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Re: NSA tracking open source security tools
From: Mike Hoye <mhoye () neon polkaroo net>
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 17:46:56 -0500
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 11:23:10AM +1300, Jason Coombs wrote:
Fyodor wrote: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.The NSA must have learned information security tricks from Microsoft. Who in their right mind would focus their attention on software version numbers and think that makes for better security?
Or, alternatively, it was just a quickly ginned-up background made to look "high-tech" for the President's visit. Yeah, it's stupid to have version numbers scrolling by on the screen as useful information, but it's even dumber to think that the NSA would put live, or even important, data on the screen during a freaking photo op, with the press all over the place. -- "After a while, the hanged man will become motionless and his gallows will oscillate as if its fulcrum were the hanged man." - Mario Salvadori, Columbia University, 1984. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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- Re: NSA tracking open source security tools, (continued)
- Re: NSA tracking open source security tools A . L . M . Buxey (Feb 04)
- Re: NSA tracking open source security tools Jason Coombs (Feb 04)
- Re: NSA tracking open source security tools Jim Popovitch (Feb 04)
- Re: NSA tracking open source security tools Slythers Bro (Feb 04)
- Re: NSA tracking open source security tools A . L . M . Buxey (Feb 04)
- Re: NSA tracking open source security tools TheGesus (Feb 04)
- Re: NSA tracking open source security tools Arias Hung (Feb 06)
- Re: NSA tracking open source security tools TheGesus (Feb 08)
- Re: NSA tracking open source security tools Leif Ericksen (Feb 05)
- Re: NSA tracking open source security tools Mike Hoye (Feb 04)
- RE: NSA tracking open source security tools Mike (Feb 04)
- RE: Re: NSA tracking open source security tools Very Unprivate (Feb 06)
- Re: Re: NSA tracking open source security tools Dave Korn (Feb 06)