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isoprophlex on Oct 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Some idiot is using your tool to mass scan our net...

I'm very much tempted to try, i wonder what comes of it.

If you run any services (ssh, vpn, whatever) from your home connection you're probably making yourself into a target for counter scans

tleb_ on Oct 9, 2020 [–]

Mine got disconnected for about 30 minutes. Then I just calculated the rate I needed for the duration I found acceptable (one week for a single country) and let it run at this rate; no issue then.

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