Re: bleeding nessus [was: Re: Funny note here on a worm]

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

> Hi Gadi,

Hi John, long time. How have you been?

> Regarding Tenable squashing websites that host plugins, I'm not sure
> that you can show that.  I didn't become a Tenable employee until late
> 2003, and I had around 100 plugins up on my website before that time
> (2000 - 2003).  Even after becoming employed by Tenable, I was never
> asked to remove plugins...in fact, before now it was never even
> mentioned...
> google for
> inurl:(nessus|nasl|plugin) filetype:nasl -site:nessus.org
>
> As far as Tenable controlling what is and isn't released, that's just
> good Quality Control...it wasn't like every submitted plugin was
> automatically thrown into CVS before Tenable came along. I'm a Tenable
> employee and I've had checks rejected because they weren't up to snuff
> wrt the QA group.  It's a *good* thing (for the community and the plugin
> writer) to have a QA team test plugins for false positives, speed,
> accuracy, destructiveness, etc.

Most of my points are true for after the license change. Regardless,
this is becoming too inflammatory (much because of me being annoyed and
wanting to correct the world, quite misguided) and it's time to go back
on-topic and talk tech.

> Which plugin was that?

I'll reply privately later on when I get a minute, ping me if I forget?
1 AM.

        Gadi.
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