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 <c...@tzi.org> wrote: > > 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 >
