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> You are not better off in any meaningful way if you block a public vulnerability scanner but leave yourself wide open to everyone else. That is a value judgm
by nmeagent 4y ago
> You are not better off in any meaningful way if you block a public vulnerability scanner but leave yourself wide open to everyone else.
That is a value judgment better made by the server owner, don't you think? It is their private (perhaps leased) property we're talking about after all. Perhaps the government should ask first before periodically scanning someone's property?
- acdha 4y agoIt’s privately owned but publicly accessible and there’s a strong public interest in shutting down insecure servers before they’re compromised by malicious actors. To me this seems more like the government having an inspector walking down the street and observing whether your building has broken windows, rats, and smells of gas. Any information they get is something you’re giving away to the entire internet anyway. Again, I’m not saying you don’t have the right to block them - they even give you an easy way to opt-out - but that it seems misdirected to worry about the people asking nicely when the internet is full of actually malicious people who don’t ask.