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The men behind ettercap-NG

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the lock-down-the-hatches dept.

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."

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  1. spoken like a true *nix fan by necrogram · · Score: 5, Funny
    Because our mailboxes were full of users' requests for Windows porting and our antispam filter started to get confused.

    Thats one way to deal with windows people

  2. Good summary, this time by YetAnotherName · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. Re:Well, I have never liked ettercap by NicolaiBSD · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You're comparing apples and oranges. Ettercap is not just a packet dumping/protocol analyzer tool like tcpdump. It has many active features, like arp-cache poisoning, data injection etc.

  4. Interesting comment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We chose the GPL because it's the most used, so it has to be the best.

    I have a nice Windows XP CD to sell you, guys.

    --
    Glass, total pwnage.

  5. I love ettercap... by wschalle · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Its man in the middle feature lets me catch botnets on my college campus (I work in the IT dept.) and shut them down immediately.