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That reminds me of this talk I heard a while back (I think this is it: https://youtu.be/Hk-21p2m8YY)

The guys working on nmap scanned the entire Internet. That set off some serious alarms because on the target side, it looked like they were aware of the existence of the relationship between IPs/assets that were classified. If memory serves some dudes in black suits showed up at their door lol

⬐ zaarn

I don't think the MiB showed up but they got some very aggressive mail from people who got scanned.

⬐ faeyanpiraat

https://youtu.be/Hk-21p2m8YY?t=478

⬐ Matumio

I heard a similar story at a university I once worked. They did some kind of one-off portscan in the early internet days (with blessing of the local providers whose range was scanned). Some local companies got really angry because they spent a lot of time investigating the source.

Agreed, if you want to scan the entire internet, you better be someone like fyodor, and even then the authorities will probably come a knocking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk-21p2m8YY