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Nmap Developers Release a Picture of the Web
iago-vL writes "The Nmap Project recently posted an awesome visualization of the top million site icons (favicons) on the Web, sized by relative popularity of sites. This project used the Nmap Scripting Engine, which is capable of performing discovery, vulnerability detection, and anything else you can imagine with lightning speed. We saw last month how an Nmap developer downloaded 170 million Facebook names, and this month it's a million favicons; I wonder what they'll do next?"
I'd be willing to guess it will continue to be useless/pointless, yet headline grabbing scans.
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Visual proof that there is not enough porn on the internet.
Plus, Trinity uses Nmap. Who knows, maybe she used it to visualize The Matrix in her spare time?
Seriously, never heard of them before today.
Top million site icons? can't be right if all are not pron favicons...
RGdot.com
"Firefox can't find the server at www.nmap.org."
Maybe nmap can find it.
Does anyone else find it even a little sad that MyWebSearch is ranked #73? Such an easy spyware to get rid of, yet people use it as a "legitimate search" toolbar. *sigh* If only I could find a way to make money off other people's stupidity...
IIRC the most important "Nmap developer" frequents slashdot quite a lot.
Funny that there is no mention of him in the summary.
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Where is the /. icon? Or are we just an overlooked minority? :(
Make their website handle slashdotting properly?
just an FYI: Its based on data from Alexa. Despite what Alexa claims, I find the results to be off by an order of magnitude from true traffic.
There's always the classic evil genius move; Taking over the world.
... and many kittens and unicorns are now dead. Sad, really.
if only they had used perl, python, or even just made it easier to script up with bash...
http://nmap.org.nyud.net/favicon/
works fine
Incidentally, just to the right of the Slashdot icon lives Virgin
/. crowd, methinks...
A little too close to home for the
All this data collected by Nmap isn't even a drop in the bucket compared to the ocean of data collected by Google and web advertisers.
Put your tinfoil hat back on and go watch Hackers.
I was really struck by this image, actually. It gives you a visual feel for how vast the net is, with all the favicons stretching back into space until they're just indistinguishable dots. And for those who complain about uselessness, download it and give it a go yourself! To get ranges, just use whois or a http://www.iana.org/numbers/ search on a relevant ip/hostname, and to map routing paths use the zenmap frontend - the radial visualization is great, but a bit slow for large numbers. You can also use the -oX option to output a scan in XML, and import it into zenmap later; zenmap also aggregates scans for you. The script scan engine is also geared towards penetration testing/exploitation, of course, but you can ignore "offensive" parts. Just remember to read the documentation, if you want to keep a low profile.
Emotions! In your brain!
I think the nmap.org icon just grew exponentially.
They should update their script to read the apple-touch-icon link tag, since it points to a considerably better quality icon than favicon.
oh ... I dunno, get slashdotted?
Slashdot, where armchair scientists get shouted down and armchair theologians get modded up.
...someone needs to add a dynamic "you are here" pointer...
The NSA: The only part of the US government that actually listens.
http://nmap.org.nyud.net/favicon/
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~drum roll~
Google, Youtube, Facebook, Wikipedia, & Yahoo. No surprises.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
The .ico format supports better resolutions in one file, so someone could have used better images.
Much better than a weird apple only tag.
Hey don't blame me, IANAB
Gotta love how "centered" and notably scaled are Xvideos and Redtube icons...
Once again the godfathers of porn show how much "Corleone" they are!
Which site is that to the left of the Nmap icon? :)
To the right of the NBC favicon are some boobies, but you have to zOOm in to see :D
http://nmap.org/movies.html for the collection of movies including Trinity's scene. :)
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"The company website is *down*", laments a snivelling luser on my way in through the door.
"Ah, is it, then? Excellent! I'll take care of it in my office." The luser unfortunately shadows me through the hallway, running through my RFID-secured doorway after I open it. My office is dimly lit, with one focus bulb shining on a poster behind my monitor. I sit at my terminal, browsing my e-mail while drinking my coffee.
"But the website..."
I sigh. Why do they seem most hopeful when I try to ignore them so thoroughly? I gesture to the illuminated poster hanging on my wall. It's a massive framed artwork from Nmap's team of the favicons of the web's most visited websites. Customized slightly, of course. Where our site sits at the farthest edge of the bottom left of the page, I have mounted a microscopic flag with the tiny words "You Are Here" written on it in gold.
There is silence as the luser peers at the poster. Then, I hear a small, soul-crushed whimper as he finds his grand company's place on the web, and hear him shuffle from the room, and my door softly close behind him. I grin. Sometimes, it's all too easy to crush souls on Monday mornings...
There's a 68.71% chance you're right.
...if so many of the favicons didn't involve tits or sex-related imagery. Seriously, zoom in and scroll around. Absolutely fapulous... :S
"Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded." -Archbishop Fulton Sheen
16x16 (or 32x32) favicons are really too ugly when zoomed in...
The format in which it is presented is not good for much of anything except showing off usage. They could have represented the data just as easily (and more usefully) by putting them all, as 16 x 16 graphics, in a matrix ordered by frequency.
After "Where's Wally/Waldo?" (UK/US), NMAP presents, "Where's my Favicon?" :-)
It presumably contains a lot of copyrighted images. Maybe its under fair-use/research?
The amazon icon is so small, it's hard to find. You need to zoom in. From the facebook icon look to the lower left for the white s on an orange square. Below that is a small red HT. Right below that at the right is amazon, a black a with an orange curved arrow under it.
Birth is the leading cause of death.
I cannot see the logo of any traditional media outlet in that display; no CNN, News Limited anything, no BBC etc.
Patent litigation: A doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction... in which everyone seems willing to push the button
Not that I'm a fan, but I was surprised to see that foxnews.com wasn't even in the list, but cnn.com was. I'm sure that the popularity of websites differs from that of their cable news shows, but I wouldn't have expected it to differ that much. The CNN icon is clearly visible and Fox doesn't even show up? I can't help but think that might be a mistake.
I wonder why Yandex (the icon with Cyrillic 'Ya' - mirrored R as in "Toys'R'Us") appears twice. There is no differentiation between them like e.g. between Yahoo Web Hosting and Yahoo Japan.
What Will They Do Next? Anti-Aliasing
Map of online communities. I have the poster on my wall. Too bad it's a bit out of date; after all, I can still see MySpace on there without a magnifying glass.
I once shot a man in Reno 'cause they cancelled Firefly.
Deviant Art, a site that is normally ranked near the other side of 100, currently 115 worldwide, is nowhere to be found. How accurate can this map be if it is missing such a popular site? Judging by the size of the ICQ.com icon, which is ranked in the 300s, it would be pretty damn hard to miss. They need to try again.
What is meant by "the sum of the reach of all sites using that icon"? Are they simply scaling icons based on Alexa rankings, or is there something more profound going on here that I'm missing? Six beers says it's the latter.
No "pornhub.com" favicon. /me says "failed survey".
It would have been cool if it was in 3D
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it