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Wireshark 1.0 Released
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."
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?
This project took 10 years of continuous development and public testing to reach a 1.0 release. This timeframe is not atypical; F/OSS 1.0 releases are usually stable, reliable, and heavily featured. Some projects never make a 2.0 release, instead making point releases on top of 1.0 indefinately.
The 1.0 release of most commercial software comes after extremely limited public testing, and the developers scramble to make a 2.0 release within a year. Commercial 1.0 releases are frequently buggy and have obvious gaps in functionality, which are often not completely addressed in 2.0.
I'll be off to update mine today. It's the best improvement on tcpdump I've ever used.
Amen to that. "Assemble TCP Stream" alone is a glorious thing, and there's so much more.
Still, I'm a little sad that it's now v1.0. It seemed much more advanced when it was 0.9.99.9921 or whatever the last prerelease version was.
Why do you hang around /. if you don't have the occasional use for Ether^H^H^H^H^Wireshark. It does run on Windows nicely.
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Award, hmmm, award
It really doesn't matter what awards WS has won.
It is a classic example of FOSS at its best. In the dim and distant past you paid serious money for packet capture software. Now you get the absolute dog's nadgers on a plate for nowt. It shows me everything from what a NetWare cluster is up to to a well, what more do you want? Also you can follow streams etc etc etc etc
I personally put it up there with Apache and Samba (oh and that Linux kernel thing) as important software. OK there are quite a few others but I trust you get my point.
Whenever someone says something like "Whenever some product claims to be "award-winning", I always wonder what that award is." I trust they know what they are on about.
By gum it's a good world when it comes to software.
AWARD - PAH - use the bloody thing and give out your own awards!
Man, people have mod points burning holes in their keyboards tonight.
I fail to see anything at all "interesting in this". Taking advantage of other people because you are more knowledgeable than them, breaking the law, and then boasting about it on Slashdot is -5 Lame, especially when the level of expertise involved is what is usually ascribed to "script kiddies".
And no, you don't get a pass because it was the "only black hat thing I've ever done", like we believe that, and it sure sounds like the entire objective of your weak excuse for "black hat" action was to sniff their traffic, since changing their router setup was hardly necessary if you just wanted to steal access.
Maybe I'm just having an old man moment, but I kept expecting some kind of punch line in there, and it ended up just being "my neighbor left his garage door open, and I stole a six-pack out of his fridge". WTF is that about?
He said religion