Washington Post article that mentions Nmap

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/18/heres-what-you-find-when-you-scan-the-entire-internet-in-an-hour/

They used a tool called ZMap [1,2] by some researchers in University
of Michigan:

"ZMap is an open-source network scanner that enables researchers to
easily perform Internet-wide network studies. With a single machine
and a well provisioned network uplink, ZMap is capable of performing a
complete scan of the IPv4 address space in under 45 minutes,
approaching the theoretical limit of gigabit Ethernet."

The comparison to Nmap ITFA is very unfair. Seems this just does a
simple 1 port scan of /0. EFF's 2-3 month scan [3] was on a 100Mb link
and scraped for SSL certificates.

[1] https://github.com/zmap/zmap
[2] https://zmap.io/
[3] https://www.eff.org/files/DefconSSLiverse.pdf‎

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Patrick Donnelly
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