So when I scan a server and 666 happens to be open. Nmap will now report “doom” under the “Service” header?
Most people will get a chuckle, but I suspect laymen and even Christian zealots will throw a fit.
Like when a normal person gets an error on their screen and it prints “process closed: child killed by parent”. It will probably raise an eyebrow at the very least, lol.
As a devout Christian who enjoys games like Diablo and Doom, I wanted to offer a different perspective. All of my Christian developer friends (small pool but still large, at around 15 people), including myself, have no issues with tech terms like daemons, master/slave, or killing processes (esp. child processes). Many of us understand the context and humor in technical jargon. In my experience, it's often non-technical people rather than Christians who find these references odd. But then again, what non-technical people run nmap?
> but I suspect laymen and even Christian zealots will throw a fit.
No doubt.
I was once, back at university so two and a half decades ago, helping someone with accessing stuff on a Unix server (he was not much computer literate at all). He was ahem rather enthusiastically Christian, and unsettled by seeing 666, thinking we'd set it up and were having a jab at him (which, in fairness to his paranoia, some of us might have done).
Those files were on a shared resource so shouldn't have been world writable, or even group writable for that matter, so we did report it (the directory wasn't writeable to me, so I couldn't fix it for them), but not because of the concerns our devout compatriot had!
I think it’s easy to overestimate how thinly skinned most people really are because an exceptional complaint (that’s not easily dismissible) commands attention. (This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, insofar as it’s indicative of sympathy and sensitivity.)
If you're interested in getting WAY more detail on all of the aspects of that lawsuit, there was a truly amaazing and groundbreaking legal blog at the time called "Groklaw," run by a paralegal who was really great at breaking down every tiny move in the trial and contextualizing it to the larger battle. Was probably the start of my interest in following legal proceedings. She was so good at it that at one point SCO tried to depose her, believing that she was actually a front for IBM. The blog was sadly shut down in 2013 over privacy concerns, but it's still there, archived, although it probably isn't nearly as fun if you know the ending.
I forgot about this entirely. I remember it being a big fear, but I don't recall all the issues. I think there were even Distros that had versions accounting for what they didn't need from SCO.
No. It means that a case for the same incident cannot be filed again. When a case is dismissed without prejudice, it can be refiled if the plaintiff thinks they can make a better case at some future point.
The idea of globally assigning ports to specific things feels so retro. Back when the world was a lot smaller.
Today it still makes abundant sense for more generic concepts like where you do HTTP or SSH but to register them to specific companies is amusing and nostalgic.
In my RnD testing, when I just need an arbitrary port, 666 is my go to.
(a) It's almost never used by anything else and (b) <3 Doom
Unfortunately, I showed some software in a sprint demo once, using 666 as an arbitrary port. I was very clear that this port can be anything, because the software was made to be configurable by the user, and of course the project manager wrote it down and put it in the "official" and released documentation that the customer must use port 666. facepalm.
I wonder how many protocols/servers that are "officially registered" there are by now completely out of use (as in, truly not actively used by anyone on the planet).
And how many of the listed email addresses still work.
Well, it does about as much as say, when Congress names an Aircraft Carrier, or ISO some day publishes C++ 23 (probably later this year).
Concretely your Linux systems probably have a file named /etc/services which maps the string "doom" to port number 666, much as it maps "ssh" to 22 or "http" to 80.
"BTW, if you see your mom this weekend, be sure and tell her digital sataaaan!"[0] When this was first released, I wonder how digital it was back in 1990.
