I Built a Terminal-Based WiFi & LAN Security Scanner in Go (NOVA)

The Terminal Needs More Security Tools 🛡️ If you spend most of your day in the terminal (shoutout to my fellow Neovim and Zsh users), switching to a heavy GUI just to check your network's security posture feels like a context switch you shouldn't have to make. When you want to know what devices are lurking on your local subnet, or if your nearby WiFi networks are leaking data via outdated encryption, the standard approach usually involves running raw nmap commands and parsing through walls of text. I wanted something faster, more visual, and entirely keyboard-driven. I wanted a tool that didn't just dump data, but actually analyzed it and gave me a risk score . So, I built NOVA (Network Observation & Vulnerability Analyzer). What is NOVA? 🌌 NOVA is a purely defensive security assessment tool written in Go. It wraps powerful underlying system utilities ( nmap and nmcli ) in a beautiful, interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI). Instead of parsing terminal vomit, NOVA gives you an organ