lanmaster53
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5 years ago Thanks for reaching out.
I understand your concern. I'd be irritated if someone released software with what appeared to be my code and didn't provide attribution. However, in this case, I can assure you it is a coincidence, if anything.
I don't do OSINT as a part of my business, and haven't done it as a professional for years. I only maintain Recon-ng as a duty to the community, and because I love to write code. I literally have no idea what other tools exist for OSINT because I simply do not do it. So, not to say that it isn't a great tool, but I've never heard of sn0int.
I likely won't go look at the code, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are similarities. There are only so many ways you can integrate external modularity into a command line tool. I'm not sure if you follow me on Twitter, but it would have been mighty bold and dishonest of me to tweet this last week if I knew there was another tool already doing, AND I had copied it.
Once again, I appreciate your concern. I never hold back credit where it is due, but in this case, it simply isn't. I hope you understand.
hello!
congrats on the new release, really happy to see recon-ng is back. Not sure you've noticed, but I've been working on a modern reinterpretation of recon-ng in the meantime called sn0int.
One of the core features is the registry I've introduced in late 2018 as an attempt to prevent one of the issues recon-ng ran into before the projects (temporary) inactivity.
The new marketplace feature in recon-ng looks very similar and the documentation also reads slightly similar to mine so I'm wondering if some of the ideas have been borrowed from my project.
If that's the case that's awesome and I'd appreciate if you could credit sn0int as an inspiration.
Thanks <3