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Hacking tool reportedly draws FBI subpoenas
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-11-24

The author of the popular freeware hacking tool Nmap warned users this week that FBI agents are increasingly seeking access to information from the server logs of his download site, insecure.org.

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OK, guys, I know most of you don't like the FBI but they are just trying to do their job. Even worse the article exagirates the info a lot (in general I like Kevin's articles though). The first part of the article shouts how bad it is and then the second part says "less than half-a-dozen" - are you kidding me why is the word dozen used at all why didn't he just say 3-5 requests (divided by 11 months)... no more comments

Also talking about getting the logs. In the beggining of the article the reader can assume they want all the logs... well later: "in a very short window of time, such as a five minute period" OK, let's assume 5 requests from the FBI multiply by 5 minutes => 25 minutes. OK the year has 525600 minutes 25 minutes is about a fraction of a percent...

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