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This seems like a gross exaggeration.

This happens EVERY day to EVERY web server out there. I have a personal site that gets thousands of requests per day from bots.

Running a public server (like NTP) means you will get tons of strange requests. Moreso if you run a web server on the same IP because bots will scrape certificate transparency logs. The entire IPv4 space is scanned continuously.

This may sound harsh, but you cannot stop it. It is whack-a-mole. Filter it and move on, go outside and touch grass, seriously. This is not worth being upset over.

I treat these as an opportunity to tune my filters and firewall rules.

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You don’t think there’s a difference between “hackers try to attack everything“ and “Tesla decided that I personally need to be tested as one of their systems due to a lazy misconfiguration“ are different?

Are you asking if I think Elon had this person's website on an 80" screen in a conference room whilst they collude how to send traffic to their site?

No, I do not.

I get thousands of these "security scanner" requests on a low-traffic site weekly, if not daily. Not a day goes by where someone doesn't try to kick in my door. Are you prepared to waste valuable time in your life to separate the white hat from the black hat requests?

I would have added the IP addresses to my firewall's IP blacklist and forgotten about it the next day. It's really all you can do.

> Are you asking if I think Elon had this person's website on an 80" screen in a conference room whilst they collude how to send traffic to their site?

i cannot fathom how you could possibly arrive at this reading of the gp's comment, what are you talking about

I'm aware how much crap there is on the Internet, I just think the specific nature of this (legitimate commercial vuln scanner thinks I'm Tesla) is funny

It does bring attention to: how many other organizations are doing this?

Tesla is a large enterprise.

They almost certainly subscribe to some overpriced SaaS garbage which is manned by offshore drones who by definition do not care because they're not paid enough to care.

Unfortunately this isn't the 80s anymore where you can ring up a system administrator at a university and get a human on the other end.

That said: cool looking website btw.

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