Talk:Sheep dip (computing)

Bogus Article, should be deleted

The only reference to the term 'sheep dip' appears to be the sheep dip software project's sourceforge page, which this Wikipedia page closely resembles.

The webopedia reference is hardly primary.

I have trouble believing that this term is widely used in the security industry - this page looks like a shill for the sheep dip sourceforge project, and should, I believe, be removed.(talk) 01:39, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

I fully agree. 'Sheep Dip' is NOT a standard term in the IT security field, it's only reference seems to be this sourceforge project, so this article is misleading. Also, statements like "Such machines are a normal first line of defence against viruses in high-security computing environments and IT security specialists are expected to be familiar with the concept" (emphasis mine) have no place in Wikipedia and suggest that the article was, in fact, written by a shill. As there isn't really much worthwhile in it I suggest to delete the article.192.93.164.132 (talk) 09:49, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

I've been in the IT field since the 90's and hadn't heard this term until it popped up on a practice test for a Comptia cert. If it were standard I believe I would have heard it at least once, giggled a bit, and easily remembered it since it is such an odd term. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.89.36.218 (talk) 15:31, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

I've removed the PROD notice from this. The term has been around since the early 1990s, and mentions of it can be found in Google Books. The article could use more sources, but it's not a shill term. JohnMarkOckerbloom (talk) 20:50, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

The historical usage of the term seems well cited now. The rest of the article was a bunch of WP:OR and opinions from one specific sourceforge project. I've removed all of that nonsense. 73.240.193.182 (talk) 06:04, 12 May 2022 (UTC)