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Re:Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users by gburt on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @05:15PM (#7562457)
I don't understand all the huff on that forum about this. It pings to see if you have some ports open. So what?
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Re:Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users by davidgerard on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @05:46PM (#7562677)
The "huff" is that this forum is the attempted community fork of Slashdot that even less people care about.
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Re:Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users by duaneb on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @07:36PM (#7563265)
That's typically the signature of malware, not a document server.
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