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Re:I connected Windows XP to the Internet; it was fine by rainonmoon on Saturday June 01, 2024 @11:31PM (#40551118)
Yeah that is an absolutely bonkers amount of time so you're probably right in that the approach of low-effort wide net-casting attackers would have to change. I'm curious to know how Shodan etc. deal with this.
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Re:I connected Windows XP to the Internet; it was fine by kalleboo on Sunday June 02, 2024 @02:35AM (#40551899)
Shodan ran an NTP pool time server on IPv6 and harvested the addresses of machines that checked in to get the time. Pretty clever.
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