Scanning the Internet for Vulnerabilities

Sun Jun 19 11:34:35 UTC 2022

IMHO not good.

-J

On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 5:14 AM Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com>
wrote:

> I would like to solicit the opinions of network operators on the practice
> of scanning all of, or large chunks of the internet for known
> vulnerabilities.
>
> In earlier times, this was generally viewed as being distinctly anti-social
> behavior, but perhaps attitudes have changed relative to earlier eras.
> I would thus like to know how people feel about it now, in 2022.
>
>
> Regards,
> rfg
>
>
> P.S.  Just to be clear, I personally have neither any desire nor any intent
> to undertake such activity myself, nor am I in communiacation with any
> party
> or parties that have such an intent or desire.  I cannot however say that I
> am unaware of any parties that may currently be involved in such
> activities.
>
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