Nmap 3.50 Acknowledgements, 3.50-TEST2, and IronGeek's Zaurus Security Tools

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

Hello everyone,

I am happy to report that the Nmap 3.50 release has been quite
successful.  I didn't send the full announcement here since I had
already sent an early release notice to you guys.  But one part of the
big announcements I do want to sent here is the acknowledgments
section.  Nmap 3.50 would not have been possible without all of the
little (and big) contributions people have made.  I would
particularly like th thank the following nmap-hackers for improvements
since 3.00:

  A. Jones
  Albert Chin-A-Young
  Alex Volkov
  Al Smith
  Amy Hennings
  Andy Lutomirski
  Annalee Newitz
  Axel Krauth
  Axel Nennker
  Ayamura
  Kikuchi
  Blue Boar
  Brian Hatch
  Chad Loder
  Crayden Mantelium
  Curt
  Wilson
  Darren Reed
  Dean Bennett
  Diego Casorran
  Dmitry V. Levin
  Dragos Ruiu
  Dug Song
  Eric S. Raymond
  Fejed
  Florin Andrei
  Frank Berger
  Fyodor Yarochkin
  Gabriel L. Somlo
  Gisle Vanem
  Guido van Rooij
  HellNBack
  HD Moore
  Hubert Feyrer
  Jan Roger Wilkens
  Jari Ruusu
  Jaroslav Sladek
  Javier Kohen
  Jay Freeman (Saurik)
  Jeff Nathan
  jerickson_at_inphonic
  Jochen Erwied
  Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
  Juho Schultz
  Justin A.
  Kevin Davis
  Kirby Kuehl
  Kronos
  Lance Spitzner
  Lionel CONS
  MadHat
  Maik Pfeil
  Marc Ruef
  Mario Manno
  Marius Strobl
  Martin Kluge
  Matt Burnett
  Matthieu Verbert
  Matt Selsky
  Max Schubert
  Max Vision
  Michael Davis
  Mikael Mannstrom
  Miscelerious Options
  Mugz
  Niels Heinen
  Osamah Abuoun
  Peter Marschall
  Petter Reinholdtsen
  Phix
  Pope_at_undersec
  Przemek Galczewski
  R. Anderson
  Rain.Forest.Puppy
  ray_at_24hoursecurity
  Remi Denis-Courmont
  Rob Foehl
  Russel Miller
  Ryan Lowe
  Scott Egbert
  Sebastien Blanchet
  Seth Master
  Shawn Wallis
  Simple Nomad
  Solar Designer
  Solar Eclipse
  Ste Jones
  Stephen Bishop
  Tammy Rathbun
  Tom Duffy
  Tom Rune Flo
  van Hauser
  Wei Jiang
  William McVey
  Will Saxon
  Yeti

And of course I would also like to thank the thousands of people who
have submitted OS and service/version fingerprints, as well as
everyone who has found and reported bugs or suggested features.

By the way, if you are having trouble with 3.50, I have posted an
informal 3.50-TEST2 release (source only).  See
http://seclists.org/lists/nmap-dev/2004/Jan-Mar/0127.html for the URLs.

The huge spike in bandwidth last month made me think the 3.50 release
proved extraordinarily popular!  Then I remembered posting that HaXXXor
thing :).  The traffic on www.insecure.org (not including
download.insecure or images.insecure) went from 2.5 gigabytes on
February 17th to 239 gigabytes on the 18th.  It is now well into the
terabytes and counting.  Sheesh!  Maybe I'm not quite alone in
harboring a port scanning fetish :).  One nmap-hacker contributed this (I
don't know if she wants credit, so I'll leave it anonymous):

   <voice="low, breathy"> "Hi there. I'm a lonesome little system
   with a fast processor and and a high-bandwidth connection, running unsecured
   Red Hat just naked, right out of the box... not even a firewall
   between you and me, big boy... I'm just lying here with my ports wide
   open waiting for *you*, baby, oooh... I want you to probe me... use
   me...  spew packets *all over* me..." </voice>

Now I've ensured that this mail (like the last one) will get rejected
by hundreds of corporate mail filters [shrug].  In totally different
news, I am working on a section about Nmap on PDAs for my upcoming
book.  In the process, I found this very valuable site:

IronGeek's Zaurus Security Tools Page: http://www.irongeek.com/all.php

On this page, Adrian explains how to install and use many security
tools (including special directions for Nmap 3.50) on the Sharp Zaurus
handheld.  This includes Wellenreiter, Kismet, Zethereal, Nemesis and
more.  Good stuff!

Cheers,
Fyodor

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