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Message-ID: <49BF76C0C48BA50B12A6713C@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local>
Date: Sat Feb 4 19:00:29 2006
From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: NSA tracking open source security tools
--On February 4, 2006 1:21:41 AM -0800 Fyodor <fyodor@...ecure.org> wrote:
> Of the recent U.S. political scandals, one of the most divisive is the
> issue of President Bush (IMHO illegally) authorizing the NSA to
> conduct warantless wiretaps on Americans' phone calls and emails.
> While I don't like the NSA tracking my phone calls, they are welcome
> to track Nmap release status. And apparently they are doing so :).
> The latest (February 6) issue of Newsweek has a picture on page 39 of
> 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. For those
> without the magazine, I have posted a pic at:
>
So....you think what the NSA is doing is illegal and you don't like them
tracking your phone calls (why would they be? Are you talking to bin
Laden?), but you think that them using tools that can be used to
successfully hack computer networks is "nifty"?
No double standard there, huh? :-)
Love Nmap, BTW. Great tool. Thanks for writing and consistently
maintaining it.
Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/
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