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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.
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.