DK 'Log

Back with a quick status update. I hope this will be the last "misc" message in a while, so I can start uploading useful content again.

First of all, I hope everything's having a nice summer (or winter ;-)). I had my small share of holiday too, and expect to have another week of two during the next months.

We've decided to start working on an alternative feed for Nessus after Tenable having changed licensing again.

Excluding even non-profit organizations and testing purposes completely from the feed seems contrary to the open source spirits, so we'll be investing a considerable amount of effort and money into providing a high quality feed for everyone.

The final workings of it is still unclear, but we're aiming at the Sourcefire model: if you subscribe you'll get them instantly, everybody else gets them with a slight delay (we're discussing a one to four week delay).

One of the goals we've got is getting a good bunch of people interested on this and willing to participate (sort of a Consortium maybe, although we're starting it internally right now) so if you could please share this with people who could have the skill/knowledge to contribute to this, I'd be more than grateful.

Last but not least we're looking into a way of ensuring that the effort put into this by everyone won't be abused in any ways, so if anybody has got suggestions about model/licensing/etc it would be great to hear them.

Edit: Due to licensing warnings from Tenable I had to rewrite some terminology.