IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

Thu Aug 29 07:59:30 UTC 2002

> > How can I recognize someone by doing a portscan?
>
> http://www.insecure.org/nmap
>
> It slices, it dices, it makes julienne fries.
>
> (I'm assuming you mean in the same sense as "you can identify a machine's
> vendor based on the EUI-64..." - neither a portscan or a MAC address will
> tell you who's machine it is, as far as I know (although doing an nmap to find
> ports that will tell you who it is... hmm... ;)

I am inclined to agree. I am pretty sure I will find out more about the
user with a portscan than I will by knowing the type of his NIC...

- kurtis -