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Son of SATAN? Weighing Security Software's Risks

Posted by timothy on from the guns-don't-kill-people dept.

ryanr writes "Rob Lemos put out an article on the new metasploit relese. The article reminds me of the furor over the original SATAN being released. H.D. Moore, who wrote it, rightly points out that there are commercial tools that do it better, and it's known that the kiddies have copies of those. Why pick on the open-source tool? I think Rob is being a bit provocative." Despite the headline ("Security tool more harmful than helpful?"), the article is actually pretty balanced.

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  1. SATAN -> SAINT by stonebeat.org · · Score: 5, Funny

    The common wisdom in the security world is that easy-to-use scripts to circumvent security--called "exploits"--are a threat to the Internet.
    The Metasploit Project and its founder, HD Moore, hope to change that perception.

    I thought changing the name from SATAN to SAINT, fixed that perception. I mean, how many attackers wanna use a tool called "SAINT", no matter how good it is.

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  2. Re:Metadupe by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 4, Funny

    Its too bad we can't moderate editors as being -1 Redundant

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  3. Many insightful comments... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please read my comments which I posted here. Thanks! :)

  4. For the /. crowd by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · · Score: 5, Funny
    the original SATAN being released

    When was Bill Gates Arrested?

    1. Re:For the /. crowd by Mateito · · Score: 5, Funny
      When was Bill Gates Arrested?

      1977

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  5. Re:SATAN runs FreeBSD by platypibri · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought us Mac users were the "religious zelots", and Bill Gates was the devil. Now you are telling me Windows is the blessed OS, and I'm a tool of SATAN? I'm going to have to take a course on the theology of computing to keep this all straight.

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  6. Re:Its Simple... by Mateito · · Score: 4, Funny

    If security scanning tools are outlawed, only outlaws will have security scanning tools...

    Somehow, Dirty Harry with a pirate copies of Nmap and Satan strapped to each side of his belt just doesn't have the same testostorone rating.

    But maybe they could rename Satan to "Clint".

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  7. Re:Its Simple... by Lancer · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know what you're thinking... did he launch 5 TCP XMAS scans, or 6. Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. So you've got to ask yourself a question: do you feel lucky? Well do you, punk?

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