Internet Draft on Vulnerability Disclosures

Cowboy71 writes: "An interesting posting on Bugtraq by Stephen Christie announcing the release for comment of an internet-draft "Responsible Disclosure Process" document, prepared by himself and Chris Wysopal of @stake. You can view the full paper at the IETF site."

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First post

[Penguinoflight]

First POST!!

Re:First post

[Xxooss_Gemfyre]

troll Function: noun Date: 1869 a lure or a line with its lure and hook used in trolling troll Function: noun Etymology: Norwegian troll & Danish trold, from Old Norse troll giant, demon; probably akin to Middle High German trolle lout Date: 1616 a dwarf or giant in Scandinavian folklore inhabiting caves or hills I for one care less for them.

The Greatest Troll Ever?

[Anonymous Coward]

The last few months I have been doing some research into the trolling phenomenon on slashdot.org. In order to do this as thoroughly as possible, I have written both normal and troll posts, 1st posts, etc., both logged in and anonymously, and I have found these rather shocking results:

• More moderator points are being used to mod posts down than up. Furthermore, when modding a post up, every moderator seems to follow previous moderators in their choices, even when it's not a particularly interesting or clever post [slashdot.org]. There are a LOT more +5 posts than +3 or +4.
• Logged in people are modded down faster than anonymous cowards. Presumably these Nazi Moderators think it's more important to burn a user's existing karma, to silence that individual for the future, than to use the moderation system for what it's meant for : identifying "good" and "bad" posts (Notice how nearly all oppressive governments in the past and present do the same thing : marking individuals as bad and untrustworthy because they have conflicting opinions, instead of engaging in a public discussion about these opinions)
• Once you have a karma of -4 or -5, your posts have a score of -1 by default. When this is the case, no-one bothers to mod you down anymore. This means a logged in user can keep on trolling as much as he (or she) likes, without risking a ban to post on slashdot. When trolling as an anonymous user, every post starts at score 0, and you will be modded down to -1 ON EVERY POST. When you are modded down a certain number of times in 24 hour, you cannot post anymore from your current IP for a day or so. So, for successful trolling, ALWAYS log in.
• A lot of the modded down posts are actually quite clever [slashdot.org], funny [slashdot.org], etc., and they are only modded down because they are offtopic. Now, on a news site like slashdot, where the number of different topics of discussion can be counted on 1 hand, I must say I quite like the distraction these posts offer. But no, when the topic is yet another minor version change of the Linux kernel [slashdot.org], they only expect ooohs and aaahs about this great feat of engineering. Look at the moderation done in this thread [slashdot.org] to see what I mean.
• Digging deep into the history of slashdot, I found this poll [slashdot.org], which clearly indicates the vast majority does NOT want the moderation we have here today. 'nuff said.

Feel free to use this information to your advantage. I thank you for your time.

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Re:The Greatest Troll Ever?

[skilef]

Isn't this offtopic? ;)

Re:The Greatest Troll Ever?

[Anonymous Coward]

It is rumored that everyone who dared to moderate up the original post was deprived of metamod rights.

Now as slashdot relies on user contribution, posting this often enough maybe would cause slashdot to sabotage itself by the subsequent petty actions of it's crew. Funny idea, isn't it ? A dictatorship destroying its foundations by it's own censoring actions ...

Re:The Greatest Troll Ever?

[Anonymous Coward]

I would mod this post up but I can no longer moderate due to censorship on slashdot.

Re:The Greatest Troll Ever?

[Anonymous Coward]

Look at skilef: this guy posted never before I guess.. He makes a joke about the parent message being offtopic; nothing offtopic about that.. Got modded down -1 for offtopicness.. It's funny, but kind of sarcastic..

I can tell you one thing that's vulnerable...

[Melinda French]

...to attacks, especially by Bill's 22-inch man banana:
My juicy wet cunt....

Except there's been a problem. Bill's not interested. Do any of you guys who are into open sores want to fuck the wife of a billionaire? I can even arrange to have Steve Jobs and Bill Joy anally rape you one after the other!

Re:Alan Cox / DMCA / Open Source "vendors"

[Raleel]

thanks a bundle :) Now I will jsut add content while I wait for slashdot to let me post. Time delays suck for the fast typer