RE: Nmap Online

["Shain Singh" <shain.singh () aapt com au>]

Sean Swayze wrote:
> I concur with Craig. Making nmap available through a publicly  
> available service
> can only allow for two or three things:
>
> 1. Increase the exposure of innocent networks to 
> vulnerability scanning.

<snip>

> Any security personnel or pen-testers that are out there that can't  
> configure nmap,
> or won't aren't worth the effort of providing this free service for.  

Valid points, but this list is not only for 'those in the know' but also for
people who may be still in their infancy stage with tools such as nmap.
Also, does this mean that anyone wishing to offer a free webmail service
should abstain because of their well meaning intentions having potential for
being abused for generating spam?

I don't necessarily advocate a bunch of sites sprouting with online scanning
tools, but having them around is not necessarily a bad thing. Stopping abuse
of a tools is not mitigated by "making it easier" to use I believe - if you
don't do it, someone else will anyways. If anything the fact that a site
like that has been posted to this list it gives administrators the option of
taking extra measures for the said domain/netblock.


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