dirtbags.net was started as a place to release some projects we had created in the never-ending arms race that is network security. People beyond the developers have expressed interest in some of these projects, and now they can be shared and discovered anew the world over.
Alex is an accomplished complainer. He's also the only one of us who ever takes notes, which means he's usually the only one who has any idea what the crap is going on.
Phil Wood, alias cpw, wrote grok and bag. He has contributed to such perennial Unix favorites as traceroute, libpcap, and snort. He has been accused of writing 'the entire Internet,' but he firmly denies this.
He's not the guy from the movie "Contact", but we suspect they based the character on Fish.
Neale wrote py-pcap and some other junk. His never-ending quest to reimplement existing software for marginal gains eventually drove him to working with these dirtbags.
"Dirtbag" is the term Phil uses for pretty much anybody he has to spend time investigating. It's kinda catchy, and the domain name was available, so what the hey.