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[Burns MacDonald]

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 19:04, Michael Hipp wrote:

> It's not bogus. Mr. Gibson is well respected and his site is widely 
> used. Dunno why it didn't work properly on your system. I might guess 
> that it misidentified your IP address, or perhaps the fact that the 
> Internet has been only half working all day caused it to timeout.
> 

We do quite a bit of IT Security work. Shields Up is OK for what it is,
given the parameters it has to work under - it's not bogus, but it is
lightweight. Our Penetration and Vulnerability Testers use a collection
of expensive proprietary tools and custom-coded scripts. As I recall
Saint used to be a good tool and was available for Linux, but I don't
see an open-source version on their website any more - it's all
commercial licensing.
http://www.saintcorporation.com/products/saint_engine.html
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Burns MacDonald
Ottawa Canada