I can’t help but laugh at all the times people try to use “risk vs reward” as justification for their terrible ideas.
What makes you think using a Scanner on another ship should be “risky”? What part of taking an X-ray at the doctor’s office makes you want to punch the doctor in the face for their effort? Or going through a metal detector before entering some fancy building.
Scanners do not yield any “reward” other than knowledge. You still have to peel the ship away from all those mods and all that cargo before you get any “rewards”. Pretty soon you whiny brats are going to start saying that Scan Probes should flag you too.
Ridiculous =)