From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 06:18:45 +0800
To: Patrick Lamb <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: [noise] Re: Attack Simulator
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960118205437.008885a4@mail.teleport.com>
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At 02:04 PM 1/18/96 -0600, Patrick Lamb wrote:
>Is it just me, or does this sound like a commercial version of SATAN?  I
>wonder what makes SATAN unacceptable (besides the name) while something like
>this is apparently acceptable?

It is very similar, both in tests and in basic principle, to Satan.

The differences between the two are hype and Satan is free to anyone who can
figure how to make it work.  (Not always an easy task...  Especially on Linux.)

Such tools are very useful for system admin types to fix holes and for
hackers to find them. It is not the "all powerful hacker tool" the media
makes it out to be.

What this has to do with crypto, I have no idea...

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