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Britain's MI6 Opens Its First Website
An anonymous reader wites "Britain's spy agency the Secret Intelligence Service, known popularly as MI6, has opened its first website. While much about the agency is still not public, the website has information on service history and career opportunities for would-be spies. This rare peek at the real group popularized by the James Bond series brought over 3.5 million visits in its first few opening hours on Wednesday."
Boy, the intelligence at this website increases with age...
Running nmap I detected that the Site might be running on an Microsoft Xbox running Debian Linux 2.4.20 (90%), here is the complet result, and *yes* they have only port 80/tcp open, just in case -:) Starting nmap 3.70 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-10-16 21:34 CDT Warning: OS detection will be MUCH less reliable because we did not find at least 1 open and 1 closed TCP port Interesting ports on www.mi6.gov.uk (194.61.189.14): (The 1659 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered) PORT STATE SERVICE 80/tcp open http Device type: general purpose|broadband router|router Running (JUST GUESSING) : Linux 2.4.X|2.6.X|2.5.X (95%), Siemens embedded (90%), Conexant embedded (89%), Draytek embedded (89%), FreeSCO Linux 2.0.X (89%) Aggressive OS guesses: Linux 2.4.16 - 2.4.18 (95%), Linux 2.4.18 - 2.4.20 (x86) (95%), Linux 2.6.0-test5 x86 (95%), Siemens Speedstream 2602 DSL/Cable router (90%), Microsoft Xbox running Debian Linux 2.4.20 (90%), Conexant ADSL Router (89%), Draytek Vigor 2200e DSL router v2.1b (89%), FreeSCO 0.27 (Linux 2.0.38) (89%), Linux 2.2.16 (89%), Linux 2.4.18 (x86) (89%) No exact OS matches for host (test conditions non-ideal). Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 68.875 seconds