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?"

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Re:What will the do next?

[InsertWittyNameHere]

"We're going to Disney Land!" - NMAP Team

Re:*sigh*

[SmlFreshwaterBuffalo]

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

Go into politics.

Alexa?

[societyofrobots]

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.

Re:Alexa?

[A beautiful mind]

I find that to be the case aswell. It's pretty funny how many people take Alexa seriously though. I had a journalist call me a liar based on Alexa's numbers, when I quoted a unique visitors / month number for a website that was based on both Google Analytics and independently audited logging.

Re:*sigh*

[swb]

I do, it's called "consulting".

/. Virgin

[by (1706743)]

Incidentally, just to the right of the Slashdot icon lives Virgin

A little too close to home for the /. crowd, methinks...

Re:*sigh*

[internic]

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

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

Total Perspective Vortex

[Target Practice]

"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...