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Submission + - Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account (seclists.org) 2

Submitted by vivaoporto on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @05:31AM

vivaoporto writes: Gordon Lyon (better known as Fyodor, author of nmap and maintainer of the internet security resource sites insecure.org, nmap.org, seclists.org, and sectools.org) warns on the nmap development mailing list that the Sourceforge Nmap account was hijacked from him.

According to him the old Nmap project page (located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nmap/, screenshot) was changed to a blank page and its contents were moved to a new page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/nmap.mirror/, screenshot) which controlled by sf-editor1 and sf-editor3, in pattern mirroring the much discussed the takeover of GIMP-Win page discussed last week on Ars Technica, IT World and eventually this week Slashdot.

That happens after Sourceforge promises to stop "presenting third party offers for unmaintained SourceForge projects. At this time, we present third party offers only with a few projects where it is explicitly approved by the project developer, or if the project is already bundling third party offers."

To their credit Fyodor states that "So far they seem to be providing just the official Nmap files (as long as you don't click on the fake download buttons) and we haven't caught them trojaning Nmap the way they did with GIMP" but reiterates "that you should only download Nmap from our official SSL Nmap site: https://nmap.org/download.html"

Comment Re:The perfect is the enemy of the good. (Score 1) 331

by ncr100 on Saturday August 03, 2013 @05:00PM (#44466885) Attached to: Why PBS Won't Do Android

Because having a poor experience results in poor engagement which results in a less than compelling reason to access all the publicly-funded PBS content. In short, because it wastes an opportunity.

Lots of individuals and organizations can make a good mobile app.

Comment Re:It's a huge issue to app developers, not Google (Score 1) 211

by ncr100 on Wednesday June 02, 2010 @11:55AM (#32432700) Attached to: Android Compatibility and Fragmentation

Reddit picked up on this thread here http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cal37/comment_on_slashdot_detailing_the_so_called/

Fallout 3 Gets Leaked, Goes Gold 249

Posted by Soulskill on Monday October 13, 2008 @02:42PM from the sorry-about-your-luck dept.

Fallout 3 is due to be released in a few weeks, and Bethesda recently announced that all versions of the game have gone gold. They provided the systems specs for the PC release as well. Unfortunately for them, the Xbox 360 version was leaked onto torrent sites almost three weeks early. Bethesda is "looking into" how the game was distributed. In preparation for the launch, game director Todd Howard spoke at length with Gamasutra about the scope of the project, and the differences from their previous games, such as Oblivion. CrispyGamer recently ran a three-part series detailing their four hours of hands-on time with the game. We've previously looked at some gameplay videos for Fallout 3, and discussed the fact that no mod tools will ship with the game.

Comment This is a joke, right? (Score 1) 778

by ncr100 on Thursday July 03, 2008 @11:02AM (#24044293) Attached to: YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom

April fools or something? A judge rules the invasion of privacy as "speculative"?

This is invasion of my privacy.

I don't want Viacom to have my YouTube history. This is awful news.

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