Actually, the blacklist isn't really an effective solution to the scanning problem, given the proliferation of botnets. All I'd need is a botnet consisting of 65,535 hosts to scan every TCP port on your system in a distributed fashion. Not an unusual size nowadays.
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Actually, the blacklist isn't really an effective solution to the scanning problem, given the proliferation of botnets. All I'd need is a botnet consisting of 65,535 hosts to scan every TCP port on your system in a distributed fashion. Not an unusual size nowadays.