Merlin: One thing => At first you state that most sysadmins think that port scanners are a crackers tools, yet your latter post uses the word 'cool' to describe a 'crackers tool'. It seems slightly hypocritical to say that you don't want to see "...The Monastary to be ... as a place that harbors or supports warezkiddies and scriptkiddies", yet you are willing to support insecure.org's nmap. Aren't you supporting those 'kiddies' by trying to spread awareness of nmap (which is a very powerful tool). So is there any difference betwixt
/dev/null's writing of a portscanner or you advocating a powerful one?