Re: Scanning the Internet for Vulnerabilities

[Carsten Bormann <cabo () tzi org>]

On 2022-06-20, at 04:18, Mel Beckman <mel () 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