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An "edgy" name can get you in real trouble. The brilliant programmer Dan Farmer [1] who developed the security tool that he named SATAN [2] was fired from his j
by mysterypie 10y ago
An "edgy" name can get you in real trouble. The brilliant programmer Dan Farmer [1] who developed the security tool that he named SATAN [2] was fired from his job when he published his program. If you haven't heard of SATAN, it was the most important network security analysis tool in the late 1990s.
I feel certain that the name was the critical factor that made his company so nervous. For a while he had two different names for the program, SATAN and SANTA, to try and reduce the stigma, but it didn't work.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Farmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Farmer
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Administrator_Tool_for_Analyzing_Networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Administrator_Tool_fo...
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