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Passwords Can Sit on Hard Disks for Years
CygnusXII writes ""As people spend more time on the web and hackers become more sophisticated, the dangers of storing personal information on computers are growing by the day, security experts say. There are some obvious safeguards, such as never allowing your computer to store your passwords. But even that is no guarantee of security." "
A Brain scan of every living person on earth?! Brilliant!
root@kerryforprez>nmap -sB -vv george.w.bush -D dick.cheney, donald.rumsfeld
Starting nmap V. 3.60 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Host george.w.bush (bonging420.whitehouse.gov) appears to be down, or doesn't have a brain. If you know the host is up, or you think the host doesn't have a brain try -B0
root@kerryforprez>nmap -sB -vv george.w.bush -D dick.cheney, donald.rumsfeld -B0
Starting nmap V. 3.60 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Host george.w.bush (bonging420.whitehouse.gov) appears to be up, good. Beginning brain scan.
(bonging420.whitehouse.gov); Class: Incremental
Interesting ports on bonging420.whitehouse.gov:
(The 65531 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
Port State Service
21/tcp open ftp
25/tcp open smtp
1027/tcp open IIS
5000/tcp open uPnP
5631/tcp open pcanywheredata
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 2594.472 seconds
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.