There can be a door, but there is arguably no burglary or theft.
1. You drive to a random address(es), accessible from the public premises (IP).
2. You knock on the door (TCP SYN).
3. Someone comes and opens it for you (TCP SYN+ACK).
4. You ask what's here (VNC handshake).
5. You're told it's a power plant or doctor's office or whatever (VNC frame data).
6. Sometimes the replies aren't fun, sometimes it's really weird - some pal seems to be willing to control a nuclear reactor for you, no questions asked.
7. You blog about your experience, including a conversation transcript.
It could be wrong to publicly announce (step 7) that there's a weird person in there (with full address details) that can do anything for you, as this can put others in danger. It's ethically unclear: it requires a human review and judgment (a robot can't tell if it's weird, so if data collection is fully automatic and unsupervised it becomes complicated), and even for humans it's probably not completely wrong to disclose, if done responsibly.
But just driving by and knocking on the random doors asking what's there - it would be really weird to me if we'd say this is anything wrong with this.
1. You drive to a random address(es), accessible from the public premises (IP). 2. You knock on the door (TCP SYN). 3. Someone comes and opens it for you (TCP SYN+ACK). 4. You ask what's here (VNC handshake). 5. You're told it's a power plant or doctor's office or whatever (VNC frame data). 6. Sometimes the replies aren't fun, sometimes it's really weird - some pal seems to be willing to control a nuclear reactor for you, no questions asked. 7. You blog about your experience, including a conversation transcript.
It could be wrong to publicly announce (step 7) that there's a weird person in there (with full address details) that can do anything for you, as this can put others in danger. It's ethically unclear: it requires a human review and judgment (a robot can't tell if it's weird, so if data collection is fully automatic and unsupervised it becomes complicated), and even for humans it's probably not completely wrong to disclose, if done responsibly.
But just driving by and knocking on the random doors asking what's there - it would be really weird to me if we'd say this is anything wrong with this.