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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?"
Plus, Trinity uses Nmap. Who knows, maybe she used it to visualize The Matrix in her spare time?
"We're going to Disney Land!" - NMAP Team
Sorry, my bad. I clicked the link to the 450MB source image they conveniently provided. Hmm maybe I should go with the scaled down version... only 123MB!
It's not like any other slashdotters are going to want those files. What could possibly go wrong?
If only I could find a way to make money off other people's stupidity...
Go into politics.
*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.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
http://nmap.org/favicon/?q=slashdot.org
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.
What are you talking about? Several of those sites are porn sites.
I do, it's called "consulting".
Incidentally, just to the right of the Slashdot icon lives Virgin
/. crowd, methinks...
A little too close to home for the
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.
...someone needs to add a dynamic "you are here" pointer...
The NSA: The only part of the US government that actually listens.
NSE isn't actually domain specific, it's the tried, tested, and fast Lua (with extensions to make it fit with the Nmap scanner). You get the speed of Nmap to find hosts/ports plus the NSE scripts backing it up to do deeper probes.
Wireshark, Snort, Nmap, and plenty of other tools use Lua for scripting, so it's a valuable language to learn. I recommend it!
http://www.skullsecurity.org/blog/
OTOH, sometimes it doesn't work out so well.
"You call it a new way of thinking; I call it regression to ignorance!" -- Operation Ivy
I love how LiveJasmine is one of the highest on the list... Who actually goes there, versus how many people end up there after getting redirected....
It seems that Yahoo and MSN are tied up (at least visually they're of the same size).
What I'm genuinely curious about is why is Microsoft website is so popular (the icon is as big as the one for Twitter)? I can understand MSN and Bing, but what are people doing browsing microsoft.com so much? I thought that maybe it's Hotmail, but no, it's got a different icon...
"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.
Considering they only really use the 16x16 icon in the file, its really retarded to say it supports 'better' formats. If you're putting anything other than a 16x16x256 icon in your favicon.ico then you're just wasting bandwidth, all other formats will be ignored anyway.
The .ICO format is while perfectly usable, still out of date and offers no advantage over other icon formats which use more sane image qualities like real transparency.
For a favicon, 16x16x256 is as high as you're ever going to use. No sense using more colors since there are only 256 pixels to work with, you get a custom color for each pixel ANYWAY at 16x16x256.
On the flipside, with png you have support for real transparency which icons do not have, so thats a bonus, but not enough of a bonus to justify using it since ... transparency is really a little silly for something that is invariable going to sit on a white background anyway (I don't care about the random nutjobs that with ridiculous color schemes on their machines, they've clearly got no taste or understanding about designing color schemes so theres no help for them anyway)
All in all, its kind of stupid to be arguing over which is 'better' for this particular case since both formats FAR exceed the requirements for the job. .ico wins because thats what everyone expects and theres no compelling reason to change it.
Apple wants higher quality because they use the 'icon' in more places than just the title bar and tiny lines on a 'bookmarks menu'. It turns into a much larger home screen icon if you add the bookmark to your home screen for instance.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
Actually, a significant number of the little favicons around the edges are naked boobs.
Does msdn.microsoft.com share the same one (I'm too lazy to look) because thats pretty much the only site I visit EVERY day, looking up documentation for various things. I'm betting a lot of techies spend time on MS.com everyday for the same sort of thing.
Though, I doubt it should make that much of an impression compared to all the other non-techies out there.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
Maybe it's just not as concentrated? I don't think we really need a facebook of porn when pretty much any idiot with a camera and a decent body can make their own website.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
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.
Gravatar? Seriously, never heard of them before today.
I presume its' there in no small part due to Wordpress' use. "Popular website" includes services. Note the high ranking for "double click", of which the average user has never heard and never visited intentionally.
PS- Pointing out your ignorance is pointless.
Reminds me of the time Fyodor was over at the farm and he asked me what sex was. I said that instead of telling him what sex was, why don't I take him over to the horse pasture and show him? As we returned from the pasture, it was apparent that he had gained a valuable introduction to sex even though it did take him a few days to walk normally again.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
What Will They Do Next? Anti-Aliasing
Except one big problem is that a site's favicon doesn't absolutely have to be .ico format. See the favicon Wikipedia article subsection on standardization and implementation and note that generally JPEGs, GIFs and PNGs can be used as well, which some browsers supporting GIF's and PNG's animated variant, and Opera even supporting SVG for favicon.
I'd guess it's from automatic Windows updates.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it