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Re: Nessus - open or closed source?
From: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson () treachery net>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 08:03:04 -0800 (PST)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, brandon.steili () gmail com wrote:
Sounds about right. Here's a link: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/101305-nessus.html
Quoting from the article: "We want to bring Nessus to a larger audience, so Nessus 3.0 is going to be closed source, Gula said. If its not open source, a lot of government agencies and enterprises can use it, where before they wouldnt."This is absolute nonsense. Many government agencies and private enterprises with clued IT security folks already use Nessus and have for quite some time. In this move, all Tenable has ultimately done is pervert Nessus into a latter-day ISS clone.
This shift toward commercialized closed-source silliness renders any use of Nessus untenable* in my book. I will no more recommend its future use than I would ISS.
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- Re: Nessus - open or closed source?, (continued)
- Re: Nessus - open or closed source? PasswordFinder (Nov 04)
- Re: Nessus - open or closed source? leonardo (Nov 04)
- Re: Nessus - open or closed source? Joachim Schipper (Nov 04)
- Re: Nessus - open or closed source? Giancarlo Razzolini (Nov 05)
- RE: Nessus - open or closed source? Juan Carlos Reyes Muñoz (Nov 06)
- Re: Nessus - open or closed source? Giancarlo Razzolini (Nov 05)
- Re: Nessus - open or closed source? Alex Bihlmaier (Nov 05)
- Re: Nessus - open or closed source? S.A.B.R.O. Net Security (Nov 06)
- Re: Nessus - open or closed source? Robert BARABAS (Nov 05)
- Re: Nessus - open or closed source? King Fuddler (Nov 05)
- Re: Nessus - open or closed source? brandon . steili (Nov 04)
- Re: Nessus - open or closed source? Jay D. Dyson (Nov 05)
- Re: Nessus - open or closed source? Justin . Ross (Nov 07)
- Re: Nessus - open or closed source? Justin Ferguson (Nov 07)
- Re: Nessus - open or closed source? crazy frog crazy frog (Nov 08)
- Re: Nessus - open or closed source? Javier Fernandez-Sanguino (Nov 08)
- Re: Nessus - open or closed source? Stefano Zanero (Nov 08)
- Re: Nessus - open or closed source? Jay D. Dyson (Nov 05)
- RE: Nessus - open or closed source? Jason Baeder (Nov 09)