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Strobe

Strobe (The Super Optimized TCP Port Surveyor) is a TCP port scanner that logs all open ports on a given machine. Strobe is fast (its author claims that an entire small country can be scanned within a reasonable period of time).

The key feature of Strobe is that it can quickly identify what services are being run on a given target (so quickly, in fact, that it takes less than 30 seconds to pin down a server, even with a 28.8 modem connection to the Internet). The key drawback of Strobe is that such information is limited. At best, a Strobe attack provides the cracker with a rough guideline, a map of what services can be attacked.

Typical output from a Strobe scan looks like this:

localhost   echo     7/tcp Echo [95,JBP]
localhost   discard  9/tcp Discard [94,JBP]
localhost   systat   11/tcp Active Users [89,JBP]
localhost   daytime  13/tcp Daytime [93,JBP]
localhost   netstat  15/tcp Netstat
localhost   chargen  19/tcp Character Generator [92,JBP]
localhost   ftp      21/tcp File Transfer [Control] [96,JBP]
localhost   telnet   23/tcp Telnet [112,JBP]
localhost   smtp     25/tcp Simple Mail Transfer [102,JBP]
localhost   time     37/tcp Time [108,JBP]
localhost   finger   79/tcp Finger [52,KLH]
localhost   pop3     0/tcp Post Office Protocol-Version 3 122
localhost   sunrpc  111/tcp SUN Remote Procedure Call [DXG]
localhost   auth    113/tcp Authentication Service [130,MCSJ]
localhost   nntp    119/tcp Network News Transfer Protocol 65,PL4

As you can see, the information is purely diagnostic in character (for example, there are no probes for particular holes). However, Strobe makes up for this with extensive command-line options. For example, in scanning hosts with large numbers of assigned ports, you can disable all duplicate port descriptions. (Only the first definition is printed.) Other amenities include

     Command-line option to specify starting and ending ports
     Command-line option to specify time after which a scan will terminate
     if it receives no response from a port or host
     Command-line option to specify the number of sockets to use
     Command-line option to specify a file from which Strobe will take its target hosts

Combining all these options produces a very controllable and configurable scan. Strobe generally comes as a tarred and g’zipped file. Contained within that distribution is a full man page and the binary.

     Cross Reference: You can find a copy of Strobe, authored by Julian
     Assange (released 1995), at
     http://sunsite.kth.se/Linux/system/Network/admin/.

http://web.textfiles.com/ezines/UHA/uha1-3.txt

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/48237

To: declan () well com
Subject: UK terrorism bill is a true terror itself
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 03:38:35 -0800
From: John Gilmore <gnu () toad com>

From: “Rop Gonggrijp” <rop () xs4all nl>
Subject: FW: STATE OF TERROR
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:26:36 +0100

Executive summary: Personal note, followed by interesting and maybe slightly alarming update on new anti-terrorism legislation in the UK. (I guess it’s only alarming if you weren’t previously aware of the level of erosion of basic human rights over there).

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The weird thing is that I’m discovering that I am no longer angry at any of these developments. I mostly find them hilarious, even though that disturbs me a bit…

Slashdot today reports that Janet Reno wants to institute a ‘global network’ to fight computer crime. It’ll probably cost a few billion dollars, but then ‘problems of different jurisdictions’ (such as the horrible fact that many countries are still effectively outside US jurisdiction) will finally be solved. Damn… At this speed, they’ll be busting Napster users (“copyright terrorists”?) and script kiddies (“corporate website terrorists”?) within a few years. The people that reverse engineered the DVD copy protection will get life sentences. Invest in the prison industry today, it’s a major growth market…

In the days of Hack-Tic we’ve had many fun but practical discussions extrapolating the political developments of that time. I’m sure many people that were watching events back then have this same feeling of deja-vue I’m having. Except this time it’s an IRL remake of our crazy paranoid fantasies.

Rop

More: http://seclists.org/politech/2000/Jan/28

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/01/21/an-apple-ipad-for-china-unicom/