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Interview with NMAP Creator Fyodor
An anonymous reader writes "Whitedust has an interview with Fyodor, creator of NMAP. The interview covers a broad range of topics from Fyodor's roots and motivations in the security world to his newer projects and even mentions Fyodor's forthcoming book on NMAP network scanning."
Could it be that the motivation was... root?
Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti?
Africus aut Europaeus?
...forgo those fancy tools and port scan from Vim
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I was going to ask what he thought of nmap porn, but then I realized the link I was using was from nmap's own site! Apparently they condone this sort of thing.
Come on, Fydor, admit it. Like most of us, you don't really care about coding, you just do it to get girls.
xkcd.com - a webcomic of mathematics, love, and language.
WD> Have you ever been concerned that Nmap is used for blackhat purposes? :). But ...
....I just hope the WD guys didn't interview someone logged in to an IRC channel and claiming himself as being Fyodor.....
Fyodor> I doubt that Nmap has ever been used for blackhat purposes. OK, maybe once or twice
This handle was partly inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky, who was perhaps the second greatest writer of all time.
With the first greatest writer being, of course, Mr. Anonymous Coward
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
-- Dostoyevski
So, it seem Fyodor was trying to get out of jail(2) ?
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
She has the current working directory in $PATH.
Done a little too much LDS?
Dude, a little bit of Mormon goes a *long* way.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?