To play on GE's paranoia of Russians. It was perfect given that the author had taken a Russian pseudonym.
Scenario: You were mistaken about the tool's author. You discovered your mistake via freepmail so instead of admitting you were wrong you instead say you're trying to trap GE.
Interesting, but I'll give you a bit of history. I heard of nmap long ago, and used it sometimes. I was never interested in the author. But I have been very closely following the SCO vs. IBM case for a long time (my history shows I posted in my first SCO thread here a week after I joined in 2003). In early 2004 the author pulled SCO's license to nmap due to SCO rejecting the GPL under which nmap is licensed (and which GE seems to think is inherently evil). After that I took interest in the author and have thought he's American since I first read a page at insecure.org. I have never seen writing from a Russian programmer that is so consistently, fluidly American. It would be hard to read everything there and even think he's a Russian programmer, it's just not plausible.
However, admitting to this scenario would have been tempting, as I could have just admitted a mistake instead of wading through all of these "lie" claims. Too bad I'm too honest to do that. I won't take your easy out.
Which this backs GEs assertion that you were defending Russian Hackers...why else would you claim it was a Russian hacker that wrote it?
Because GE is paranoid of Russians, and I was playing to his paranoia. Notice that the final revealing thread isn't even about Russian hackers, so there's no context there in which to defend Russians hackers.
since it's pretty much just a trivia question anyway.
A question that one with GE's claimed monumental amount of knowledge in the appropriate areas would get.
You mean my rightful concern of hackers from Russia who are pirating Apple's software. As oposed to your support and defense of their criminal behavior, of course.
WTF!!!??? You're too honest so you had to lie? Whatever...