The men behind ettercap-NG

An anonymous reader writes "In 2001 two Italians released the first beta version of ettercap, a network protocol analyzer. Ettercap is now covered in most security books. It's number 9 in the Top 75 Security Tools list of the Nmap Hackers mailing list. This summer they released ettercap-NG, which was completely rewritten from scratch with better, modular code, making it easier to add new features and write and submit patches. NewsForge recently caught up with its authors for an Interview."

Comments

Good summary, this time

[YetAnotherName]

All too often, software announcements mention just the name of the item and not what it is or why it's interesting. As an example, compare this recent summary for Zope.

Not everyone's heard of Ettercap; this summary says what it is (network protocol analyzer) and also why it's important (in top ten of security tools). I hope to see more summaries of this caliber on Slashdot.

The fact that it's a *NIX program

[Lifewish]

"anyone care to justify this application, which seems to be yet another blackhat/script kiddy tool?"

Anyone who's smart enough to use it effectively deserves results :)

Seriously, a swiss army knife for kiddies is by definition a swiss army knife for security testers and system managers. I'd prefer for hacking tools to be available for all rather than just for the malicious portion of the online population.