Re: Snort invented by the NSA?

[Frank Knobbe <frank () knobbe us>]

On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 13:08, Keith W. McCammon wrote:
> I'll be brief: I just came across an article on Gazette.com stating that 
> the NSA invented Snort.  My original DC SUG post/thread can be found at 
> http://tinyurl.com/2t7gy.  The Gazette article (directly) can be found 
> at http://tinyurl.com/273qh


I knew it! Marty is just a front-man for the NSA. Actually, all Snort
developers are spooks. Brian is from the CIA. He earned his nickname
Cuts-well during special ops, and later adopted it to Caswell...

... Where is my tin-foil hat?


But seriously... perhaps they meant to say Shadow instead of Snort.
AFAIR, it was co-developed by the NSA, and it's an IDS. Both start with
an S, so maybe they got confused :)

Cheers,
Frank

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