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Wireshark 1.0 Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the happy-sniffing dept.

katterjohn writes "After almost 10 years of work, Wireshark 1.0 has been released. Wireshark is the award-winning protocol analyzer, formerly known as Ethereal. The release features several security fixes and an experimental package for Max OS X Intel."

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  1. Re:and yet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    those features will be available in Wireshark 2.0, forecast for release in 2018 at their current pace

  2. Re:Award-winning? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whenever some product claims to be "award-winning", I always wonder what that award is.

    How could you wonder? It's "world famous"!

  3. Re:Downloads by gardyloo · · Score: 4, Funny

    One might want to use the "-mit Lasern" flag, of course.

  4. Re:More useful than you would think by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And aircrack-ng is far from an egghead tool. It's useful for... wait a minute....

  5. Re:Award-winning? by Nykon · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't think that's it. Microsoft always seems to clean up at THAT award ceremony. ;-)

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  6. Re:Yes, Yes, and it does... (Buried Lede?) by kasparov · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now come on! What sort of a lede is that? Just a tease and no candy? What does Wireshark 1.0 DO for pete's sake? A quick read: "Network protocol analyzer for Windows and Unix that allows examination of data from a live network, or from a capture file on disk." Basically it is tcpdump with a GUI. That is kind of like saying a bulldozer is like a shovel, but yellow.
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  7. Re:Helped me at work by 77Punker · · Score: 3, Funny

    Another story:
    I was picking up my wireless from my neighbor and my roommate was using my computer for internet access via crossover cable.

    I needed to know the contents of his AIM messages so I fired up Wireshark.

  8. Re:Yes, Yes, and it does... (Buried Lede?) by kylehase · · Score: 4, Funny

    The previous version was 0.99.8 so 0.00.2 was added to make it 1.0.0

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  9. If other companies made Wireshark by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 3, Funny

    Adobe: v1.0 is released; a week later 1.0.1 is released. A few months after that, 1.0.2. Then three years go by, and suddenly it's at 2.0, which is broken from the install.

    Microsoft: v1.0 is released; no one buys it. v2.0 is released; it's still not really usable. v3.0 comes out, and people suddenly line up for it around the block. v3.0SP1 is released and fixes most of the really bad bugs while introducing a few others, some random security vulnerabilities, invalidating half the licenses of all previous versions, and causes DrDOS to crash.

    Apple: v1.0 is released, but it has a bug so Apple pulls it from the download server for a few hours, after which a patched version replaces it, with the same exact version number, and no mention of any bugfix in the release notes. Any mention of any alleged switcheroo or the problem that existed in the first 1.0 release is ruthlessly and systematically quashed in the support forums on Apple's website; unfortunately, their lawyers can't censor the entire net.

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