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koolba on May 14, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: aws_public_ips, a tool to fetch all publi...

I understand what it's retrieving but what's the use case for this?

Listing out all your internet routable interfaces presumably to lock down the unintentional ones?

arkadiyt on May 14, 2018 [–]

It's for security teams to find infrastructure that shouldn't be exposed / put together a list of IPs for a network vulnerability scan / etc.

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