On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 11:23:10AM +1300, Jason Coombs wrote: > Fyodor wrote: > >George Bush visiting the NSA headquarters in Fort Meade. A wall-sized > >screen in the background displays the latest versions of our favorite > >open source security tools, including Nmap, Metasploit, Snort, > >Ethereal, Cain & Abel, and Kismet. Nifty. > > The NSA must have learned information security tricks from Microsoft. > Who in their right mind would focus their attention on software version > numbers and think that makes for better security?
Or, alternatively, it was just a quickly ginned-up background made to look "high-tech" for the President's visit. Yeah, it's stupid to have version numbers scrolling by on the screen as useful information, but it's even dumber to think that the NSA would put live, or even important, data on the screen during a freaking photo op, with the press all over the place. -- "After a while, the hanged man will become motionless and his gallows will oscillate as if its fulcrum were the hanged man." - Mario Salvadori, Columbia University, 1984. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
