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Pretty sure I was using Snort literally about 20 years ago. Very strange.

Snort releasing 3.0 seems like news to me...

Snort 3 was released in January 2021:

https://blog.snort.org/2021/01/snort-3-officially-released.h...

Even as a someone who has used snort and have been aware if it for a long time I was surprised to read about the new release. Even if it’s stale a lot of folks I guess are just being made aware! Btw, the blog you linked is a lot more informative than OPs post.

As much as I love IDS, I am wondering the same.

"I've heard of it, therefore everyone has heard of it"

I get that argument, but Snort is 22 years old and a fairly popular network security technology. Feels like if someone put a link just Java or something.

Edit: Given the upvotes on this post, I was mistaken! A good lesson on keeping an open mind.