Re: new iss stuff

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In message <9405101323.AA11070 () rwing UUCP> rwing!pat () ole cdac com (Pat
Myrto) writes:
> Its a good example of Security Thru Obscurity being alive and well.
> >                    INTERNET SECURITY SCANNER 2.0
> >         ISS 2.0 will not be distributed to the public directly because
> I take it that this means its a binary distribution only?
> Yeh, right.  In other words, if one is not a net.legend, working for
> CERT, knows a lot of the 'right' people, or running some site that is
> on the Fortune 500, etc, one is out of luck.  But sooner or later, the
> cracker crowd will get a copy if its any good.

Pat did not consider or include the following from the ISS announcement:
> For 45 Days, Beginning May 1st, there is a Special Introductory Price:
> For more information about features and price, please e-mail
>       iss () shadow net or cklaus () shadow net
> [ ... ]
> To help pay for the expenses of development of this product, there is a
> fee.  To get an old version, there is a copy for ftp at aql.gatech.edu.

Just because the package is not free, does not mean that it is not available
to everyone; cklaus is entitled to some remuneration for his work. Most good
things in life are not free. - Does the discussion of the price of security
products, or computers, belong on bugtraq?

Paul Szabo - System Manager   //        School of Mathematics and Statistics
szabo_p () maths su oz au        //   University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia