Re: Nmap usage considered but rejected for Tron: Legacy

[Shinnok <admin () shinnok com>]

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On 04/06/2011 09:26 PM, Shinnok wrote:
> First of all, this kind of insight into the backstage as well as seeing
> Hollywood people that care about these kind of *politically correctness*
> regarding this field is pretty cool.
>
> On 04/06/2011 09:07 PM, Fyodor wrote:
> > Hi folks.  Perhaps last year's biggest geek film was Tron Legacy, and
> > special effects artist Josh Nimoy has finally received clearance to
> > talk about the work he did there.  Interestingly, he considered using
> > Nmap but decided that it didn't meet the needs of the character
> > involved (killing a process).
>
> Uhaa..that's a great chance for this GSoC for a project to turn Nmap
> into a killing beast that can scan for open *processes* on a machine,
> detect and identify processes and then have the ability to kill the
> rogue ones. Hurr up, there's only so little time till the GSoC
> application deadline. Hell, I think I will propose that too. :-)

We even have the matching name for it: *Nkill*.
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