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. -- GeNUA mbH --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Lightning Console aggregates IDS events, correlates them with vulnerability info, reduces false positives with the click of a button, anddistributes this information to hundreds of users. Visit Tenable Network Security at http://www.tenablesecurity.com to learn more. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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