Penetration Testing
Administrivia Jul 07 2003 05:50PM
Alfred Huger (ah securityfocus com) (1 replies)
Re: Administrivia Jul 08 2003 03:53PM
Volker Kindermann (bugtraq secspace de) (1 replies)
Re: Administrivia Jul 09 2003 07:30AM
Christine Kronberg (Christine_Kronberg genua de)

Hi,

> I'm a very seldom poster but frequent reader of many of the

So am I.

> securityfocus' lists. As such I have to tell you that I'm very concerned
> about your email regarding postings about products.
>
>
> > 1. If you want to post about a product positive or negative you
> > cannot do so from a Huhsmail or other such account.
>
> Please consider that there might be several good reasons to use such an
> account. The most important one is that you reveal valuable information
> about your company's network with some postings (e.g. "we have firewall
> xy, version a.b.c running and don't get it upgraded because...").

Which is not exactly the topic of this list. I do see your point,
yet I don't think that this is a problem in this list.
Read rule number 1 again: If you want to post ABOUT A PRODUCT ...
Using hushmail accounts are tempting for shooting against others
(like competitors, see below) pretending an unbiased opinion where
this is not the case.
I think the rule is good.

> A second reason would be avoiding to get spammed on the company's
> account. Web archives are known to be resources for spammers, too. That
> is no criticism of you or your company, that is a fact that noone can
> avoid and we have to live with it.

Spammers are not only harvesting web archives, they are on lists, too.
:-( Unfortunately it's unavoidable.

> > 2. If you plan to post use your real name or do not post.
>
> This is the same argument as above, regarding the first point of
> revealing information.

I disagree entirely. In my opinion people should stand with their
names for what they write. Anything else does not sound reliable
to me.

Cheers,

Chris Kronberg.

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