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RE: Professionalism
From: "Sheahan, Paul (PCLN-NW)" <Paul.Sheahan () priceline com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 18:14:50 -0500
I totally agree.....a professional look and feel "out of the box" would definitely help a product like this get more immediate acceptance in the corporate world. If management gets a first impression that Snort or any other open source software is being maintained by a bunch of people who aren't serious due to little remarks like this (which you would never see in the a commercial package), they will hesitate to bring it into a corporate environment. I would love to see the open source world really take off and overcome the Microsoft monster, and professionalism out of the box would be a good place to start if the developers are serious about competing with the commercial apps. Just my 2 cents..... -----Original Message----- From: Joe Smith [mailto:shadowm4n () yahoo com] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 5:39 PM To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Professionalism Nothing quite like stirring the hornet's nest... Based on many of the responses I've received, I get the impression my point has been missed and/or I didn't state it clearly enough. My agenda is simple: make open-source more commonplace in the corporate environment. It's the same goal that many in the open source community share, because it's the only way to displace the current OS/Application monarch, Mr. Bill Gates. Many in the corporate world have a very negative opinion of open source precisely because of what I stated earlier regarding the unprofessional nature of open source. They will claim that the code is "untrustworthy". This doesn't mean it doesn't work (or can be configured to work). It doesn't mean that the programmers are untrustworthy. Once again, it isn't the impropriety that's the problem, it's the appearance of impropriety. The negative stigma will stay as long as this sort of thing crops up. Yes, I realize its idiotic for a VP to disqualify a product only because of lubrication references, but it does happen and it makes my job (ya know, intrusion detection and all that fun stuff) that much more difficult. Yes, its free. Yes, the classification.config file can be sed/grepped to do exactly what you want. And yes, its the best thing out there (its superior to every IDS I've tested, commercial or non). All I'm asking is for snort to make an effort to present a more professional appearance so that corporate acceptance is the default, not the exception. Mike --- Gordon Ewasiuk <gewasiuk () gnmc net> wrote:
On Today, Phil Wood wrote:Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:08:47 -0700 From: Phil Wood <cpw () lanl gov> To: Joe Smith <shadowm4n () yahoo com> Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Professionalism On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 09:54:31AM -0800, Joe Smithwrote:To the administrators of SNORT, An excerpt from "classification.config" from themostrecent snort rules download.One thing that has not been over stated since theinception ofthe "classification.config" file is the following: As a snort administrator/installer you shouldedit classification.configto suit the policies of your organization. Atthe same time, you shouldreview the rules which you are including in yoursnort.conf file forappropriateness, and to verify theirclassification in relation to thechanges you made to the classification.configfile. You should not useeither the classification.config or rules out ofthe box. To do so,is a dereliction of duty.Damn. People get a commerical-grade IDS FOR FREE and are bitching about a simple pr0n rule? Whoa. WTF? Hellooooo. If you are that "offended" by SNORT, don't use it. Go out and pay tens of thousands of dollars for some crap from McAfee, Cisco, or whoever. If not, and you enjoy the many, many features and benefits offered by SNORT, *FOR FREE*, then edit the rule and go about your business. -Gordo -------------------------------------------------- Gordon Ewasiuk, Certifed Sun Fanatic, Winstar VHC The REAL office number is here-----> 703.893.4901 Read the story about the #1 Unix Platform http://www.sun.com/software/cover/2001-1106 ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe:
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Current thread:
- Re: Professionalism, (continued)
- Re: Professionalism Ralf Hildebrandt (Nov 13)
- Re: Professionalism Joe Smith (Nov 14)
- RE: Professionalism Paul D. Shaffer (Nov 13)
- RE: Professionalism Christopher C. Northrop (Nov 14)
- Re: Professionalism Edwin Eefting (Nov 15)
- RE: Professionalism David Kurtz (Nov 13)
- RE: Professionalism Petriz, Pablo (Nov 13)
- Re: RE: Professionalism Mark Price (Nov 13)
- Re: RE: Professionalism Martin Forest (Nov 13)
- Re: RE: Professionalism Mike Poor (Nov 14)
- RE: Professionalism Sheahan, Paul (PCLN-NW) (Nov 13)
- RE: Professionalism Erek Adams (Nov 13)
- RE: Professionalism Dragos Ruiu (Nov 13)
- RE: Professionalism Erek Adams (Nov 13)
- RE: Professionalism David Kurtz (Nov 13)
- RE: Professionalism Robert D. Hughes (Nov 13)
- RE: Professionalism Abe L. Getchell (Nov 13)
- Re: Professionalism Ralf Hildebrandt (Nov 13)
- Re: Professionalism Roberto Suarez Soto (Nov 14)
- snort database diagrams? Edwin Eefting (Nov 14)
- Re: snort database diagrams? Roberto Suarez Soto (Nov 14)
- Re[2]: snort database diagrams? Edwin Eefting (Nov 14)