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by dannyw 1828 days ago
Let me explain, I am not running any services on standard ports. You'd have to do a port scan and find one of the ports running a web service. But they're HTTPs (with unsigned personal certificate keys, mind you) and are password protected.

I still get so. many. random people entering passwords and trying to break in. They don't look like a wordlist or automated bots, they're literally people guessing.

Just because you see a username and password screen after you nmap this public IP, doesn't give you the right to start trying to hack it.

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You're making a normative argument; I'm making a positive one.

You ought not try random usernames/passwords on someone's public server, I agree. But if you expose a public server that lets someone type a username/password, you had best be ready for someone to guess values.