Never Bring A Knife To A Gun Fight

By Rich | December 13, 2007

Oh no he didn’t!

http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/blog/2007/12/breaking-news-s.html

I should be crossing the border back to the US in about 12 hours.

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windexh8er 2007-12-15
I find this a little funny and disturbing at the same time. The word hypocrite comes to mind with regards to practicing what you preach. In the end I think the way Chris went about this was over the top, but it needed to be done to point out the "paper certs" with regards to security professionals. Compliance and technical security are too disparate and the compliance gurus are usually horrible at implementation—case in point. I do, however, feel that Chris' CISSP should be revoked for breaking the code of ethics. My post on his site can be found here: http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/blog/2007/12/breaking-news-s.html#comment-93664732 I might suggest a little more network security for home Rich. Hopefully you'‘re not a WRT54G dork like some of the rest of the "network security professionals" podcasting. What a joke.
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rmogul 2007-12-15
Okay- just posted that this was a joke, I wasn'‘t hacked. Windexh8r- I'‘m sure someone could hack me with enough effort, but it isn'‘t going to be *that* easy. I definitely practice what I preach, from system hardening at home to encrypting my laptop, to a crazy-long WPA passphrase. The blog will probably get hacked at some point since it's hosted and I'‘m limited in what I can do to protect it. I haven'‘t updated to the 2.3 series since it had functionality improvements but no security updates. It will be going in over the holidays though.
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tkrabec 2007-12-14
I hope this means war. I love to watch/participate in practical joke wars. I just hope you can find a nice security research project for Hoff to participate in, perhaps some security related project on Phone companies and persons authorized to make changes to phone orders or cancellation? —Tim
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romandas 2007-12-14
[...] Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight [...]
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Andy Willingham 2007-12-13
Rich, You realize that if this is true this it the biggest security story of the year. :) You will have a long roe to hoe to live this down.
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anonymous 2007-12-13
Hi Rich, Big fan of your blog. I also am a fan of the tile you are using outside of your house. I am however not a fan of your car. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas!