.  But in making 
his web-service set up to only scan the address the connection comes from, 
Scott can at least sleep at night knowing that *his* service is not being 
used for what might have been illegitiate purposes.

Rasjid.

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Rasjid Wilcox
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