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Re: new iss stuff
From: root () maths su oz au (root () maths su oz au)
Date: Wed, 11 May 94 07:47:30 +1000
In message <9405101323.AA11070 () rwing UUCP> rwing!pat () ole cdac com (Pat Myrto) writes:
Its a good example of Security Thru Obscurity being alive and well.INTERNET SECURITY SCANNER 2.0 ISS 2.0 will not be distributed to the public directly becauseI take it that this means its a binary distribution only? Yeh, right. In other words, if one is not a net.legend, working for CERT, knows a lot of the 'right' people, or running some site that is on the Fortune 500, etc, one is out of luck. But sooner or later, the cracker crowd will get a copy if its any good.
Pat did not consider or include the following from the ISS announcement:
For 45 Days, Beginning May 1st, there is a Special Introductory Price: For more information about features and price, please e-mail iss () shadow net or cklaus () shadow net [ ... ] To help pay for the expenses of development of this product, there is a fee. To get an old version, there is a copy for ftp at aql.gatech.edu.
Just because the package is not free, does not mean that it is not available to everyone; cklaus is entitled to some remuneration for his work. Most good things in life are not free. - Does the discussion of the price of security products, or computers, belong on bugtraq? Paul Szabo - System Manager // School of Mathematics and Statistics szabo_p () maths su oz au // University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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