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Re:Here’s what you find when you scan the entire Internet in... by D9u on Monday August 19, 2013 @02:14AM (#6235886)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6234877

Why be in doubt when the research is published?

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Re:Here’s what you find when you scan the entire Internet in... by guard-of-terra on Monday August 19, 2013 @02:59AM (#6235988)
"Single port number" doesn't mean "same port number every time".
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Re:Here’s what you find when you scan the entire Internet in... by D9u on Monday August 19, 2013 @06:52AM (#6236492)
So what does "scanning the public IPv4 address space on a single port in under 45 minutes" really mean then?

Did you even read the documents?

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Re:Here’s what you find when you scan the entire Internet in... by guard-of-terra on Monday August 19, 2013 @07:58AM (#6236704)
They visit one port in the whole internet. This doesn't prevent them from visiting another port of the whole internet next time.

This makes "they visited the whole internet" true, "they aren't limited to web only" also true.

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