Scanning the Internet for Vulnerabilities

Mon Jun 20 17:36:22 UTC 2022

On Mon, 20 Jun 2022, Carsten Bormann wrote:
>> On 2022-06-20, at 14:14, J. Hellenthal <jhellenthal at dataix.net> wrote:
>> 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/
> there was some actual research involved.
>
> I agree that there should be a very good reason to expend a tiny bit of everyone’s resources on this.
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> I do not agree that this externality makes any research in this space unethical.

Consent is what makes it unethical.

> You signed up for this when you joined the Internet (er, stuck with the IPv4 Internet, I should probably say).

"If you dont like the unsolicited email, just hit delete" ?

How about ... NO.

-Dan