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"They" are me.

What's up with this belief that anybody you haven't heard of is a member of some shadowy organization? I'm a well known security researcher, I give several presentations a year at cybersec conferences, and my blog gets regularly link to from news.ycombinator.com.

Also, the post above excludes the first part of that: "We are happy to add your IP addresses to our blacklist so we won't ever scan you again".

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Well, as long as you own that IP. So once whitelisted and you switch to a new IP that IP stays whitelisted.

Its safe to assume on the Internet that anybody that comes to you, is a bot or a scam of some kind. Not a surprise to you, a security consultant.

I understand frustration that you can't convince everyone that you are a good guy. All good guys these days have that problem. Even the good folks at the NSA ( you aren't one of them, are you? )

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