An odd port

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, thanks.  I was just checking…  Yersinia pestis = bubonic plague (aka
> the Black Death),
> so an odd name for a piece of software.
>

I know. The SAINT white-hat vulnerability scanner was originally named
SATAN. The double-edged nature of security / network scanning tools has
always been understood by everyone on both sides, and naming often reflects
it.

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