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dang on May 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Bro Network Security Monitor

Their email archive goes back to 1998. Presumably the name wasn't a troll 15 years ago?

Tokala on May 10, 2014 | [–]

It is a reference to ``1984" and Big Brother. Their naming choice was mentioned in the original paper about it from 1999: http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/bro-CN99.html

jimminy on May 10, 2014 | [–]

Fair enough. I'm guessing it was people reacting to the title.

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