Hey cobber, I'm not obscuring my location! I'm
solidly located in cyberspace!:-)
Just because I don't have.au on the end of my
domains doesn't mean that I'm pretending to be
American!.com and.org domains are
"international" and I want to build an
international company, not a South Australian one.
News Corporation is a South Australian company,
but we don't think of it that way anymore.:-)
I don't wear Australian Colours, because I see
Australia as irrelevant to what I am setting out
to do. It is not a salient component of the
marketing mix. Neither will I hide Australian
origins.
I don't feel the need to leave Australia to
make any kind of statement because I don't feel
the need to make a statement. I'd rather make a
company. I plan to live in Australia personally,
but ignore it professionally.:-) I'm very proud to
live in a democratic country that can be so easily
ignored!
There is no hippo crazy here as the Free World
Licence explicitly does not claim to be
"Open Source". Go read it! Near the top, it
explicitly says so!
I don't have an easy answer to your Darwin
question, but I would guess that Apple will not
be releasing OSX under a free licence, so therefore
it will not be a free platform even if it is
capable of running executables that run on
free platforms.
I agree with a lot of what you say. The main
reason why the licence is the way it is in
relation to commercial emulators is because
excluding them resulted in a much more
conceptually simple definition of "free platform".
If you can form a concrete proposal for how
the licence might be modified, I'll look at it.
Thank you. This is my position too. I'm not
advocating the Free World Licence as the best
licence. It's just another licence, but it's one
that (I believe) is usefully different from
existing mainstream free software licences and
which provides another option for those thinking
of releasing software under a free licence.
Hello there. You can choose to run FreeVeracity
standalone or as a server either as root or as
an ordinary user as you please. It just depends
on what you want FreeVeracity to be able to see.
If you want it to be able to see all the files
on the system, then you'll have to run it as root.
I'm not sure how FreeVeracity would work with
PortSentry. However, if you use FreeVeracity's
T.data feature to monitor logfiles, it will
email you the logfiles differences, so yes it
can be used to centralize the changes of a few
different logfiles in one report, if that's
what you meant.
The significant new thing is that FreeVeracity
implements a new network service called an
integrity server. This is a service just like
FTP or HTTP or News or Email except that it
serves integrity information in a standard form.
There are very many ways of using an integrity
server, just as there are many uses for FTP and
mail. Security is just one application. An
example of another application is the comparison
of online and offline copies of a web. FreeVeracity
defines a new multipurpose network service
and provides a production-quality implementation
for free platforms. As far as I know, no other
software has taken this flexible well-defined
new-network-service approach.
FreeVeracity can be used/configured in MANY
different ways and for many different
applications. If you deploy it for intrusion
detection using its network features, then
the snapshot file ("hash table") is actually
stored on the central checking client, not on
the machine being attacked. So this is not an
issue. Furthermore, you can get more than one
client to check the target machine, so that there
is more than one copy of the snapshot for the
cracker to have to update.
Hello. I just want to say that the only reason
I mentioned Veracity in my announcement was to
make it clear that FreeVeracity was a derivation
of an existing tested commercial product rather
than being brand-new code that everyone was
likely to spend the next few months debugging!
I wasn't trying to sneak through an advertisement,
but I'm not sad if it's ended up as one!
The reason why it's V3.0 is because this
first-ever release of FreeVeracity
is directly derived from Veracity V3.0. Veracity
is a commercial data integrity tool that has been
on the market since 1994.
I agree that FreeVeracity is only
one part of the security solution. I believe
that it is a very important part though
because it's the part that will save you
if all the other parts fail.
Hello. Rocksoft does not assert that
FreeVeracity is the ONLY network intrusion
detection tool that you'll need. You
should still deploy all the boundary and packet
based tools too. FreeVeracity is only part of
the solution, as are most tools.
So it's still correct
to classify FreeVeracity as an intrusion
detection tool.
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Just because I don't have .au on the end of my
domains doesn't mean that I'm pretending to be
American! .com and .org domains are
"international" and I want to build an
international company, not a South Australian one.
News Corporation is a South Australian company,
but we don't think of it that way anymore. :-)
I don't wear Australian Colours, because I see Australia as irrelevant to what I am setting out to do. It is not a salient component of the marketing mix. Neither will I hide Australian origins.
I don't feel the need to leave Australia to make any kind of statement because I don't feel the need to make a statement. I'd rather make a company. I plan to live in Australia personally, but ignore it professionally. :-) I'm very proud to
live in a democratic country that can be so easily
ignored!
I don't have an easy answer to your Darwin question, but I would guess that Apple will not be releasing OSX under a free licence, so therefore it will not be a free platform even if it is capable of running executables that run on free platforms.
If you can form a concrete proposal for how the licence might be modified, I'll look at it.
Thank you. This is my position too. I'm not advocating the Free World Licence as the best licence. It's just another licence, but it's one that (I believe) is usefully different from existing mainstream free software licences and which provides another option for those thinking of releasing software under a free licence.
I'm not sure how FreeVeracity would work with PortSentry. However, if you use FreeVeracity's T.data feature to monitor logfiles, it will email you the logfiles differences, so yes it can be used to centralize the changes of a few different logfiles in one report, if that's what you meant.
The significant new thing is that FreeVeracity implements a new network service called an integrity server. This is a service just like FTP or HTTP or News or Email except that it serves integrity information in a standard form. There are very many ways of using an integrity server, just as there are many uses for FTP and mail. Security is just one application. An example of another application is the comparison of online and offline copies of a web. FreeVeracity defines a new multipurpose network service and provides a production-quality implementation for free platforms. As far as I know, no other software has taken this flexible well-defined new-network-service approach.
The Free World Licence allows distributors to charge a copying fee just like the GPL. So this is a non-issue.
FreeVeracity can be used/configured in MANY different ways and for many different applications. If you deploy it for intrusion detection using its network features, then the snapshot file ("hash table") is actually stored on the central checking client, not on the machine being attacked. So this is not an issue. Furthermore, you can get more than one client to check the target machine, so that there is more than one copy of the snapshot for the cracker to have to update.
Hello. I just want to say that the only reason I mentioned Veracity in my announcement was to make it clear that FreeVeracity was a derivation of an existing tested commercial product rather than being brand-new code that everyone was likely to spend the next few months debugging! I wasn't trying to sneak through an advertisement, but I'm not sad if it's ended up as one!
The reason why it's V3.0 is because this first-ever release of FreeVeracity is directly derived from Veracity V3.0. Veracity is a commercial data integrity tool that has been on the market since 1994. I agree that FreeVeracity is only one part of the security solution. I believe that it is a very important part though because it's the part that will save you if all the other parts fail.
Hello. Rocksoft does not assert that FreeVeracity is the ONLY network intrusion detection tool that you'll need. You should still deploy all the boundary and packet based tools too. FreeVeracity is only part of the solution, as are most tools. So it's still correct to classify FreeVeracity as an intrusion detection tool.
I have a habit of trying to eliminate pronouns as they tend to lead to ambiguity, but I obviously overdid it in this case!