Big deal, writing assembly doesn't make you a genius nor a security expert.
Maybe not to a pro like yourself, but to guys like me who barely survived Assembly Language class by the skin of his teeth, it's most impressive.

Steve held the opinion that "stealth" (no reply) was better than "closed" (reply that the port is closed). I personally made an effort to show to him that it really didn't matter as there are always ways to tell if a host is up or not.
Yeah, I used to hold to his whole "stealth ports" thing until some of you guys around here started teaching me otherwise. I'm very curious to learn how you proved that some day...