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by vhold 3696 days ago
Geezus he included the hostnames and IPs? This is so insanely irresponsible.
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Could be worse: http://www.insecam.org/
I'd argue it's responsible. Security through obscurity is no security at all.
Avoiding security through obscurity is a topic for people in the crypto industry. Random people with misconfigured VNC servers most likely aren't computer experts, and revealing their addresses is pointless and irresponsible. Yes, maybe making this information public will cause them to fix their configuration. More likely, they will just be attacked.