Re: NSA tracking open source security tools

[TheGesus <thegesus () gmail com>]

On 2/4/06, Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org> wrote:
> Of the recent U.S. political scandals, one of the most divisive is the
> issue of President Bush (IMHO illegally) authorizing the NSA to
> conduct warantless wiretaps on Americans' phone calls and emails.
> While I don't like the NSA tracking my phone calls, they are welcome
> to track Nmap release status.  And apparently they are doing so :).
> The latest (February 6) issue of Newsweek has a picture on page 39 of
> George Bush visiting the NSA headquarters in Fort Meade.  A wall-sized
> screen in the background displays the latest versions of our favorite
> open source security tools, including Nmap, Metasploit, Snort,
> Ethereal, Cain & Abel, and Kismet.  Nifty.  For those
> without the magazine, I have posted a pic at:
>
> http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap_inthenews.html#bush
>
> Maybe open source software really will take over the world :).

The NSA wrote libpcap in the first place.

Takes one to know one, I guess. :-)
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