AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system

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Post by bottle2 » Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 8:03 PM UTC

AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
molo.ch

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Post by sparrish » Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 8:34 PM UTC

What a horrible name for a project. Why would you want it associated with child sacrifice? It's disgusting and distracts from any merits of the tech.

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Post by ignoramous » Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 8:35 PM UTC

Not the greatest choice of name: Moloch[a] (also Molech, Mollok, Milcom, or Malcam) is the biblical name of a Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice, through fire or war.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch

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Post by yingw787 » Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 8:36 PM UTC

This is cool, thanks for sharing! I'll be honest, I didn't think AOL did anything...interesting...but this is interesting to me! What are some open-source alternatives / analogues to this product?

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Post by pnathan » Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 8:38 PM UTC

ignoramous wrote: post #3

Not the greatest choice of name: Moloch[a] (also Molech, Mollok, Milcom, or Malcam) is the biblical name of a Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice, through fire or war. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch

That was my immediate thought as well.

Profoundly and deeply unsavory.

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Post by striking » Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 8:45 PM UTC

ignoramous wrote: post #3

Not the greatest choice of name: Moloch[a] (also Molech, Mollok, Milcom, or Malcam) is the biblical name of a Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice, through fire or war. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch

Perhaps they were going for an association with Allen Ginsburg's Howl (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl) instead?

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Post by mumphster » Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 8:46 PM UTC

sparrish wrote: post #2

What a horrible name for a project. Why would you want it associated with child sacrifice? It's disgusting and distracts from any merits of the tech.

counterpoint: I like it and owls are pretty rad

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Post by pas » Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 8:48 PM UTC

ignoramous wrote: post #3

Not the greatest choice of name: Moloch[a] (also Molech, Mollok, Milcom, or Malcam) is the biblical name of a Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice, through fire or war. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

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Post by _jal » Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 8:51 PM UTC

ignoramous wrote: post #3

Not the greatest choice of name: Moloch[a] (also Molech, Mollok, Milcom, or Malcam) is the biblical name of a Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice, through fire or war. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch

Kind of fitting for AOL though. I can name three startups that went to die there off the top of my head.

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Post by chews » Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 8:53 PM UTC

ignoramous wrote: post #3

Not the greatest choice of name: Moloch[a] (also Molech, Mollok, Milcom, or Malcam) is the biblical name of a Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice, through fire or war. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch

It's an inside joke to the Deep State that actively needs captures of network data, AOL... is a Verizon company after all. In these discordian times, even Eris would blush.