Re: Installing Nmap on Cell phones.

[Ron <ron () skullsecurity net>]

> 1 - If an NMAP application were available for your smart
> phone, would you install it, and more importantly would you actually
> use it? Would you instead be more likely to use a laptop version when
> mobile? Is there maybe a specific subset of NMAP features that would
> be useful on a phone? 
Yes, it'd be awesome to have Nmap on my phone. :)

> 2 - Android applications run in a modified java
> virtual machine. In addition, many NMAP features require root access
> which isn't available to users of Android phones, with the exception
> of those phones that are unofficially 'rooted' or the Nexus 1 Dev
> phone. Based on those two limitations, I assume a substantial amount
> of code would have to be re-written to make NMAP useful on a phone,
> but I'm uncertain about the difficulty since I've never taken on a
> project like this before. Would this be a relatively easy project, or
> near impossible? Would making Nmap a user-space application on a
> phone be too much of a security concern?
Nmap doesn't require root for everything, it just requires it for certain things (os detection, syn scan, etc). You can 
do a lot of things (connect scan, software version detection, most scripts, etc) without root. 

> My apologies if my questions are a bit on the naive-side, and I
> welcome any comments or pointers to any additional resources. Thanks!
Asking questions is what the list is for. :)

> luke

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