Sydney Morning Herald: FBI Serves Subpoenas on Nmap Creator

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Sam Varghese
Nov 25, 2004

“The FBI has been seeking information from the creator of the
network security scanner, Nmap, about a particular attacker who
they think may have visited the nmap site at a given time.

“Nmap creator Fyodor said in a posting to the nmap-hackers
mailing list that no reasons had been given to him when he was
served with the subpoenas…”


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