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Nmap Developers Release a Picture of the Web 125
iago-vL writes "The Nmap Project recently posted an awesome visualization of the top million site icons (favicons) on the Web, sized by relative popularity of sites. This project used the Nmap Scripting Engine, which is capable of performing discovery, vulnerability detection, and anything else you can imagine with lightning speed. We saw last month how an Nmap developer downloaded 170 million Facebook names, and this month it's a million favicons; I wonder what they'll do next?"
What will the do next? (Score:1)
I'd be willing to guess it will continue to be useless/pointless, yet headline grabbing scans.
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"We're going to Disney Land!" - NMAP Team
One thing developers like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take Fyodor to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. “Oh, no,” I said, “Disneyland burned down.” He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.
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There should be a detective show called "Johnny Monkey," because every week you could have a guy say "I ain't gonna get caught by no MONKEY," but then he would, and I don't think I'd ever get tired of that.
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Reminds me of the time Fyodor was over at the farm and he asked me what sex was. I said that instead of telling him what sex was, why don't I take him over to the horse pasture and show him? As we returned from the pasture, it was apparent that he had gained a valuable introduction to sex even though it did take him a few days to walk normally again.
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You and I seem to be the only ones who get the reference. Now I feel old.
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Where's my "+1 Deliciously Cruel" mod when I need it?
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Buy aother server?
Theirs is hosed.
Maybe they should run nmap on it?
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Sorry, my bad. I clicked the link to the 450MB source image they conveniently provided. Hmm maybe I should go with the scaled down version... only 123MB!
It's not like any other slashdotters are going to want those files. What could possibly go wrong?
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>:3 [bamsoftware.com]
proof (Score:2)
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What are you talking about? Several of those sites are porn sites.
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I love how LiveJasmine is one of the highest on the list... Who actually goes there, versus how many people end up there after getting redirected....
Agreed! I wasn't actually surprised to see them that high because I can personally attest to the insane number of times I have been redirected there.
Hey, I just happen to search for information on the Sweet 16 basketball tournament every other night...
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Maybe it's just not as concentrated? I don't think we really need a facebook of porn [github.com] when pretty much any idiot with a camera and a decent body can make their own website.
Trinity (Score:4, Informative)
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Was this a fan-film? Because as far I know, there were no sequels to The Matrix [xkcd.com].
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Was this a fan-film? Because as far I know, there were no sequels to The Matrix [xkcd.com].
Yup -- I think that fan also made Star Wars I, II and III. Surprised Lucas didn't issue a cease-and-desist [slashdot.org] order after the first one...
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I'm tired of this meme. There was nothing wrong with Matrix 2 and 3, except for being overly long (like Star Wars Return of the Sominex). The story would have worked better as a single movie.
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I'm tired of this meme. There was nothing wrong with Matrix 2 and 3, except for being overly long (like Star Wars Return of the Sominex). The story would have worked better as a single movie.
What are you talking about? The first movie hinted at a philosophy that moved beyond the metaphor of a computer generated virtual reality feeding off human power.
If you go back and watch the first one you can write so many fantastic endings that would have been consistent... In fact I was sure I had it figured out before the first movie's credits had rolled - that the matrix itself had been created as an incomplete structure that required the human element for continued viability, but also was instructed t
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>>>The first movie hinted at a philosophy that moved beyond the metaphor of a computer generated virtual reality feeding off human power.
No it didn't. Movie #1 was about real physical human beings having their minds trapped in the Matrix (a glorified Sims game), a few humans that had learned the truth and escaped from the game, plus one human that had the skill to rewrite the program at will (thereby giving him unlimited power in the game world). The end.
Anything else was something you pulled out
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Except that Matrix 3 was rubbish, and which had the hilarious `we're under attack so lets dance around like idiots to some crap music while some bad sex is performed elsewhere in the building` sequence.
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That was # 2 not 3, and the example you cite is why I said the two movies needed to be trimmed. Or else merged into one single 2 to 2.5 hour movie.
Try rewatching these movies but fast-forward through the dance scene and other un-necessary crap. You'll find it plays just as good as the first movie.
Better link. (Score:2)
http://nmap.org/movies.html [nmap.org] for the collection of movies including Trinity's scene. :)
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Gravatar? Seriously, never heard of them before today.
I presume its' there in no small part due to Wordpress' use. "Popular website" includes services. Note the high ranking for "double click", of which the average user has never heard and never visited intentionally.
PS- Pointing out your ignorance is pointless.
Adult web (Score:1)
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*sigh* (Score:1)
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If only I could find a way to make money off other people's stupidity...
Go into politics.
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*sigh* If only I could find a way to make money off other people's stupidity...
Start a religion? I'm too honest, personally, but it's worked for others.
Re:*sigh* (Score:5, Insightful)
OTOH, sometimes it doesn't work out so well [wikipedia.org].
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I do, it's called "consulting".
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Looks like the MyWebSearch people found a way.
Fyodor (Score:1)
IIRC the most important "Nmap developer" frequents slashdot quite a lot [slashdot.org].
Funny that there is no mention of him in the summary.
I wonder what they'll do next? (Score:1)
Alexa? (Score:5, Informative)
just an FYI: Its based on data from Alexa. Despite what Alexa claims, I find the results to be off by an order of magnitude from true traffic.
Re:Alexa? (Score:5, Interesting)
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/. Virgin (Score:5, Funny)
A little too close to home for the
Nmap Developers Release a Picture of the Web (Score:1)
All this data collected by Nmap isn't even a drop in the bucket compared to the ocean of data collected by Google and web advertisers.
Put your tinfoil hat back on and go watch Hackers.
Scope. (Score:4, Interesting)
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> with all the favicons stretching back into space
> until they're just indistinguishable dots.
Actually, this image doesn't even scratch the surface on that, because they cut it off at a mere million sites. The top million sites may account for most of the traffic, but it's a tiny fraction of the total number of actual sites (and I mean *actual* sites, not parked domains). There are fairly popular sites (as in, thousands of *regular* readers) th
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Slashdotted already? (Score:3, Funny)
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It's worst than that Jim, it's gone recursive!
Better icons (Score:1)
They should update their script to read the apple-touch-icon link tag, since it points to a considerably better quality icon than favicon.
The ico format supports better resolutions (Score:1)
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Considering they only really use the 16x16 icon in the file, its really retarded to say it supports 'better' formats. If you're putting anything other than a 16x16x256 icon in your favicon.ico then you're just wasting bandwidth, all other formats will be ignored anyway.
The .ICO format is while perfectly usable, still out of date and offers no advantage over other icon formats which use more sane image qualities like real transparency.
For a favicon, 16x16x256 is as high as you're ever going to use. No sens
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"I wonder what they'll do next?" (Score:2)
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That's an interesting idea: a diagram of the slashdotting effect as it unfolds. For example, a cause-link showing how a full GET queue melts the RAM, which then melts the bus, which gives the CPU nowhere to send data, and thus it melts, catching the case on fire, which melts the hard-drive casing, causing the spinning hard-drive platter to shoot out and thunk the poor sys admin in the nuts, turning him female, which results in management paying him less. Chart that, Nmap.
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Oh great. Now intel is going to market their SSD's claiming it protects they balls of sysadmins everywhere.
Won't someone think of the sysadmins?
Disclaimer: I love my SSD to teeny tiny bits, all 80 billion of them.
Missing information... (Score:3, Interesting)
coral cache here (Score:2)
And the big five are: (Score:2)
Google, Youtube, Facebook, Wikipedia, & Yahoo. No surprises.
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It seems that Yahoo and MSN are tied up (at least visually they're of the same size).
What I'm genuinely curious about is why is Microsoft website is so popular (the icon is as big as the one for Twitter)? I can understand MSN and Bing, but what are people doing browsing microsoft.com so much? I thought that maybe it's Hotmail, but no, it's got a different icon...
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Does msdn.microsoft.com share the same one (I'm too lazy to look) because thats pretty much the only site I visit EVERY day, looking up documentation for various things. I'm betting a lot of techies spend time on MS.com everyday for the same sort of thing.
Though, I doubt it should make that much of an impression compared to all the other non-techies out there.
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Both MSDN and TechNet have different icons. So far as I can see, the "M" icon is only used for the main site - various services underneath all have their own icons.
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I'd guess it's from automatic Windows updates.
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Bing, which has its own icon.
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Both have their own distinct favicons. Though maybe this tool specifically aggregates sites under the same top-level domain, and uses the same icon for all of them?
Actually, that's probably it. It would also explain why there's the Windows logo icon visible prominently (it's the favicon for title page of MS Live services), but not the (distinct) Hotmail.
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I'm continuously surprised that Yahoo is still around, somehow relevant, and popular.
Center (Score:1)
Once again the godfathers of porn show how much "Corleone" they are!
Total Perspective Vortex (Score:5, Funny)
"The company website is *down*", laments a snivelling luser on my way in through the door.
"Ah, is it, then? Excellent! I'll take care of it in my office." The luser unfortunately shadows me through the hallway, running through my RFID-secured doorway after I open it. My office is dimly lit, with one focus bulb shining on a poster behind my monitor. I sit at my terminal, browsing my e-mail while drinking my coffee.
"But the website..."
I sigh. Why do they seem most hopeful when I try to ignore them so thoroughly? I gesture to the illuminated poster hanging on my wall. It's a massive framed artwork from Nmap's team of the favicons of the web's most visited websites. Customized slightly, of course. Where our site sits at the farthest edge of the bottom left of the page, I have mounted a microscopic flag with the tiny words "You Are Here" written on it in gold.
There is silence as the luser peers at the poster. Then, I hear a small, soul-crushed whimper as he finds his grand company's place on the web, and hear him shuffle from the room, and my door softly close behind him. I grin. Sometimes, it's all too easy to crush souls on Monday mornings...
I would love a poster... (Score:2)
...if so many of the favicons didn't involve tits or sex-related imagery. Seriously, zoom in and scroll around. Absolutely fapulous... :S
SVG favicons, please! (Score:1, Insightful)
16x16 (or 32x32) favicons are really too ugly when zoomed in...
It really *IS* pretty useless. (Score:2)
Can they really sell this? (Score:2)
It presumably contains a lot of copyrighted images. Maybe its under fair-use/research?
Why is amazon.com so small? (Score:2, Insightful)
Murdoch Must Be Dismayed (Score:2)
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Because none of the content is published under "News LTD". It's published under 1000 different brands each too small to count but publishing the same stories. In the end, most stories end up coming from Rueters or AP.
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I noticed The New York Times.
No Fox News? (Score:1)
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CNN is bigger globally than Fox News,.I live in europe and was watching live coverage of Gulf War 1 on CNN via analogue satellite way back when
Yandex appears twice? (Score:1)
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I noticed that too. An aggregation error? If you look at the top 70 (or so) sites at the bottom the two are listed as:
Yandex 7 sites have a combined reach of 2.65%
Yandex 2 sites have a combined reach of 2.42%
What Will They Do Next? (Score:3, Funny)
What Will They Do Next? Anti-Aliasing
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ObXKCD (Score:2)
Missing popular sites.... (Score:1)
Can someone clarify? (Score:2)
Neuromancer (Score:2)
Re:Something's missing... (Score:4, Informative)
http://nmap.org/favicon/?q=slashdot.org [nmap.org]
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That page is nice.
Thanks!
I placed in my website's address, and to my amazement, there we are!!
The smallest of the possible favicons, yet there we are!
FTW!
I really, really feel proud of this.
We're part of Alexa's top 1,000,000 sites! =D
Much thanks to the NMAP team for this image!
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It can just be made out at the fully zoomed-out size. Below and to the right of Twitter, there is an orange and yellow icon. Directly to the right of that is a red square with a white intersection symbol ( an upside-down U or stylized lowercase n). Right underneath that is slashdot (below and a few pixels to the right).
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NSE isn't actually domain specific, it's the tried, tested, and fast Lua (with extensions to make it fit with the Nmap scanner). You get the speed of Nmap to find hosts/ports plus the NSE scripts backing it up to do deeper probes.
Wireshark, Snort, Nmap, and plenty of other tools use Lua for scripting, so it's a valuable language to learn. I recommend it!
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Wireshark, Snort, Nmap, and plenty of other tools use Lua for scripting
I was pleasantly surprised recently when I learned that VLC is also Lua-scriptable.