Flashes of Panic

You know you’re a real network geek when you see nothing strange about visiting a site called Bleeding Snort.

(OK, OK, the site is even more mystifying than that sentence if you don’t already get it. “Snort” is a tool for “network sniffing” or examining raw network packets for whatever reason. This site, which I just discovered in class research, is a collection of “bleeding-edge” rules for detecting certain fresh kinds of badness on the network. Hence “bleeding snort.” Exactly the sort of site which gets one massive prestige inside the geek community and really strange looks outside it: “Yeah, I manage the Bleeding Snort website…”)

Now playing: Trans-Neptunian Object #1 from Cherry Marmalade by Kay Hanley