Re: Reliability of signatures

[Martin Roesch <roesch () sourcefire com>]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Jim Hranicky <jfh () ufl edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 09:13:12 -0600
> Martin Holste <mcholste () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > > Seems like there'd almost need to be a central place that various
> > > entities could report their findings. I know we've got rules that we
> > > rely on heavily and work very well for us, but other than mailing lists
> > > there's no place to report our findings.
> >
> > Hm, you mean like a vote up/down system like StackOverflow.com?  That
> > could be really interesting.  It would be very valuable to see what
> > others are finding to be helpful.
>
> Sure, something like that - that would actually be very cool.

I like that idea too.  It'd make a lot of sense to integrate it into
snort.org - in fact there's probably a lot of data about Snort
detection performance, config options and rule quality we could put up
there.  Communication favors the defender...

Marty

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