Argus: a hijacking alarm system

Sat Jan 21 09:07:51 UTC 2012

2012/1/21 Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists at gmail.com>

> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:45 PM, RijilV <rijilv at riji.lv> wrote:
> >> A suggestion: pick a different name.  There's already a network tool
> >> named Argus (it's been around for years): http://www.qosient.com/argus/
> >>
> >> I suggest using the name of a different Wishbone Ash album: "Bona
> Fide". ;-)
>
> > Ha, there are already two with the name Argus:
> > http://argus.tcp4me.com/
>
> Argus being a many eyed dog from greek myth ..  no surprise a lot of
> tools that do this kind of thing have the very same name.
>
> Call it panopticon maybe?  [nastier connotations - originally a prison
> design by jeremy bentham where a warder sitting in the center could
> see everything around him]
>

sounds cool :)
panopticon


>
> --srs
>
>


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