Re: new iss stuff
root@maths.su.oz.au
Wed, 11 May 94 07:47:30 +1000
In message <9405101323.AA11070@rwing.UUCP> rwing!pat@ole.cdac.com (Pat
Myrto) writes:
> Its a good example of Security Thru Obscurity being alive and well.
> > INTERNET SECURITY SCANNER 2.0
> > ISS 2.0 will not be distributed to the public directly because
> I take it that this means its a binary distribution only?
> Yeh, right. In other words, if one is not a net.legend, working for
> CERT, knows a lot of the 'right' people, or running some site that is
> on the Fortune 500, etc, one is out of luck. But sooner or later, the
> cracker crowd will get a copy if its any good.
Pat did not consider or include the following from the ISS announcement:
> For 45 Days, Beginning May 1st, there is a Special Introductory Price:
> For more information about features and price, please e-mail
> iss@shadow.net or cklaus@shadow.net
> [ ... ]
> To help pay for the expenses of development of this product, there is a
> fee. To get an old version, there is a copy for ftp at aql.gatech.edu.
Just because the package is not free, does not mean that it is not available
to everyone; cklaus is entitled to some remuneration for his work. Most good
things in life are not free. - Does the discussion of the price of security
products, or computers, belong on bugtraq?
Paul Szabo - System Manager // School of Mathematics and Statistics
szabo_p@maths.su.oz.au // University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia