Friday, May 23, 2003

Seeing your work on the screen

In tonight's installment, a young coder unexpectantly sees his own code used on the big screen. Funny!




From: Fyodor [mailto:fyodor@insecure.org]
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 5:17 AM
To: nmap-hackers@insecure.org
Subject: Whoa!


Hi Everyone. There is a disturbance in the force! You may recall a couple weeks ago that MS started recommending Nmap on some of their web pages. That was strange, but I did not foresee the anomalous omens that would ensue.

Like almost any self-respecting geek, I bought tickets to
'Matrix: Reloaded' several weeks back (no spoilers, I promise). After all, who can resist the combination of philosophical mind games and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) in that tight leather bodysuit?

So after waiting an hour in a line snaking out of the theatre to the parking lot, I finally got in to my 10pm Wednesday showing. All was going well until Trinity needed to do some hacking. Oh, no! I was sure we'd see a silly "Hackers"-esque 3D animated "hacking scene". Not so! Trinity is as smart as she is seductive! She whips out Nmap (!!!), scans her target, finds 22/tcp open, and proceeds with an

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