Security Research Is Not a Crime
It was around 2000. I was running Legion across entire Class B ranges, watching open Windows shares scroll up the screen faster than I could read them. C$. ADMIN$. Whole NT4 boxes answering null sessions like a door with no lock and a welcome mat on the floor. You didn’t need a password. You needed curiosity and a free afternoon. The Microsoft of that era had no Patch Tuesday. No Security Response Center worth the name. Security was a feature request that lost to the ship date, every quarter, on purpose. The company that today runs one of the most disciplined vulnerability programs on the planet once shipped operating systems to hospitals and banks with the equivalent of the front door propped open. ...