But it shouldn't be normal, that a car company tries to automatically hack private servers.

Oh absolutely, I just think the specific nature of this (legitimate commercial vuln scanner thinks I'm Tesla) is funny

This is HN plenty of us host servers at home and understand the obviously true fact that you can't really stop it forever.

But that obviously isn't what we're talking about here. We're talking about a massive multibillion dollar corporation breaking the rules of a community project they joined by committing a Jr Sysadmin grade fuck up and ghosting the people who's infrastructure they have now placed in the crosshairs of serious, enterprise grade automated vulnerability testing from a company who might now inadvertently be committing a felony.

That's a bit different than getting a few dozen lazy hits a day because some botnet got to your IP in the Shodan and saw the Plex port open.

I don't disagree with you, I have tons of things that have public interfaces (as mundane as a fully patched wordpress where the wp-admin login is accessible to external blog writers), we get tens of thousands of random shit anything per day. But the problem here is that Tesla is treating NTP pool operators like they are their internal infrastructure. Also because the attribution of the 'attacks' is fairly well known.

I don't go complaining on the internet about the absolute shitflood of compromised routers on broadband ISPs in Indonesia probing my stuff 24x7x365 because I know it would be futile. But if I found one specific american company that was repeatedly probing my stuff all the time? Maybe I'd escalate it.