I don't get the analogy of the summary. It's like saying the deprecated code was never used in the first place. A better analogy is abandoned buildings, as they are the deprecated buildings. There are plenty of those around.

Also check out the Web Application Attack and Audit Framework at https://community.rapid7.com/community/w3af

That poor, poor child. My sympathies.

Bravo.

Sigh, no mod points. Good post.

I tried to find some info on the machines used for demolition but the search terms I used returns this slashdot page. Could you please elaborate?

I have been receiving very odd spam messages from people who have been on my MSN messenger list that contains just a link which redirects to a pill site domain (which doesn't load, I assume it is one of those brute force exploit pages). The from field on the email address is their display name on Facebook. I have received it from 3 people, 1 of which is a friend on Facebook, all of them are on my MSN contact list. One person on facebook swears I even sent him one, and I am pretty darn sure I am not infected with anything. Has anyone else been receiving them?