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