Re: Paul Asadoorian of PaulDotCom Enterprises / Podcast is ridiculous

[n3td3v <xploitable () gmail com>]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Trevow Andrews
<trevorandrws3456 () yahoo com> wrote:
> I'm sorry, I just saw his talk at NS2008 on Embedded Device Security and it
> is wholely outdated. I can't believe people listen to this man talk. He's
> been going on this embedded device security thing for years now and it's all
> years old. His book on hacking WRT54G, which was at SANS, had nothing about
> the new OpenWRT Kamikaze release, but was instead about the old White
> Russian release. Way to stay with the times buddy. Me and a few students
> noticed many of the tutorials were directly copied from tutorials on the
> internet.
>
> This speaks really bad for Sans. I'm here because my employer in the
> financial industry sent me, and it's been nothing but shit. I tried
> listening to the PaulDotCom podcast and it's riddled with inaccuracies and
> passive agressive fights bewteen Larry and Paul over which name is on the
> show title. Pauldotcom... have an ego much Paul?
>
> I wouldn't hire Paul Asadoorian or Pauldotcom Enterprises to pen test an
> Apple 2, he wouldn't be able to because there are no Core Security wizards
> to test against an Apple 2.
>
> His technical ability is that of a freshman at a technical college. He
> repeatedly makes mistakes and clearly doesn't know much about advanced
> security techniques outside of mass GUI pen testing suites. I think even
> having a podcast knocks anyone down a few points, but having a podcast and
> failing at the subject matter is just gross negligence.
>
> No real research has even come out of Paul and Larry, no real anything has
> ever come out of Paul and Larry except for advertisments and bumps.
>
> Larry Pesce is obviously the brains behind Pauldotcom. He is the only person
> who has actually made original things and done original research.
>
> Larry if you read this, go off on your own, Paul is dragging you down.
>
> I hope Sans reconsiders Paul's talks in the future, they are overly boring
> and out of date.

The last pauldotcom podcast I listen to was this was one,
http://pauldotcom.com/2008/06/pauldotcom-security-weekly-epi-152.html
perhaps the most retarded podcast i've ever heard.

I'm not going to listen to pauldotcom anymore, and i've already
stopped reading the SANS internet storm center diary, and their
podcast.

I don't want to read/listen to anything by people who threaten people
with violence on mailing lists or on irc channels.

They just lost my respect and probably a lot of other peoples.

You're not alone in what you say, I was on the mailing list talking
about them long before you were.

They are scaring away the people they should be attracting, YOUNG
people, the next generation.

In short, Joel Esler and PaulDotCom are arseholes and between them
they are ruining what SANS used to be, respected.

They should get rid of Joel Esler and PaulDotCom and the other
arseholes, that would make a start to SANS getting credibilty back and
maybe a little respect.

All the best,

n3td3v

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