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> Not really. The site operator has done nothing that has not already been done before, and it's little more than a basic nmap scan for services (which anyone can do).

Merely because something is easy, or common, does not make it ethical. In fact, I think those factors should be entirety unrelated to ethics.

Theft has been done before. Theft is easy to do. Therefore, it's ethical to steal. This seems to be the logic you're following... Correct me if I'm wrong?




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