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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. Re:*sigh* by SmlFreshwaterBuffalo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If only I could find a way to make money off other people's stupidity...

    Go into politics.

  2. Re:*sigh* by Kozar_The_Malignant · · Score: 3, Insightful

    *sigh* If only I could find a way to make money off other people's stupidity...

    Start a religion? I'm too honest, personally, but it's worked for others.

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    Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
  3. Re:*sigh* by internic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Start a religion? I'm too honest, personally, but it's worked for others.

    OTOH, sometimes it doesn't work out so well.

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    "You call it a new way of thinking; I call it regression to ignorance!" -- Operation Ivy