From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 16:05:18 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA25567 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 16:05:18 -0700 Received: from localhost (jasper.ncbc.edu [199.86.32.171]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA25553 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 16:05:11 -0700 Received: from h002.ncbc.edu (h002.ncbc.edu [199.199.28.2]) by localhost (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA28295; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 17:00:00 GMT Message-Id: <199504041700.RAA28295@localhost> From: "Sean McGee" Organization: North Central Bible College To: Gary Palmer Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 18:03:06 +0000 Subject: Re: SATAN ported?? Reply-to: smmcgee@ncbc.edu CC: questions@FreeBSD.org X-Confirm-Reading-To: smmcgee@ncbc.edu X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.22) Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > To: smmcgee@ncbc.edu > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: SATAN ported?? > Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 23:36:30 +0100 > From: Gary Palmer > In message <199504041555.PAA28079@localhost>, Sean McGee writes: > >So, who's going to port SATAN so that we have some kind of defense? > > I'm sorry? SATAN isn't a defense system, it's an attack system. All you Not in my optimistic point of view! It was designed to "find" your security holes so that you can "plug" them. After all, the acronym stands for Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks, not Some Assinine Tool for Attacking Networks. If some wannabe hacker happens to rewrite the code - then yes, it can be used to attack, but then what about guns when you apply them to the same reasoning ?? > need is perl v5 and a WWW browser, and you've got the equipment to > run SATAN (a 64Mb P5-90 with 128Mb's swap helps also - it's a memory > pig apparently) BTW, thanks for the info. -sean