> I’m really confused why in the 2020s anybody thinks that unsolicited pentesting is a sane or welcome thing to do. I was looking for a comment like this. You

> I’m really confused why in the 2020s anybody thinks that unsolicited pentesting is a sane or welcome thing to do. I was looking for a comment like this. You couldn't pay me enough to do this sort of thing in this day and age (unless working for a DoD or 3-letter agency contractor, which would have my back covered), nevermind to do it pro bono or bona fide or whatever it is that these guys had in mind (either way, it looks like they were not paid to do it). This sort of action might still have been sort of ok-ish in the late '00s, maybe going into 2010, 2011, but when the Russian/Chinese/North Korean/Iranian cyber threats became real (plus the whole Snowden fiasco) then related laws began to change (both in the US and in Europe) and doing this sort of stuff with no-one to back you up for real (forget the EFF) meant that the one doing it would be asking for trouble in a big way.