What's the hat got to do with it? -
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Published on: 7/1/2000
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One source I met at USENIX told me to check that story with Peter Shipley , now the director of labs at OneSecure , a firm specializing in virtual private networks and security.
Shipley wrote the first Internet scanner , Netsweep , in 1988.He has been a part of both the dark side and the security communities for years , and he often speaks about security at conferences like CFP ( Computers , Freedom , Privacy ).In fact , I met him here in Austin at CFP '98.
As I dug deeper to get beneath the corporate hype about how pure ISS and its employees were , I found that ISS was widely disliked.Perhaps this is a natural result of ISS providing defenses against security tools like Back Orifice from groups like cDc ( the Cult of the Dead Cow ).Perhaps not.
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About Peter Shipley's comments , Klaus said that very little of the original ISS was based on any work by Shipley.