From: Jay D. Dyson (jdyson@treachery.net)
Date: Fri Nov 04 2005 - 11:03:04 EST
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On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, brandon.steili@gmail.com wrote:
> Sounds about right. Here's a link:
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/101305-nessus.html
Quoting from the article:
"We want to bring Nessus to a larger audience, so
Nessus 3.0 is going to be closed source, Gula said.
If its not open source, a lot of government agencies
and enterprises can use it, where before they wouldnt."
This is absolute nonsense. Many government agencies and private
enterprises with clued IT security folks already use Nessus and have for
quite some time. In this move, all Tenable has ultimately done is pervert
Nessus into a latter-day ISS clone.
This shift toward commercialized closed-source silliness renders
any use of Nessus untenable* in my book. I will no more recommend its
future use than I would ISS.
- -Jay
* - No pun intended.
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