Re: Scanning the Internet for Vulnerabilities

["Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg () tristatelogic com>]

In message <4e6319ba-d332-f25e-d128-1b8abc724039 () si6networks com>, 
Fernando Gont <fgont () si6networks com> wrote:

> > Depending on who is doing it, and why, my personal feeling is that even
> > here in 2022 this should still be viewed as being exceptionally anti-social,
> > and worthy of calling out publicly, but I must allow for the possibility
> > that my personal views on this may be antiquated and out of step with current
> > prevailing norms and attitudes.
>
> Aside from what I've noted above, and without really taking a stance on 
> whether what you not might or might not make sense, I'd probably argue 
> that, the folks that one should probably e most concerned about would 
> probably run the scans from VMs they probably paid with cryptocurrency. 
>  The attacks would probably be non-trivial to attribute...

Yes, to all of the above.

But there are always exceptions. :-)


Regards,
rfg