[Full-disclosure] NSA tracking open source security tools
Peter Bruderer
brudy at bruderer-research.com
Sat Feb 4 13:12:07 GMT 2006
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 07:36 -0500, TheGesus wrote:
> The NSA wrote libpcap in the first place.
>
> Takes one to know one, I guess. :-)
The NRG (Network Research Group) of the ICSD (Information and Computing
Sciences Division) at LBNL (Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory) in
Berkeley, California actually wrote libpcap. And other nice tools, like
tcpdump, traceroute,
http://www-nrg.ee.lbl.gov/
That was at least true one or two decades ago.
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