Massscanning the Internet - Defcon 22 (2014)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as evidence that scanning the whole IPv4 address space is trivial and takes only minutes to hours.
What it is
A DEF CON 22 panel with Rob Graham, Paul McMillan and Dan Tentler on the quirks of scanning the entire internet with masscan. They discuss how fast IPv4 can be scanned and what the results reveal.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2014 to 2019.
What Hacker News said
Cites sysk · 2014-12 · on “Scans of North Korean IP Space”
As a side note, I recently learned that it was possible to scan the whole Internet in a few hours on a regular connection: [this video]
Cites phatfish · 2015-06 · on “Vnc-roulette – Randomly connects to open VNC servers”
These guys will tell you: [this video] It is trivial to scan the whole ipv4 address space. I think the guys in this video did it in 40mins or so while presenting.
Cites kayfox · 2019-09 · on “Show HN: Enter your URL and view CVEs affecting your stack over last 6 months”
That's probably the DEFCON talk the parent poster is talking about: Massscanning the Internet - Defcon 22 (2014) [this video]