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.)
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.