Scanning the Internet for Vulnerabilities

Mon Jun 20 19:45:57 UTC 2022

Hey - I have a neat new idea...  Let's test the structure of levees by 
flooding the rivers and seeing what levees don't survive.

Geoff

On 6/20/22 07:46, Mel Beckman wrote:
> Carsten,
>
> No, it’s more like 50,000 furnace guys who show up several times a 
> day to rattle doorknobs, attempt to push slim Jim’s into window 
> latches, hack your garage door opener, sneak into your back garden, 
> and fly drones around your home to see what valuables you might have. 
> Yes, some of them are altruistic, but some are self-righteous 
> officious boobs, and the vast majority are career criminals that will 
> rob your house, drain your retirement account, and kill your family 
> with a spoofed SWAT raid.
>
> -mel beckman
>
>> On Jun 20, 2022, at 4:20 AM, Carsten Bormann <cabo at tzi.org> wrote:
>> On 2022-06-20, at 04:18, Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org> 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.
>> Well, it is more like the guy who comes once a year and checks that 
>> your central heating is not going to blow up.
>>
>> (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