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Researcher Scans All IP Addresses of Austria, Finds a Ton of Things That Shouldn't Be Online (haschek.at)
Christian Haschek scanned the entire Austrian IP space and found IP cameras, printers, and industrial control systems and a range of other devices that should not be online.
IT professionals around the world were shocked by this discovery. Not in the slightest.
If I had a DeLorean... I would probably only drive it from time to time.
FYI: in Europe we use periods instead of commas to visually separate long integer numbers into groups of 3 ... a no brainer if you had looked closely and seen he made the "same mistake" twice.
American way: 1,000,000
European way: 1.000.000
Simple, isn't it?
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
American way: 1,000,000
It is not just America. 70% of the world uses commas as separators with a decimal point. We out number the dot-separators more than two-to-one.
Of the nine countries with nuclear weapons, seven use commas as separators. So if you want to fight this out, you are gonna lose.
COBOL was created in collaboration between Americans and Europeans, and it nearly broke down over the number seperator, with one researcher emotionally declaring, "I will never use a period as a decimal point!" Eventually they came to a compromise but not before a tombstone was made for COBOL. https://www.computerhistory.or... Next let's tackle the controversy of order of operations! Left to right is of course the proper order.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
At a defcon talk in 2014 (talk slides) they scanned the whole IPv4 space live, looking for VNC instances. At least, anything that responded to a SYN packet.
Then they took a couple months to connect to each VNC instance, if no password was required, grab a screen shot.
Leading to a series of talks of things that shouldn't be on the internet.
09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
That is what websites should do. A functional website should never return a 404.
I agree, my web site sends a redirect to the Austrian government when a page isn't found. I get about 10,000 request a day for wp-login.php and I don't host any wordpress sites.
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.