<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Ian Wadham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iandw.au@gmail.com" target="_blank">iandw.au@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":xk" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">OK, thanks. I was just checking… Yersinia pestis = bubonic plague (aka the Black Death),<br>
so an odd name for a piece of software.<br></div></blockquote></div><br>I know. The SAINT white-hat vulnerability scanner was originally named SATAN. The double-edged nature of security / network scanning tools has always been understood by everyone on both sides, and naming often reflects it.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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