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Nmap Author Receives FBI Subpoenas

Posted by timothy on from the mens-rea dept.

spafbnerf writes "Fyodor, author of the open-source network scanning tool Nmap, posted a story to the nmap-hackers list about having received a number of subpoenas from the FBI this year, demanding webserver log data, none of which produced anything, either because they sought old information that had already been deleted from his logs, or because the subpoenas were improperly served. In every case the request was narrowly crafted, usually directed at finding out who visited the site in a very short window of time, such as a five minute period. Fyodor writes: "If they see that an attacker ran the command "wget http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-3.77.t gz" from a compromised host, they assume that she might have obtained that URL by visiting the Nmap download page from her home computer"." Update: 11/25 20:21 GMT by T : Reader kv9 adds a link to Kevin Poulson's story at SecurityFocus.

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  1. what they want at the end by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is to learn how to use the program, they grew tired of waiting their 14 years 31337 h0xor to play doom 3 for them prosecute somebody.

  2. Re:Valid investigation techniques? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    > Just my $0.02US

    Which is worth about $150 Canadian...

  3. Another unexplored angle by master_meio · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I want to sniff some ASS-PANTIES!!!!11

  4. At last! by c0p0n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know the date of Thanksgivin Day!!! - 10^10 movies speaking about that freakin' day and no one informed me.



    PS: I'm spanish

    --

    Your head a splode
  5. Re:Fatuous Sexism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As a linguist, I'm generally against prescribed language usage, but this pronoun problem has got to go, folks.

    The only reason an unknown person isn't referred to as "it" is that we can't stand the thought of a person being referred to with the same pronoun we use for objects and animals. If we're going to try to deliberately change the language, "it" is the most appropriate choice.

    Now, "he" as a neutral term has some historical significance, but with the lack of common knowledge of grammatical gender in English, substitutes are being sought.

    "He/she" was used for a while until we realized how awkward and contrived it is. So at the moment, many people simply alternate between using "he" and "she", and some just use "she" altogether because it keeps the feminists happy.

    Some have suggested creating a new pronoun, "E" (and several variants). This also stinks of language manipulation, and probably won't work.

  6. Re:Reasonable by SoSueMe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm using my imagination to arrive at a place where your spelling of the word anywhere would be correct.