Never Bring A Knife To A Gun Fight

Written by rmogull | Filed under Non-Geek, Off Topic | 7 comments

7 comments

1. Andy Willingham Dec 14

   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.

2. anonymous Dec 14

   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!

3. tkrabec Dec 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

4. romandas Dec 15

   Funny if true.. though, I think it a bit ‘unseemly’ to predict something then cause it, thereby making it ‘true’.

   Though.. why were your home controls on something Internet-connected? :)

   On another note, nice blog. I’ve come here from listening to the Network Security Podcast. Keep up the good work.

5. windexh8er Dec 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.

6. rmogull Dec 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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