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Comment by inigyou

2 months ago

Scrapers and port scanners are mostly entirely separate activities. If you don't have any unexpected open ports you have nothing to fear from a port scanner, and blocking them won't stop you from getting attacked by scrapers.

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BLKNSLVR  2 months ago

The platform from which they launch their activities may be shared though.

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