Everyone knows that the human mind is pre-determined to read in sections of information. When reading a thread we expect to get a very short introduction to the context, followed by a thorough explanation of the issue at hand. Then we expect either a question to be raised or a summary to be presented. This is so that the human mind can process it adequately without reading back over the article. [End introduction to context]


Currently I am planning on making a blog, and am considering what order/format (shown by context above, avoiding re-reading) would be best for readers to find reading the articles "clear" (require minimal thought) and therefore make reading the blog most enjoyable to those interested in the niche. Assume that the people reading natively speak english, which allows the connotations and order of learning common from their grammar be consistent for discussion. [End thorough explanation]


What order do you expect?
I will provide, after a couple of replies, my opinion... hopefully this will become a good discussion that we can all benefit from. So please reply high quality with a lot of consideration. [End of question/summary]

This is just a basic TCP Port scanner that returns a list of the ports and whether or not they are open. It should run on any *nix system. Due to adding the import "sys/types.h", it will also run on legacy BSD systems which don't include the needed definitions in "sys/socket.h". It takes the IP to be scanned as the only argument when run from the command line.


#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netdb.h>


int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    int s, port;
    struct hostent *hostaddr;
    struct sockaddr_in servaddr;


    servaddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
    hostaddr = gethostbyname(argv[1]);


    for (port=0; port<=65535; port++)
    {
  s = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
  servaddr.sin_port = htons(port);


  if(connect(s, (struct sockaddr *) &servaddr, sizeof(servaddr)) == -1)
    printf("Port %d is closed\n", port);
  else
    printf("Port %d is open\n",port);
    close(s);
    }


    return 0;
}


I compiled it with gcc 4.2.1 and tested it on a mac.

So what is the question?

Personally I think malware should benefit the black hat with minimal damage to the victim. Otherwise it is as pointless as vandalism.

Java was chosen as I have used it before quite a bit and it is cross-platform. I haven't got much experience using C or C++. This will be my first full-scale desktop application so I will do it in Java. I think I will stick with Java for now, if the job I get wants me to work in another language I will learn that obviously. For now I will stick to what I have previously used until I get some experience.
Do you think I should make a debugger Kulverstukas, or should it be left for future possible improvements?

@area_13, have you tried "dr java"?

I am about to start coding my own IDE (as a learning experience) using Java. The IDE will only support Java (at least to begin with). I am not sure about the features I should include, please post below with any features you would like to see/use regularly in an IDE?

This is a list of the features I hope to implement so far:

• Auto-complete.
• Auto-generate main class on project creation.
• Code folding.
• Code generation (getter/setter).
• Compile returning errors.
• Find and replace keywords (and refactor class names etc)
• Highlight matching bracket.
• Project panel.
• Run able to kill it if needed.
• Syntax highlighting.

Thank you for reading, and thank you even more for all replies.

Future possible features:

• Debugger.

Documents:

• ProjectInitiation
  
  

Thank you Namespace7.
I'll follow your advice. I wont 'do anything stupid'. For the time being I am just trying to get learning resources (on a budget). so that I can program open source applications, currently trying to decide on the programming language I should specialize in (Computer Science graduate) and the field that I could be of most service to within open source.

All my devices are from Apple. this includes an iDevice, a laptop and a desktop. I use tor and plan on working on some black hat research to learn how the exploits work first hand, so that I can defend against them. I have read the sticky in this section and the two part tutorial on remaining anonymous. I was going to use wireshark to find this out but felt that still being rather amateur and not being specifically familiar with that tool I may miss most things.

• What data is being leaked from these devices?
• How do I turn disable data being leaked?

Thank you for reading.