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		rainonmoon on June 2, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I connected Windows XP to the Internet; it was fin... Yeah that is an absolutely bonkers amount of time so you're probably right in that the approach of low-effort wide net-casting attackers would have to change. I'm curious to know how Shodan etc. deal with this.

kalleboo on June 2, 2024 [–]

Shodan ran an NTP pool time server on IPv6 and harvested the addresses of machines that checked in to get the time. Pretty clever.

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