Scanning the Internet for Vulnerabilities

Mon Jun 20 12:14:49 UTC 2022

Yeah that's another thing, "research" cause you need to learn it let's have them do it too, multiply that by every university \o/

-- 
 J. Hellenthal

The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume.

> On Jun 20, 2022, at 06:22, Carsten Bormann <cabo at tzi.org> wrote:
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> On 2022-06-20, at 04:18, Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org> wrote:
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>> When researchers, or whoever, claim their scanning an altruistic service, I ask them if they would mind someone coming to their home and trying to open all the doors and windows every night. 
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> Well, it is more like the guy who comes once a year and checks that your central heating is not going to blow up.  
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> (Disclaimer: I have supervised students who designed and executed benign mass-scans of the IPv4 Internet in order to validate hypotheses about market penetration of certain security updates, and I definitely would do that again if there is a good reason to perform such a scan.)
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
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