Scanning the Internet for Vulnerabilities

Wed Jun 22 04:04:12 UTC 2022

When I lock the doors etc to my home I'll often mutter "ya know, if
someone is rattling my door knob I already have a big problem."

I suppose when I'm home it might give me a warning if I hear it.

There must be a metaphor in there somewhere.

I do recall as a teen noticing that one of the closed store's on the
main drag's door was unlocked late one night walking home (this was in
NYC.)

I saw a cop and told him and he scolded me angrily for rattling door
knobs, I could be arrested for that! But verified it, looked around
inside with his flashlight, and called it in.

I forget how I noticed but I wasn't in the habit of rattling stores'
door knobs, I think the door was just a bit ajar.

There must be a metaphor in there somewhere.

On June 21, 2022 at 10:01 mpalmer at hezmatt.org (Matt Palmer) wrote:
 > On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 02:18:30AM +0000, Mel Beckman wrote:
 > > 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.
 > 
 > If there were a few hundred people with nefarious intent trying to open your
 > doors and windows every night, someone doing the same thing with altruistic
 > intent might not be such a bad thing.
 > 
 > - Matt

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