Does NerdTools perform penetration testing?
No. It performs bounded, read-only checks of public signals and selected public TCP services.
TRUST / METHODS + LIMITATIONS
NerdTools observes publicly reachable domain, DNS, email, web, TLS, IP, reputation, and network signals. The platform is designed to make those observations reproducible without presenting them as guarantees.
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Requests are normalized and resolved before execution. Private and reserved destinations are rejected, and redirect destinations are validated again before a supported tool follows them.
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A summary prioritizes selected findings from a time-bounded scan. Results can differ across resolvers, networks, edge locations, caches, providers, and time.
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Public scan summaries are cached for a limited period and only higher-coverage summaries are eligible for search indexing. Hidden scans and shared snapshots are excluded from indexing.
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No. It performs bounded, read-only checks of public signals and selected public TCP services.
Resolvers, geographic edges, caches, timing, trust stores, data sources, request headers, and parser behavior can all differ.
No. Compliance depends on scope, policy, evidence, operations, and controls that a public diagnostic cannot fully observe.