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Tqbf

Joined 20 July 2006

Thomas Ptacek. Deletionista.

The Primary Objective, or, "why I'm here"

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Remove Vanispamcruftisement from Wikipedia's under-policed computer security coverage.

Put more succinctly: pretend you're an article, and:

  • If you're a bio, and your subject has never (a) been in the news, (b) written a widely-cited paper, (c) authored a book, (d) discovered a critical vulnerability (or blazed a trail of minor ones), (e) run security for a Fortune-500 company or government agency, or (f) been incarcerated, my goal here is to delete you.
  • If you're about a company, and your subject's coverage in the trade press has been limited to 400 word shorts based on your own press releases, my goal here is to delete you.

This is painful for people to hear, but it's not painful for me to say. Please don't take it personally. Please consider: Wikipedia will likely be even more important 20 years from now. How likely is it that your article will make sense 20 years from now?

The Secondary Objective

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Improve Wikipedia's coverage of computer security topics by actually writing articles.

The First Rule Of Wikipedia Editing

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If an adjective is effective, it's probably POV, subjective, or nonverifiable. Write stereo instructions.

A Newly Discovered Second Rule Of Wikipedia Editing

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If you're going to create a sock puppet account to add a vanity page about yourself to the Wikipedia, don't name it after your company.

Articles I Have Given A Shit About

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ISCSI - Ioctl - CryptGenRandom - Mary Ann Davidson - Comparison of DNS server software - IPv4 address exhaustion

Stefan Savage - Daniel Bleichenbacher - qmail - Network Access Control - Hierarchical_internetworking_model

Zardoz (computer security) - Firewalls and Internet Security

I'll get there, I'll get there! W/I/P: /Vulnerability Research. Next, /Debugger.

Articles I Has Baleeted (or tried to)

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John Flowers - StankDawg - Blacklisted! 411 - Fawn (musician) - William Quinn (phreaker)‎ - Mark Anderson (Security)

Butchered From Inside - The Syndicate Of London - Gary Miliefsky - Vinod Mohan - BR Magazine - William J. Coldwell

Carlos Jimenez (businessman) - Simon Johnson (security expert) - Whitedust - Tomas Beaujean - Packet monkey(redir)

David A. Wheeler - Summer of worms - Hackcon - Hacker Voice Radio - Max Bianchi Godoy - Mark Hinge

Digital DawgPound - Jonathan Shapiro - Common Body of Knowledge - Miliefsky!!!!!!!!!!! - Radio FreeK America

Managed Security Metrics Provider - Melih Abdulhayoglu(redir) - SecurDisc - Holistic Information Security Practitioner

If it's red, America won.

Stop hating America.

A Few World Experts In Cryptography

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  • Adi Shamir - The S in RSA, co-inventor of differential.

A Few Notable World Experts In Security

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  • Bunnie Huang - Xbox Cracker Team, Has Scanning Electron Microscope in Kitchen
  • Elias Levy - Catalysed buffer overflow renaissance.
  • Vern Paxson - Famous Malware/Internet Security Researcher

Notable Venues For Security/Crypto Research

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  • RSA - A second tier crypto venue, though a first tier industry venue.
  • Black Hat - The top vulnerability research conference. Peer reviewed, selective.
  • Defcon - A second-tier research venue related to Black Hat.
  • CanSecWest - A first tier vulnerability research venue.
  • SANS - A prolific industry venue, though not prominent for original research.

Smaller Recurring Venues

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  • OWASP - A monthly meeting of web security professionals
  • ISSA - A regular meeting of security professionals

None of these are "notable" speaking events; you can speak at one just by asking.

All Of The Notable Security News Publications

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  • eWeek - Larry Seltzer and Lisa Vaas, ZDnet

I'm missing a bunch of these. Will get there, and then get to work.

Flair

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