Hey - I have a neat new idea... Let's test the structure of levees by
flooding the rivers and seeing what levees don't survive.
Geoff
On 6/20/22 07:46, Mel Beckman wrote:
Carsten,
No, it’s more like 50,000 furnace guys who show up several times a
day to rattle doorknobs, attempt to push slim Jim’s into window
latches, hack your garage door opener, sneak into your back garden,
and fly drones around your home to see what valuables you might have.
Yes, some of them are altruistic, but some are self-righteous
officious boobs, and the vast majority are career criminals that will
rob your house, drain your retirement account, and kill your family
with a spoofed SWAT raid.
-mel beckman
On Jun 20, 2022, at 4:20 AM, 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