Pardon my ignorance - Is this the same AOL as America Online?
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
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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…
The fact we have access to tools like this (and many, many others) is so damn motivating. I am working through some structured course material in preparation for net-sec baseline `$vendor-$certification` exams, and there are so many complexities and rabbit holes that it's easy to be overwhelmed. Some nights are harder than others to see forest for the trees when it feels I'm trying to understand how to pick up a sing…
Is also a species of (Australian?) Lizard, just fyi
Re: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
#83Pardon my ignorance - Is this the same AOL as America Online?
It certainly is!
Re: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
#84The 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…
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Re: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
#85The 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…
Unless a bunch of people deleted their comments, at the time you posted, the comments actually criticizing the name had about as many words as the first half of your comment, with replies mostly pushing back instead of agreeing. None of the critical comments were particularly strident ('bent out of shape'). Your comment might as well be about itself.
What is the term of art ?
To be anti-grandfathered ?
Re: 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
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fact we have access to tools like this (and many, many others) is so damn motivating. I am working through some structured course material in preparation for net-sec baseline `$vendor-$certification` exams, and there are so many complexities and rabbit holes that it's easy to be overwhelmed. Some nights are harder than others to see forest for the trees when it feels I'm trying to understand how to pick up a sing…
Is also a species of (Australian?) Lizard, just fyi
TIL! Thanks burpsnard =)
Re: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
#89Not 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
At least it's not trafficly
Re: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
They do an amazing job keeping it secret too. Can't even find them on the contributor list https://github.com/aol/moloch/graphs/contributors
Those are those who contributed code. Unfortunately, defense contract money doesn't have a tab on GitHub. Trust me, I've used palantir/tslint
Just search for the project/deliverable/system/protocol on LinkedIn ;) ;) ;)