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I'm a former nmap core developer and even though I no longer actively contribute the project still is very close to my heart. It wasn't "revolutionary" at first, in that port scann…

The Stanford HPC team reported last year having sent more than 2PB to Google drive using Lustre/HSM. This was using the public API and the fact that gdrive is free for *.edu sites.…

Here is the paper: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/6596-dimensionality-reduction-o...

I appreciate naxsi for its ease of use and efficiency: https://github.com/nbs-system/naxsi

I would add "The Formation of the Scientific Mind" by Gaston Bachelard. This text analyses the nature of the mental patterns that prevent from making actual discoveries (what he ca…

nmap dev here. Nmap is already asynchronous, as you described multiple requests are multiplexed (cf select(2), epoll(7), kqueue/kevent depending on your platform...) The core diffe…

I don't get it, it seems to me that this fix is incorrect. It's pointless to check for such a signed integer overflow after it happened.

What's the point in having such a RAM/core ratio? By assigning 4 threads per core (which is fairly common to exploit manycore architectures) you don't even have 4Meg of memory per …

Nmap leverages that cool stuff for precise PHP version fingerprinting. See http://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/http-php-version.html