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Offline iago

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Nmap 4.50 released!
« on: December 13, 2007, 04:01:11 pm »
It's Nmap's 10-year anniversary (it was created in 1997), and the newest version, 4.50, has been released. It has TONS of changes and improvements, including a scripting system, a new gui, and a lot of other bells and whistles:
http://insecure.org/stf/Nmap-4.50-Release.html

I encourage you to download it and give it a try if you're into networking or security!

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Re: Nmap 4.50 released!
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2007, 07:08:37 pm »
About time. :)
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Re: Nmap 4.50 released!
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2007, 07:44:19 pm »
It looks good. :-o However, the OS detection has always been a bit off for me... for instance, I scanned my own winXP machine, and I got this result:

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wtf?  :o
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Re: Nmap 4.50 released!
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2007, 02:29:06 am »
Since when has nmap had a GUI?

Then again, I never actually installed X on a linux machine until a couple of years ago.
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Re: Nmap 4.50 released!
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2007, 08:27:49 am »
Nmap has had a variety of GUIs as long as I can remember, I guess you haven't paid much attention to it.
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Re: Nmap 4.50 released!
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2007, 07:28:32 pm »
Unless he's been using it in a shell all this time.
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Re: Nmap 4.50 released!
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2007, 07:35:25 pm »
in other words, he hasn't been paying much attention, which is what I said.

I've been semi-involved with the development (mostly beta testing), so I guess I've taken the interface for granted.
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Re: Nmap 4.50 released!
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2008, 02:35:18 pm »
I was raised to believe that real men don't need a GUI. Consequently, I'd never bothered with installing X until ubuntu came around, and it "just worked."
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Re: Nmap 4.50 released!
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2008, 02:46:14 pm »
I've never used the nmap gui myself, but I've been somewhat involved in its development, so I am constantly hearing about it. Thus, it struck me as odd that others wouldn't have.
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Re: Nmap 4.50 released!
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2008, 12:37:50 pm »
I looked at a couple of screenshots of it (zenmap) - looks like it's a very thin layer over the console utility. Aside from the pretty context coloring it does, are they any real features of the GUI?
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Re: Nmap 4.50 released!
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2008, 05:41:37 pm »
Quote from: Camel on January 05, 2008, 02:35:18 pm
I was raised to believe that real men don't need a GUI. Consequently, I'd never bothered with installing X until ubuntu came around, and it "just worked."
If real men don't need a GUI, real men are awfully stupid.  GUI is a pre-requisite to most desktop computing these days...can't really do any visualization, web surfing, movie watching, etc... without it.  I don't know who started this rumor about GUIs, but they are awfully stupid.
Even "newbie" distributions like Ubuntu/PC-BSD are becoming necessary because the learning curve to Unix requires an extraordinary amount of time.
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Re: Nmap 4.50 released!
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2008, 03:47:55 am »
In the day when I first started using linux, the only reason to install X was to play the open source version of Doom that someone had ported to Linux in their free time. Times have changed since then; I was stuck in my ways for a while, but I've come to appreciate Linux in the world of desktop communities. I'll always be a terminal junkie; I'm comfortable with the idea that the programs I invoke run in a location that is not "under my desk," but "in the room with the giant air conditioner," or sometimes "in another country." I suppose it comes with the territory, though: I work on a layer of infrastructure so deep in to the network that even the QA department doesn't directly evaluate my work. There's nothing to present graphically, and frankly, I prefer vim in a PuTTY window over gvim anyways.
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