Re: Installing Nmap on Cell phones.

[luke jeter <luke.jeter () gmail com>]

The timeliness of this thread is amazing! Over the past couple of days, I
was contemplating whether or not I wanted to try taking on a project to port
NMAP to the Android OS. I'm still a student and have a limited amount of
practical experience, so before comitting myself to something like this, I'd
welcome any feedback to my primary two concerns:
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?
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?

My apologies if my questions are a bit on the naive-side, and I welcome any
comments or pointers to any additional resources. Thanks!

luke

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Christopher Atanasopulo [John Doe] <
lugsam () gmail com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
> <buanzo () buanzo com ar> wrote:
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> > Nigel Norfolk wrote:
> > > Hi, I have been searcing the archives, looking for information on how to
> install Nmap onto my cell phone, so far without any luck.
> > I recall John (CCed) compiled it for the A1200 I think. I remember
> posting the link to his blog or
> > something like that. Feel free to ask him.
>
> Yep, Buanzo is right. I managed to build nmap for mi Motorola a1200.
> This phone runs an embedded linux system (Montavista Consumer
> Electronics Linux 3.1) very very stripped to the bone and a kernel
> highly customized by Motorola. There is no official SDK released by
> Motorola but I used an unofficial one called MKEzx (project is dead
> now, moved to OpenEmbedded which is more like a framework to build
> embedded distros).
>
> Anyway you want to build for Symbian target which is way far from my
> knowledge...
>
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