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TIL there's a (big apparently) FOSS project called "Bro". Is this an acronym, humour, sarcasm or what?
by reinhardt 11y ago
TIL there's a (big apparently) FOSS project called "Bro". Is this an acronym, humour, sarcasm or what?
- d-m 11y agoBro (https://www.bro.org https://www.bro.org) is a network monitoring and protocol analysis framework that has been in development for roughly 15 years. Its name is a reference to "Big Brother" due to its ability to provide visibility into network traffic. The project also got a MOSS grant for $200K today. (http://blog.bro.org/2015/12/bro-receives-200k-grant-from-mozilla.html http://blog.bro.org/2015/12/bro-receives-200k-grant-from-moz...) An employee from Mozilla gave a talk at BroCon this year describing how they use Bro. The video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGlTo9y7u88 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGlTo9y7u88.