I agree that the government is trying to take over the USA with the terrorist threats. I have a story about port scanning. I had been useing a port scanning divice, and I was learning more about telneting and the like. I got a new portscanner to try, and I did not know people dislike you useing them. From what I had read it was legal. Well I tried the new port scanner, for no reason in particular, on my ISP. I thought I might try to telnet in and send an email of their maill server. Well our ISP killed our account, and my parents just about killed me. I still read it is legal, but the problem is that too many people misuse this powerful tool. Oh, just in case you are interested, we did finaly get our ISP to reconnect us.