Most popular...



...security tools?



Pete's blog - linked at right - pointed me to Insecure's Top 75 Security Tools list. No surprises... ethereal, snort, nessus, tcpdump, hping2 are all in the top ten. L0phtcrack - which once would have made the top 10 - has dropped a bit since it's "gone commercial".



...web sites?



A thread on JOS points out that if you do a Google search on "www", the results are the most popular web sites... Google Search: www. However, I think that the results are really "the most inlinked" web sites. Witness Real.com at #11. I have no reason to believe that Real is the 11th most popular site on the web. But it might be the 11th "most inlinked" site, given that so many sites provided content that can only be delivered to RealPlayer-equipped systems.



If Dick Vitale was a hacker...



Typical Announcer: "Strickland resets the offense..."

Hacker Dick: "Strickland REBOOTS the offense, babee!"



TA: "Leach blocks Davis' shot..."

HD: "Leach says ACCESS DENIED to Davis!"



TA: "Kline picks off the pass intended for Hill..."

HD: "Kline ISSUES AN INTERRUPT on Hill's toss!"



TA: "Wright drains a long three..."

HD: "Wright's writes three thousand lines... AND IT COMPILES FIRST TIME!"



TA: "Brown can't inbound the ball in five seconds... turnover..."

HD: "Brown EXCEEDS HIS QUANTUM and it's Indiana's ball, babee!"



TA: "Wright picks Hill's pocket..."

HD: "Wright EXPLOITS HILL'S VULNERABILITY!"



TA: "Ewing converts a dunk at the other end..."

HD: "Ewing EXECUTES A FLUSH COMMAND right in Davis' face!"