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Education or Stock Price?
From: Paul Wouters <paul () xelerance com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 12:44:05 -0400 (EDT)
I've become very frustrated with all the (new and old) security conferences that are only an excuse to hit the media with a 0day in the hopes to sell a product or raise the organisers stock price, instead of focussing on structural security improvements. I was asked to speak at Infosecurity Canada. Their registration email contains: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <!-- saved from url=(0093)file://C:Documents and SettingsHubalJLocal SettingsTemporary Internet FilesOLK2CEM9.htm --> <HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:v = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><HEAD><TITLE>Infosecurity Canada - June 12-14, 2007</TITLE> If people (or in this case, I guess Mrs Hubal) from the security conference itself blindly copy & pastes material from urls into their emails without checking the content, how are they capable of teaching people anything? Really, just admit that it's a sales show and not an educational event. No, I don't have a sexy exploit to raise your stock price. And as a sidenote, I do look forward to the day it becomes known w3.org has been compromised and all email of certain vendors are spreading viri with their DTD's. Paul _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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