Re: We're Watching You

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Forwarded from: Joshua Krage <jkrage () guisarme net>

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On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 04:17:46AM -0500, Justin Lundy wrote:

> Raytheon developed SilentRunner directly after a programmer named
> "bind" published his open-source "siphon" project on the Internet
> two years ago. The siphon software passively mapped networks (see
> where

Considering I was present at a functional demo of the pre-release
SilentRunner product well over two years ago, before the Siphon
presentation at Blackhat (for which I was also present) I find this
claim quite hard to believe.  Corporate products do not have same-day
development turnaround, especially on the then three-OS environment.
So the claim that SilentRunner stole the siphon concept to create a
corporate product is completely off-base.

> Having worked in the computer industry for a while, nothing sickens
> me more than a constant supply of low-quality, small-scope software
> that was written in a week and sells for rediculous amounts of
> money. If

While I cannot attest to the quality of the code, I do know it took
much more than a week to develop the core product.  The visualization
tools are quite interesting.  As to the price, I personally agree;
full Gigabit IDS deployments cost a fraction of a single SR sensor. :)



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