Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN ain't the place.
for owls ?
For discourse, it seems.
AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
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Re: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting, newer knew the word is of biblical origin. In German the word Moloch is in somewhat common use to refer to an abstract merciless, all-consuming or all devouring power. E.g big cities might get referred to as molochs the way they eat into nature around it or suck people into its anonymity
I was thinking the same. In German Moloch is mostly used for groteskly big/growing cities. But thinking about it, the "eating into nature"-theme aligns well with the biblical "eating into kids"-theme. For me at least, because of the city-context, Moloch matches: The moloch could stand for the amount of activity in a system that is humanly insurmountable to get a better-than-superficial understanding of.
Ha, so I learned two things about Moloch today.
I didn't have that strong of an association of Moloch with big cities as it felt like when I looked it up for the above answer, so I googled a bit of its usage on news sites and it looks like in Germany it is almost exclusively used for big cities, whereas in Switzerland, cities is the most common usage but it is applied way more liberally.
Within a minute or so I saw it used to refer to: The EU, a government bicycle program, a 2km long tunnel in Zürich, iTunes, the Tour de France, Goldman Sachs and fashion.
Re: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
#53The amount of professional-grade hand-wringing virtue-signaling in this comment section makes me feel ill. Why get bent out of shape over the name of a software project? It's virtually a meaningless factor in day-to-day life. What about hearing phrases "Sacrificing a Chicken to Moloch," the "spirit cooking" culture and related symbolism rampant in elite political circles? Shouldn't we be more interested in that? Lots…
Preach Brother!
Moloch is a serious open source project, run by serious people who care about network security. They published their code under an open source license, showing off just how confident they are that it is solid. You can use this project to inspect packets on your network, you can learn how they built it and become a valuable network security engineer with a job somewhere finding people trying to hack in to your site. You can propose modifications to make this even better (and if your code is good enough, it will get accepted and used by security teams around the world). Or you could focus on the name they chose and the name of the company at the time this was published.
I'd seize the opportunity to talk tech and focus on network security. Infosec jobs pay better than brand marketing jobs.
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#54Re: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
#55Seriously "Moloch", was Lucifer or Satan taken already? Edit: And the logo is an owl lmao hard pass - what can they gain from this?
Well, there's already a database called Voldemort...
Re: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
#56Seriously "Moloch", was Lucifer or Satan taken already? Edit: And the logo is an owl lmao hard pass - what can they gain from this?
Yes, SATAN was already taken!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Administrator_Tool_fo...
Re: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorta like https://www.wireshark.org/ . But Moloch is a very active project, used by many, and used internally at Verizon Media. Aol is part of Verizon Media (which brought AOL and Yahoo together). Open source is very active here. ;-) Compare also to https://enterprise.verizon.com/products/security/advanced-th... (formerly known as Protectwise), which is not open source.
Oh woah cool! I love the Verizon dashboard, looks very polished for an internal tool! I have a friend who did some network security work for Comcast, interesting stuff it is.
Those are some good looking dashboards.
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#58According to my sources, DARPA wasn't involved in any of the child sacrifices, but they might use Moloch to help secure their networks.
Yep! As far as I'm aware, a number of military services (I think the USAF) have been public about using Moloch on their networks. It was money well spent by DARPA.
Moloch is free. :-)
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep! As far as I'm aware, a number of military services (I think the USAF) have been public about using Moloch on their networks. It was money well spent by DARPA.
Moloch is free. :-)
Well, Moloch is free now. DARPA had to make a lot of sacrifices to make that happen, though.