<div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Absolutely – I have seen something as simple as an nmap port scan tickle a latent bug and cause widespread service interruptions.</span></blockquote><u style="font-size:12.8px"></u><u style="font-size:12.8px"></u><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">If an application is so buggy that it falls over to a ping sweep maybe we should be thanking the tester for uncovering the critical flaw in the application instead?! :P</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><pre><br>Regards,<br><br>Thomas Cuthbert</pre></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Bob Purdon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobp@purdon.id.au" target="_blank">bobp@purdon.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_890063822769027628WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div><div><p class="m_890063822769027628MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span>Ø<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u>Be aware that running penetration tools just to see what happens can lead to spectacular outages and questions of who authorised this.<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Absolutely – I have seen something as simple as an nmap port scan tickle a latent bug and cause widespread service interruptions.<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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