full-disclosure - NSA tracking open source security tools

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Date: Sat Feb  4 13:12:17 2006
From: brudy at bruderer-research.com (Peter Bruderer)
Subject: NSA tracking open source security tools

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 07:36 -0500, TheGesus wrote:
> The NSA wrote libpcap in the first place.
> 
> Takes one to know one, I guess. :-)

The NRG (Network Research Group) of the ICSD (Information and Computing
Sciences Division) at LBNL (Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory) in
Berkeley, California actually wrote libpcap. And other nice tools, like
tcpdump, traceroute, 

http://www-nrg.ee.lbl.gov/

That was at least true one or two decades ago.