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Re: [Full-disclosure] NSA tracking open source security tools

From: Jason Coombs (jasoncscience.org)
Date: Sat Feb 04 2006 - 16:23:10 CST


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?

Somebody tell the NSA they need to keep track of hash codes instead.

Regards,

Jason Coombs
jasoncscience.org
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