Re: Snort invented by the NSA?

[Martin Roesch <roesch () sourcefire com>]

Actually, I'm a *rogue NSA agent* with an *evil plan* to destroy 
capitalism as we know it by fostering the spread of open source 
software, all part of my nefarious plan to convert the USA to socialism 
(like all open source software people)!

I used to work for the government as a contractor (can't confirm or 
deny NSA affiliation) and Maryland DBED is a Sourcefire investor, maybe 
they got their wires crossed or something.  Last time I checked it was 
just me writing it originally, I think if you go back and look at the 
first release of Snort (still available on snort.org) you'd see that it 
wasn't especially good for much back in the early days...

     -Marty


On Jun 25, 2004, at 2:48 PM, Frank Knobbe wrote:

> 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
--
Martin Roesch - Founder/CTO, Sourcefire Inc. - (410)290-1616
Sourcefire: Intelligent Security Monitoring
roesch () sourcefire com - http://www.sourcefire.com
Snort: Open Source Network IDS - http://www.snort.org



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