Comments on: Odds and Ends

By: -: A Random View of an Insecure World : » Blog Archive » Top 59 Influencers in IT Security

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:30:39 +0000

[...] Yes, it’s gotten a lot of press already and there are a lot of people who disagree with the original list. It looks like someone took the roster from the Security Blogger Meetup at RSA, made it into a list and did some random rankings to make it look official. There are some glaring omissions (as Thomas mentions on the Matasano blog) of people who I’d argue are very influential in the security industry today. [...]

By: LonerVamp

LonerVamp — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:58:06 +0000

I started in on it, but have not gotten around to decoding the string that one of the listening ports responds with. Been a busy week, sadly.

Winny both impresses and annoys me. It is impressive how such a small tool can do such big things. And it annoys me that such a small tool can do such big things. Puts the futility of some security ideas and initiatives into perspective.

By: Tyler Reguly

Tyler Reguly — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:38:46 +0000

Corrine,

You’ll be happy to know that Ryan (from numerophobe.com) and myself are redoing the list and will be releasing what we consider to be an actual Top XX List..

LonerVamp,

Thanks for the history… btw how are ya coming on the VERT Challenge.. did you put anything together?

By: LonerVamp

LonerVamp — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:05:17 +0000

That list has been out a while now, but it was “rebranded” to be that top 59 whatever list. Previously it was just someone’s list of sites that were on that site. And yes, Fyodor was mispelled then too.

Of note, if you actually read closely on the snippets, it becomes very curious whether the author even reads some of them or knows them at all.

By: Corrine

Corrine — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:39:43 +0000

“I may release what I consider to be a more accurate list in the near future.”

Yes, please do.