Do you think this is ethical, if you had the ability would you do this as well?

Question

C:\>nmap -v -sS -O -P0 -nO stormfront.txt www.stormfront.org

Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap ) at 2006-08-19 21:05 Eastern Standard Time
Failed to resolve given hostname/IP: stormfront.txt. Note that you can't use '/mask' AND '1-4,7,100-' style IP ranges
Initiating SYN Stealth Scan against 70.85.161.7 [1680 ports] at 21:05
Discovered open port 53/tcp on 70.85.161.7
Discovered open port 22/tcp on 70.85.161.7
Discovered open port 25/tcp on 70.85.161.7
Discovered open port 80/tcp on 70.85.161.7
Discovered open port 143/tcp on 70.85.161.7
Discovered open port 8080/tcp on 70.85.161.7
SYN Stealth Scan Timing: About 33.69% done; ETC: 21:07 (0:00:59 remaining)
Discovered open port 110/tcp on 70.85.161.7
The SYN Stealth Scan took 50.10s to scan 1680 total ports.
For OSScan assuming port 22 is open, 443 is closed, and neither are firewalled
For OSScan assuming port 22 is open, 443 is closed, and neither are firewalled
For OSScan assuming port 22 is open, 443 i

Answer 1

I think it is highly unethical, but if I could, I would do it, a lot! I love hackers - they are the rebbels of the modern age!

Answer 2

Scanning ports is ethical.

It's a administrator failure to let the ports (doors of the system) open, except the ones they need to the services they provide (as 80, 25, 21, 8080, 135, 139).

It's a crime to try to invade the systems using the open ports.
Well... if it's ethical or not is outside the domain.

Answer 3

I think it is difficult to give an answer to this question without knowing the context. For example, you may be doing a security audit and have written permission. Or, you may be trying to prove a point to a friend about his lack of a firewall and so on.

Like many tools, nmap is powerful and effective. Used correctly it can identify a lot of problems.

Answer 4

Finding open ports and hacking is never an "ethical" thing to do. Thus the laws against it.

Answer 5

A good firewall would prevent that.

Answer 6

Beats me----let your conscience be your guide.

Answer 7

what makes you think i can't

ethical ? to deep a question for me

Answer 8

not good :)