<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Wish I still had that email from them where person "possibly not speaking for the company" stated that "they scan the entire internet for vulns and other nefarious things.<div><br></div><div>Where I stated "don't care get your unwanted advertisement scans off my edge, if I want you in the future I know where to find you". And he kept beating around the bush.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-- </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> J. Hellenthal</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 20, 2022, at 01:09, Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">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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