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Re: Re: Help put a stop to incompetent computerforensics
From: "Jason Coombs" <jasonc () science org>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 04:49:45 +0000 GMT
J.A. Terranson wrote:
SANS is a for profit corp., and was run as such even when they were playing possum as a non-profit. They are *not* a "disinterested third party" any more than the anti-virus firms are - and not many people would use *them* as an authoritative reference
To drive this point home, Newton's Telecom 'Dictionary' has some amazingly bad 'definitions' -- for example, the definition of 'multimedia' includes data that is transmitted or viewed by way of a fax machine. http://www.harrynewton.com/ Newton's 'definition' of 'Internet' starts out with a first-person narrative on how difficult it is to define the Internet. Pure crap. Anyone who puts effort into writing a book should be encouraged to publish it, but publishers (and readers) should care a little about commercial misuse of labels like 'dictionary' when the definitions have only a single biased author. There are some very impressive collaborative, community-developed computer dictionaries and encyclopedias. They do a nice job most of the time, because they are constantly peer-reviewed and corrected. Anyone presumptuous enough to arbitrarily define technical terms without considerable careful thought and then publish the arbitrary text and call it a 'dictionary' should be shot. Regards, Jason Coombs jasonc () science org _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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- Re: Re: Help put a stop to incompetent computerforensics Jason Coombs (Aug 10)
- Re: Re: Help put a stop to incompetent computerforensics ASB (Aug 11)
- Re: Re: Help put a stop to incompetent computerforensics Brian Anderson (Aug 11)
- Re: Re: Help put a stop to incompetent computerforensics J.A. Terranson (Aug 11)
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- Re: Re: Help put a stop to incompetent computerforensics Jason Coombs (Aug 11)
- Re: Re: Help put a stop to incompetent computerforensics Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 11)
- Re: Re: Help put a stop to incompetent computerforensics Erik Kamerling (Aug 11)
- Re: Re: Help put a stop to incompetent computerforensics Nick FitzGerald (Aug 11)
- Re: Re: Help put a stop to incompetent computerforensics Jason Coombs (Aug 12)
- Re: Re: Help put a stop to incompetent computerforensics Steve Friedl (Aug 12)
- [OT] (was Re: Re: Help put a stop to incompetent computerforensics) J.A. Terranson (Aug 12)
- Re: Re: Help put a stop to incompetent computerforensics Steve Friedl (Aug 12)