Interview with NMAP Creator Fyodor

An anonymous reader writes "Whitedust has an interview with Fyodor, creator of NMAP. The interview covers a broad range of topics from Fyodor's roots and motivations in the security world to his newer projects and even mentions Fyodor's forthcoming book on NMAP network scanning."

Roots and motivations?

[Capt'n Hector]

Could it be that the motivation was... root?

real sysadmins...

[weighn]

...forgo those fancy tools and port scan from Vim

Re:real sysadmins...

[bersl2]

...forgo those fancy tools and port scan from Emacs

Fixed that for you.

Obligatory

[Council]

I was going to ask what he thought of nmap porn [insecure.org], but then I realized the link I was using was from nmap's own site! Apparently they condone this sort of thing.

Come on, Fydor, admit it. Like most of us, you don't really care about coding, you just do it to get girls.

Smileys

[arch119]

WD> Have you ever been concerned that Nmap is used for blackhat purposes?
Fyodor> I doubt that Nmap has ever been used for blackhat purposes. OK, maybe once or twice :). But ...


....I just hope the WD guys didn't interview someone logged in to an IRC channel and claiming himself as being Fyodor.....

Re:Fyodor

[dirtsurfer]

This handle was partly inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky, who was perhaps the second greatest writer of all time.

With the first greatest writer being, of course, Mr. Anonymous Coward

Re:Fyodor

[Philip K Dickhead]

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
-- Dostoyevski

So, it seem Fyodor was trying to get out of jail(2) [freebsd.org] ?

Not safe for work alright...

[coma_bug]

She has the current working directory in $PATH.

Re:punny.

[BandwidthHog]

Done a little too much LDS?

Dude, a little bit of Mormon goes a *long* way.