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Nmap Developers Release a Picture of the Web

Posted by Soulskill on from the pretty-pictures dept.

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?"

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  1. Trinity by by+(1706743) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Plus, Trinity uses Nmap. Who knows, maybe she used it to visualize The Matrix in her spare time?

  2. Re:Something's missing... by ZERO1ZERO · · Score: 3, Informative
    Online lookup : The icon is at (28.880, 2.373) and is 208 × 208 pixels.

    http://nmap.org/favicon/?q=slashdot.org

  3. Alexa? by societyofrobots · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.