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Interview with NMAP Creator Fyodor

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the colored-hat dept.

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."

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  1. Best Fyodor quote by LarsWestergren · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the second Matrix film, Trinity uses nmap to find a vulnerability in an old SSH version that she then exploits. Probably the first realistic hacking depiction in a major film. Fyodor said something along the lines of
    "It was so awesome, my jaw dropped when I saw it in the theaters. A sexy woman uses my program. I think that means we are married."

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    Being bitter is drinking poison and hoping someone else will die

  2. Re:Fyodor by bobintetley · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This handle was partly inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky, who was perhaps the second greatest writer of all time.

    Don't know why (I have heard of the famous Fyodor), but I always assumed he picked it because when you say it out loud it sounds like "fire-door" :-)

  3. Re:Advance Chapter: Nmap Reference Guide by foorilious · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Hey Fyodor, I wrote reflscan, and I think it's pretty cool that you still mention it, especially since the version that got out was so crappy, and your scanner doesn't owe anything to it. Cheers.

  4. Thank you, NMAP-developer-like people. by Douglas+Simmons · · Score: 4, Interesting
    This article takes me back to my slackware days. People ask me how I learned what I know, and the answer is that back in the day I got my hands on nmap and other impressive tools and through wild guess and checking began to conceptualize the whole net thing. Well, to come clean, I'd give out free shells on IRC and ttysnoop other people running nmap to hack my box -- that's how I got started.

    My point is it didn't come from books, a class or even man pages (that's a given), but toolin' around with the tools epitomized by nmap. Seeing this article touched a nerve in me to say thanks as the readers of this, in my estimation, is a group most densely populated by people who coded wares that got me to wherever I am today, which apparently is a very low-level pron tycoon, who's all about the high res.

    Thanks.

  5. Re:Actual quote by antdude · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Heh, it was quite funny when I went to see the movie with a bunch of geeks who work for a well-known security company. Pretty much the whole theater busted laughing at that scene. It's just weird and cool. :)

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    Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
  6. Question by tomstdenis · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How do you write a book on NMAP?

    Is it how the networks operate and how NMAP plays with it? Or is this an NMAP manual? I mean it ain't exactly hard to use. I can't imagine a book on how to use NMAP being more than 50 pages or so...

    Of course I haven't read any TFA if there is one...

    Tom

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    Someday, I'll have a real sig.