Is Open Source SNORT Dead? 127
alphadogg writes "Is Snort, the 12-year-old open-source intrusion detection and prevention system, dead?
The Open Information Security Foundation, a nonprofit group funded by the US Dept. of Homeland Security to come up with next-generation open source IDS/IPS, thinks so. But Snort's creator, Martin Roesch, begs to differ, and in fact, calls the OISF's first open source IDS/IPS code, Suricata 1.0 released this week, a cheap knock-off of Snort paid for with taxpayer dollars.
The OISF was founded about a year and a half ago with $1 million in funding from a DHS cybersecurity research program, according to Matt Jonkman, president of OISF. He says OISF was founded to form an open source alternative and replacement to Snort, which he says is now considered dead since the research on what is supposed to be the next-generation version of Snort, Snort 3.0, has stalled."
No way (Score:5, Funny)
ls is dead (Score:5, Funny)
In other news, the ls command is also dead. When was the last major functional change for ls? When was the last time you saw a major support contract signed for the ls command? Note that I am accepting $1M contract offers to implement the next generation directory listing program, which I will be naming dir.exe, although I haven't decided whats more trendy, enterprise Java, ruby on rails, or maybe erlang?
Re:Snort's not dead... (Score:3, Funny)
I went to linux.com and for the life of me I can't find any Linux source code. You're right. These people are losers.
Re:ls is dead (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah but who in their right mind uses 1-based array indexing?