[Discuss] Port Scanning

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On 8/1/24 15:28, Rich Pieri wrote:
> Because 40 years ago there were maybe 50,000 nodes on ARPANET.

AWS goes back to 2002. By 2006 S3 and Elastic Compute were available. 
Twenty years, to go from blank sheet to "Are you a backend programmer or 
frontend programmer?", because now almost everyone assumes that 
programming web sites in the cloud is the only kind of programming there is.

And all of that was built on the unquestioned assumption that firewalls 
are how we keep our computing safe.

Because everyone *loves* firewalls.


-kb, the Kent who remembers when firewalls were new, and he hated them 
then, too.