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Flavio's Techno Talk: Security: Passive Fingerprinting with p0f

Jul 04, 2005, 13:00 (0 Talkback[s])
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"Knowledge is the keystone of security. In information security, literally 'what you don't know can hurt you.'

"P0f is a passive fingerprinting tool that offers interesting possibilities for gathering information about other systems, without generating any traffic at all (unlike active port scanners ala Nmap)..."

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