<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">shadow server (to the best of my knowledge) only scans sites that have invited them to do so.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 19, 2022, at 10:43 , Forrest Christian (List Account) <<a href="mailto:lists@packetflux.com" class="">lists@packetflux.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">See <a href="http://shadowserver.net/" class="">shadowserver.net</a></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 19, 2022, 4:13 AM Ronald F. Guilmette <<a href="mailto:rfg@tristatelogic.com" class="">rfg@tristatelogic.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I would like to solicit the opinions of network operators on the practice<br class="">
of scanning all of, or large chunks of the internet for known vulnerabilities.<br class="">
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In earlier times, this was generally viewed as being distinctly anti-social<br class="">
behavior, but perhaps attitudes have changed relative to earlier eras.<br class="">
I would thus like to know how people feel about it now, in 2022.<br class="">
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Regards,<br class="">
rfg<br class="">
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P.S. Just to be clear, I personally have neither any desire nor any intent<br class="">
to undertake such activity myself, nor am I in communiacation with any party<br class="">
or parties that have such an intent or desire. I cannot however say that I<br class="">
am unaware of any parties that may currently be involved in such activities.<br class="">
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