Son of SATAN? Weighing Security Software's Risks

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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did you think of searching for the article title?

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on slashdot? maybe?

it was here already.

GNAA Health Benefits

[Anonymous Coward]

Recent studies by the New England Journal of Medicine show a definite gain in health upon joining the GNAA.

"We were able to live a more healthy, natural lifestyle after joining the GNAA support group" one member was quoted as saying, "My previous relationship had been quite unhealthy, so I joined the GNAA and was set straight again."

Through their unorthodox methods, they actually "gross" people out at the gay lifestyle, causing them to turn around to a more natural sexual lifestyle. While gay people should have all the same rights, just as smokers should have the same rights as others. However, homosexuality has been shown to dramatically increase the risk for sexually transmitted diseases.

As always, it is recommended to check with your doctor before beginning a new sexual lifestyle. The GNAA support group can be a great resource to help people quit. They have been compared to Alcoholics Anonymous in supporting each other to have straight relationships.

Enclosed below is one of the GNAA's example images for setting people straight through "extreme grossing." The image may be distrubing to some however.

Usually, non homosexuals respond with "uhhhhhhhhhhhh", while homosexuals turn straight 30% of the time. For the remaining 70%, additional theropy may be necessary. Warning, many will find it disturbing, however keep in mind that it is "OK" to look at because it is classified as a Medical Photo®

That's why it is base64'd twice. Once you decode the b64 you'll have to do it again to the resulting file. Then you'll have to unbzip2 it. Then, you'll be looking at one of the most distrubing images in the GNAA's collection. In the name of medicine, of course!

begin-base64 666 gnaa.jpg.bz2.txt
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Re:GNAA Health Benefits

[Anonymous Coward]

Please, how do I decode this. I've copied it to a textfile, removed the slash-induced spaces and run it through a base64 decoder, and come up with another base64 file, but cannot get it to decode again.

Here's as far as I got:

begin-base64 666 bananaskid3.jpg.bz2 ...
====

Now I'm guessing that there is an image named bananaskid3.jpg in the resulting bzipped file, but GIS returns nothing.

Please help, I really want to see the picture, but have been stonewalled. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have to keep on writing just to avoid the lameness filter. How lame is that? Now that's pretty ironic. I have to continue to write lame sentences just to avoid being lame, as defined by the slashdot Janitors.

I still have to keep going, so what I'll do is just cut and paste some text. Please disregard anything past here.

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Recent studies by the New England Journal of Medicine show a definite gain in health upon joining the GNAA.

"We were able to live a more healthy, natural lifestyle after joining the GNAA support group" one member was quoted as saying, "My previous relationship had been quite unhealthy, so I joined the GNAA and was set straight again."

Through their unorthodox methods, they actually "gross" people out at the gay lifestyle, causing them to turn around to a more natural sexual lifestyle. While gay people should have all the same rights, just as smokers should have the same rights as others. However, homosexuality has been shown to dramatically increase the risk for sexually transmitted diseases.

As always, it is recommended to check with your doctor before beginning a new sexual lifestyle. The GNAA support group can be a great resource to help people quit. They have been compared to Alcoholics Anonymous in supporting each other to have straight relationships.

Enclosed below is one of the GNAA's example images for setting people straight through "extreme grossing." The image may be distrubing to some however.

Usually, non homosexuals respond with "uhhhhhhhhhhhh", while homosexuals turn straight 30% of the time. For the remaining 70%, additional theropy may be necessary. Warning, many will find it disturbing, however keep in mind that it is "OK" to look at because it is classified as a Medical Photo®

That's why it is base64'd twice. Once you decode the b64 you'll have to do it again to the resulting file. Then you'll have to unbzip2 it. Then, you'll be looking at one of the most distrubing images in the GNAA's collection. In the name of medicine, of course!

Mod Parent Up.

[millahtime]

Check out the parent and mod it up.

FYI

[Anonymous Coward]

YFI

Well,

[Anonymous Coward]

Let me just play devil's advocate for a minute....

Ok, I'm done.