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Ask Fyodor Your Network Security Questions

Fyodor is the driving force behind Insecure.org and the top-rated Nmap network exploration and security auditing tool. He's also involved in The Honeynet Project (and is a coauthor of the project's book, Honeynet: Revealing the Security Tools, Tactics, and Motives of the Blackhat Community). One question per post, please. We'll run Fyodor's answers to 10 of the highest-moderated questions as soon as he gets them back to us.

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  1. Early Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This Early Post for my homies at RIT and Naz.

  2. 2nd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    post!!!!!!!

    Reason: Your comment looks too much like ascii art.Reason: Your comment looks too much like ascii art.Reason: Your comment looks too much like ascii art.Reason: Your comment looks too much like ascii art.

  3. another early post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Having gotten the fp i figured chaining would be cool

    MAUS MAUS MAUS

    In Sviet Russa Dave Linux knows everything about Dave

  4. ISR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia...

    Old joke tells Dave!

  5. yeat another by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1st and 3rd

    I Love Dave, He doesn't love me

    chain

  6. dupe? by palad1 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What will happen if Fyodor's smtp server coughs and sends his reply twice? Will we get the first Slashdot interview dupe?

    1. Re:dupe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What will happen if a giant flaming penis from Mars flies into your living-room, coughs, and sends juices all over you, drenching you from head to toe, twice? Will we get the first Slashdot flaming-penis jizz attack? Do we care?

    2. Re:dupe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That's hilarious! Thanks for the laugh.

  7. Username and password... by HowlinMad · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can I have your username and password?

  8. Boxers or briefs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    eom

  9. Re:NMap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hmm, I got caught once too. I had missed out the -p switch and it scanned lots of ports, rather than just the benign (web proxy) ones I had intended to choose.

    Any chance of making it more user friendly, Fyodor, so mistakes like that can't happen??

  10. CNN: . N. Korea claims new drink for techies/nerds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea, one of the world's poorest countries, claimed it has invented a drink to ease a health threat few outsiders would associate with the country: computer fatigue.

    Computers are a rarity among the communist country's hunger-stricken 22 million population. Visitors say the Internet is available only at a few hotels in the capital, Pyongyang.

    Still, North Korea's official KCNA news agency said last week that the drink, invented by the Institute of Plant Resources, was tested on computer users, and the "results show that the eye and mental strain has considerably been reduced."

    The drink, which ingredients have been extracted from "fruits of a tree," has a "good odor and sweet and sour taste," it said, without giving further details.

    Copyright 2003 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

    http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/05/12/offbeat .nkorea.drink.ap/index.html

  11. Re:ZAC'S HACKING ABILITIES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He needs a laser to cut his way out of a paper bag.

    Subject: BAD SANTA
    Comment: Maybe Santa should have thrown those kids some HOT GRITS

  12. News For Patriots, Stuff .... +1, Patriot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1. Where is Osama bin Laden?

    2. Where is Saddam Hussein?

    3. Where is President-Vice Cheney?

    4. Where are Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction"?

    Thanks in advance and cheers,
    W00t

    Get Your War On 24

  13. LAST POST! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Aproprops to MAUS, GABE, SANTA, and all my dead homiez at RIT and NAZZZ

  14. Re:Are you still hacking slashdot users? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am unfamiliar with the incident you describe. Can you please tell us more?

  15. Genuine fyodor quote after the incident by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Get used to it: spend your days bothering/harassing people, and eventually someone will bite back."

    Well now, fyodor really sounds quite hurt at this juncture. Considering that sdem had baited him and not "bothered" or "harassed" him, we can only come to the conclusion that fyodor is a complete crybaby.

  16. For the curious. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  17. No chance Taco will let this into the interview. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Malda wouldn't dare allow through any questions that might offend his precious interview subject, so all Fyodor is going to see are a bunch of ass-kissing questions, sad to say. If this question is still at +5 when the time comes to pick the question, I'd bet my life that Rob Malda does one of two things:

    1. Moderates it down, as often as neccessary to keep it down, a la The First Slashdot Troll Post Investigation, and remove moderator ability from everyone who moderated it up.

    2. Just leave it out of the interview, saying that ten of the other +5 questions were "better".

    Ah, Fascdot. Gotta love it.

  18. Re:Linux Booth Babe and Sdem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're correct, of course. What I meant to say is that the High Council, if it had existed, would have given the go-ahead for the hit on sdem. Since it doesn't exist, the point is moot, however.