Knowing the Randy's research, i am sure that Randy will be doing great work this time too. Being a network researcher I can not wait more to see results of this experiments. But, even then I dont think it was a real smart thing to do without prior permission.
> And yes, it applies in the network world as well. When we pre-announce "We > will be doing network scans from IP address w.x.y.z", we have a lot of > users > who will just blindly firewall off that IP rather than fixing their real > issue > they know the scan will detect... > > I think if this could have been the case in the network security research then we would not have some this far (though it still is not that far :) ) in the field. People have contributed specifically for research in the past and I hope will remain doing so. -- Ghulam Murtaza Lahore University of Management Sciences