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No! I do NOT try to authenticate with username/ password! The only exception to that is for FTP, where I try to do an anonymous/anonymous connection (identical to what Firefox etc. do). I put a lot of effort into making the crawling as benign and unobtrusive as possible, so I definitely do NOT try to brute force devices.



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