Bro Network Security Monitor

Re:Bro Network Security Monitor by moron4hire on Monday June 09, 2014 @01:34PM (#7869426)

And the word "bro" means a lot more than just "brogrammer" in the wider world outside of Silicon Valley. It's not necessarily pejorative in all use cases. I think it's fine that this stays "bro". Don't let shitty web magazines dictate the language for the rest of us.

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Re:Bro Network Security Monitor by tptacek on Monday June 09, 2014 @01:52PM (#7869531)

Can we stop pretending this is a controversy in which our opinions about the name matters? Bro has been Bro for almost as much time as the network simulator has been named "ns"; longer, in fact, than Pathchar. Bro simply is its name. There's no discussion to be had about it.

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Re:Bro Network Security Monitor by remor on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @10:52AM (#7878280)

Wait, wait! I've got it. Bro has been Bro longer than Google has been Google. <drops mic>....

http://www.google.com/about/company/history/ http://www.bro.org/documentation/history.png

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Re:Bro Network Security Monitor by moron4hire on Monday June 09, 2014 @02:22PM (#7869678)

You know, I agree with you completely. It's really not an issue.

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