On 29.10.2007, at 08:32, Luis Martin wrote:
>
>>
>> Then gen2 system still only has 827 fingerprints compared to 1684 in
>> gen1. But the new system has better fingerprints, and for more
>> recent
>> and relevant system.
> That's a pretty good reason. Gen1 has much more signatures and more
> importantly, it has signatures for old systems. Those signatures
> are not
> likely to be submitted again and usually finding very old boxes and
> being able to identify them is quite interesting.
I would argue that old versions of Nmap are still available for
download. Nostalgic scans can still be performed with these. I don't
think that looking for old boxes is the main use case of Nmap.
just my 2 cents.
Diman
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