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Black Hat, DEFCON Founder Named CSO of ICANN
ancientribe writes "Jeff Moss, aka 'The Dark Tangent,' and founder of the Black Hat security conference and DEFCON, the world's largest hacker conference, has been named VP and CSO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Moss will take on the position of Black Hat Conference Chair, where he will continue to play a key role in the development of conference and training content."
Kudos.
ICANN haz Black Hat?
"the development of conference and training content"
Jeebus.
Who did he piss off?
.. a vulnerability in the process for finding new ICANN VPs has recently been discovered.
Any exploits for this are currently unknown.
...someone who knows the the fuck they are doing in a regulatory position for the internet.
Sadly, a Libertarian cannot force his views on another, and freedom cannot spread as does the cancer known as religion.
EVER!
That misuse really annoys me. People who use synthetic grammars and syntaxes for a living should be able to use the ones in natural languages as well.
ICANN's always been about Intellectual Property, not the Internet Protocol. So they DO have some idea about what job they're doing and how it works, it's just not what you or I wanted to have them doing. And they spent a long time making sure community involvement in their policy-making didn't happen (such as Karl Auerbach's membership on their board), because internet users were not the community they were working for.
And yeah, I'm glad they hired him.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
He always was politically astute.
I think Jeff will do well, and told him as much. He's walking into an inherently political environment, and he has demonstrated his ability to be diplomatic in groups of mixed stakeholders. Perhaps more importantly, he isn't beholden to any one particular vendor, regulator or constituency, which is important if you ever have to make difficult decisions in the public eye.
Jeff has been doing this shit since 1992.
Back in 1992, did you care enough about computer security to organize a worldwide fucking conference on the topic?
If the answer is no, and I know it is, shut the fuck up and let the man enjoy it.
My first time was DefCon V in 1997.and that was also the day that I learned that there were people that were actually doing the shit that I had been thinking about.
Free Kevin! Viva Las Dark Tangent!
See that "Preview" button?
Remember the dark side is the fun side of the force, go get drunk smoke something and pick a fight with a Storm Trooper http://www.fluxradio.org/vader.mp3 ha ha ha
All cows eat grass!
Absolutely no peer-review before a presenter is accepted. The result? The presentations consist mostly of attention-seeking morons who present half-hoaxes and half-misleading garbage as "a new class of attacks", etc. etc. I would not hire that guy even to bring me coffee.
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i dont care why they need cookies but i refuse to let everyone store shit on my computer. prove yourself first and th-oh wait nevermind.
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nothing black hat about it.YOU tell your not black hat
Moving from a position managing a room full of loudmouth self-aggrandisers with an inflated sense of their own technical ability to...