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by lucideer 2046 days ago
A lot of these "awesome" lists are maybe reasonably OK on first-publish, but ultimately become useless due to:

1. Lack of curation (focus on including everything rather than being opinionated)

2. Lack of updates (tools get out of date fast, especially in long lists that try and include everything).

However, THIS list is different. This list is BAD on first publish. Most of the categories are not even remotely security related ("Project Management") or at least not explicitly so ("Supply Chain Management" / "Docker UI" / "Configuration Management"). Yeah sure, some of the latter will be useful for blue teams, but noone on any blue team is going to be searching for those tools under the keyword "security".

Beyond the above, things get worse: the formatting is hopeless, many of the tools are not open-source at all, and while including a lot of irrelevant non-security-related stuff, it omits many obvious well-known security tools.

Flagged for marketing this as "Open source"

1 comments

Flagging seems a bit excessive. I have no affiliation with penetrum. Just thought the collection as a whole was interesting. Of course it's not a perfect list as it seems to be a one time post.
I wouldn't go as far as flagging typically for low-quality content. However labelling something as "open source" when it is in fact not "open source" goes further.