On 2022-06-20, at 04:18, Mel Beckman <m...@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
