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Re:The Bro Network Security Monitor by comrh on Saturday May 10, 2014 @05:11PM (#7726865)
From their white paper:

> "Our monitoring system is called Bro (an Orwellian reminder that monitoring comes hand in hand with the potential for privacy violations)"

So Big Brother = Bro

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Re:The Bro Network Security Monitor by paul on Saturday May 10, 2014 @05:20PM (#7726888)
How ironic that the thought police choose to flag a 1984 inspired tool :)
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Re:The Bro Network Security Monitor by kirubakaran on Saturday May 10, 2014 @09:35PM (#7727386)
Quite fitting, really.
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Re:The Bro Network Security Monitor by Alex3917 on Saturday May 10, 2014 @10:21PM (#7727450)
It doesn't even make sense because the modern usage is almost exclusively a pejorative term that is only used for some subset of white men. If you look through urban dictionary or YouTube, you'd be have to scroll a pretty long time to see any other usage. Saying that women are discriminated against because they can't be called bros is like saying white people are discrimated against because they can't be called racial slurs for African Americans.
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