Re: HBGary planned to BLOW THE BALLS OFF OF NMAP!

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 01:45:31PM -0800, Fyodor wrote:
> From: Greg Hoglund <greg () hbgary com>
> To: shawn () hbgary com
[...]
> This scanner would not take us very long to write, and it would BLOW
> THE BALLS OFF OF NMAP.

I have good news, everyone!  Nmap's balls are safe because HBGary
seems to have gotten distracted from their Nmap-killing
"B.E.S.T. Scanner" idea and it morphed into some sort of plan to spawn
treasure chests in MMO video games.  I found Shawn's response to
Greg's ball-blowing proposal in the leaked emails:

[From http://hbgary.anonleaks.ch/greg_hbgary_com/2439.html]

From: "Shawn Bracken" <shawn () hbgary com>
To: "'Greg Hoglund'" <greg () hbgary com>
Subject: RE: Another project I want to IRAD / Skunk
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 10:08:50 -0700

Yeahhhh! I'd be totally down to do this. I've already had my brain
cranking on what elite networking code I could now write in the kernel
and I've always wanted to write a badass portscanner too. LFSR is
exactly what we'd want to use like you mentioned because it guarantees
the distribution is semi-random yet complete. I have a feeling once
you start your 10k MMO you're going to use LFSR a lot in your
procedural generation of worlds. (Ex: You could use LFSR to randomly
plot a treasure chest at literally *ANY* cords in your gameworld map,
and if you run this treasure chest spawning algorithim for long enough
it would eventually spawn the chest at every possible location
eventually LOL)

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