Re: This mailing list on a blog

["Stian Øvrevåge" <sovrevage () gmail com>]

On 5/15/07, Robert Wesley McGrew <wesley () mcgrewsecurity com> wrote:
> On 15 May 2007 18:30:46 -0000, krymson () gmail com <krymson () gmail com> wrote:
> > We could break it down some more. What could secFocus do to combat this and >what can users do?
> >
> > I'm not sure that anything SecFocus can do will really make a dent in these >operations unless they close both the 
> archives and the mailing list signup. The >necessary evils of the Internet. :(
> >
> > For users, I hate to say it because it is like saying "leech on P2P networks" which >kinda breaks down the whole spirit of it, but you can 
> post from something like >Yahoo or Hotmail accounts with an assumed name so that you yourself are not >being exposed on various other splogs and sites 
> and whatnot. Then again, I'd >hate to see people resort to that in order to be more dramatic and personally >attacking. It's definitely a 
> debatable line.
>
> I'm not sure I understand the problem here.  Why is it such a bad
> thing to have blogs and such bring in content from the mailing list,
> and why should we combat it?
>
> --
> Robert Wesley McGrew
> http://mcgrewsecurity.com

I second that Robert.

First of all I do not see the point. And second of all it's not
practically doable. Resulting in the biggest evils we as the security
community should try to fight, FUD and security theatre.

So go out and be paranoid somewhere else.

--
Stian Øvrevåge