Re: Scanning the Internet for Vulnerabilities

["J. Hellenthal via NANOG" <nanog () nanog org>]

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/

-- 
 J. Hellenthal

The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume.

> On Jun 20, 2022, at 06:22, Carsten Bormann <cabo () tzi org> wrote:
>
> 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