Having seen numerous other vulnerabillity scanners, that use Nessus and then dress up the exterior, this seems to make sense. I read an interview with Tenable that said you would still be able to write plugins. This seems like an adequate compromise for the majority of users. Most of us don't truly need the source code.

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