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RE: [OT] Recreating nmap
From: "Dominick, David" <David.Dominick () delta com>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:04:51 -0500
can yall try to please reply to the list and not to the individuals? If you have to hit reply all, can you at least delete the name of the sender. 2 Reasons for this. 1) you are sending 2 copies to the people you replay all to, and 2) it makes it hard to filter this on a sent to list. -----Original Message----- From: Seymour, Keith [mailto:KESeymour () magellanhealth com] Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 1:01 PM To: 'Gary Stewart'; nmap-dev () insecure org Subject: RE: [OT] Recreating nmap I believe that it would be very difficult to re-write nmap, but who would try? Personally I work in computers because I'm lazy. If a program gets deleted accidentally I don't rewrite it, I restore it from a backup tape. How would someone propose to remove all of the copies of nmap that exist? Even if a government decided to write a worm to find and delete nmap installs / binaries / source code how could it find all the copies? On backup tape, hard drives, diskettes, CD-ROMS. I have to go with Dan on this one - can't be done. "Contrary to the popular belief that it's hard to recover information, it's actually starting to appear that it's very hard to remove something even if you want to." - Dan Farmer Keith -----Original Message----- From: Gary Stewart [mailto:gis () staffmail ed ac uk] Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 12:12 PM To: nmap-dev () insecure org Subject: [OT] Recreating nmap First of, my apologies for joining this list only to start of by posting an off topic discussion. I am required to hold a debate as part of my course at university. The debate I decided to go for is a discussion on the European Union discussing the banning of such tools as nmap. Though I think such a legislation would be foolish, hypothetically, assuming not only Europe but the whole world followed suite my question would be: Do you, as developers, think you would be able to recreate nmap or a reduced version of it from memory? Of course attempting to stop distribution of scanning programs won't be easy and really it is going to harm system admins more than people who are going to use it to break into systems, but that's really for my report to address. Thanks for any help, Gary --------------------------------------------------------------------- For help using this (nmap-dev) mailing list, send a blank email to nmap-dev-help () insecure org . List run by ezmlm-idx (www.ezmlm.org). --------------------------------------------------------------------- For help using this (nmap-dev) mailing list, send a blank email to nmap-dev-help () insecure org . List run by ezmlm-idx (www.ezmlm.org). --------------------------------------------------------------------- For help using this (nmap-dev) mailing list, send a blank email to nmap-dev-help () insecure org . List run by ezmlm-idx (www.ezmlm.org).
Current thread:
- [OT] Recreating nmap Gary Stewart (Nov 25)
- Re: [OT] Recreating nmap William McVey (Nov 25)
- Re: [OT] Recreating nmap Carlos Friacas (Nov 25)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: [OT] Recreating nmap Seymour, Keith (Nov 25)
- RE: [OT] Recreating nmap Dominick, David (Nov 25)
- Re: [OT] Recreating nmap Bo Cato (Nov 25)