Devil's advocate
Sarah R. Gordon · Network Security · 1995
In this article we will be taking a close look at SATAN; its history, what it does, how to use it safely, how to detect its use and how to fix the holes SATAN finds. It is everywhere. It has been in the news for months, with people saying that its release would bring a tsumani wave of hacker attacks, and that thousands of machines would be compromised. Some have even speculated that the Internet itself might be brought to its electronic knees.