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Re: [PEN-TEST] War Dialers
From: Alfred Huger <ah () SECURITYFOCUS COM>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:11:06 -0700
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Jose Nazario wrote:
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Alfred Huger wrote:Anyone have any experiance with commercial war dialing packages compared to the free ones?they mentioned Ton-Loc but only in passing -- hasn't been updated since 1994, wasn't very robust
Well, it was written in pascal and if it was to be released again I suspect it would need a re-write.
and the author served 5 months in jail for
There were two authors and the one you are referring to did *alot* more than 5 months in prison on more than one occasion. That being said if you make decisions on security software usage based on wether it's written by ex-hackers your choices are going to be *very* limited.
their tests were judged on carrier and fax detection, system id, penetration (via authentication), reporting and "intangibles" like ease of use (subjective, to say the least).
Yeh, ease of use is always a killer. Getting your product reviewed as a vendor is a crap shoot. I rarely put much credence into the reviews. I have taken part in reviews where my products won out where they should not have and vice versa. All too often reviewers are simply not qaulified to make reviews worth reading and in other cases scores are based on really subjective data. I much prefer forums like this where I can get feedback from people who have actually used the software outside of a lab.
and let's not forget the PalmOS wardialer TBA (from the L0pht's Palm Pilot labs).
I have never actually used this, is it decent? -al Alfred Huger VP of Engineering SecurityFocus.com
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- Re: [PEN-TEST] War Dialers Alfred Huger (Sep 01)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] War Dialers Teicher, Mark (Sep 02)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] War Dialers Alfred Huger (Sep 01)
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- Re: [PEN-TEST] War Dialers Teicher, Mark (Sep 01)
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- Re: [PEN-TEST] War Dialers Teicher, Mark (Sep 02)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] War Dialers Jose Nazario (Sep 01)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] War Dialers - Sorry Wrong URL Manny Fernandez (Sep 02)