From: Stan Hanks (stan@tta.com)
Date: Tue Jul 08 2003 - 13:23:55 EDT
I sent this to Al, who asked me to post it to the list:
> Al,
>
> I think that some of the points made by at least one public posting on this
> are well-founded. I don't have any problem with people knowing what I have
> to say, but then, I've been doing this for a long, long time (my alternative
> email address, stan@rice.edu, went on-line as part of the field testing of
> DNS in '83, if that tells you anything). I have colleagues who for various
> reasons can't afford "exposure" -- they're professionals inside corporations
> doing jobs they don't want to be doing just to pay the rent in the down
> economy, but their passion and interests lie in the security field. Or
> even in some cases, God help 'em, in the "exploit" field. In any event,
> having someone show your boss a posting you wrote about how to probe
> the XYZ gizmo that he just spent a ton of dough on is *NOT* a career
> enhancing move.
>
> Maybe a good middle ground is to allow semi-anonymous "'nyms" for people,
> but require that they use the same one, rather than using random different
> ones. And to prove to you, somehow, that there's a real human being behind
> "hackmaster153@hotmail.com"....
>
> Just a thought. Keep up the good work.
>
> Stan
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