Re: SecurityFocus to partially shut down

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

Additionally, 

1) Twitter doesn't provide a proper archive functionality
2) when you find a reference to random Twitter page of unknown person you have to know is it reliable etc.

Juha-Matti

Chris [r0ck () operamail com] kirjoitti: 
> No doubt.  Twitter replacing FD is just absurd.  Sure.  Let's all move to a 3rd party service that: 
>
> 1) isn't profitable; 
>
> 2) is liable to do some crazy ass shit to start making money (i.e. get your FD twitters with ads in the future? 
> charge to post security vulns to the FD twitter feed?); and 
>
> 3) falls over and dies under heavy load.  Heaven forbid if some famous movie star dies, we might not get FD twitters 
> for weeks while Twitter struggles with the celebrity load.
>
> Email works.  Email is almost universally accessible.  Stick with what works.
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jean-Christophe Baptiste" <jc () phocean net>
> > To: full-disclosure () lists grok org uk
> > Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] SecurityFocus to partially shut down
> > Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:20:42 +0100
> >
> >
> > Not everyone yet uses Twitter and still it doesn't work or look like a
> > mailing-list, so you can't compare.
> >
> > Thery  all show the info in a different way, so they are all complementary .
> >
> > Le samedi 13 mars 2010 23:30:37, james o' hare a écrit :
> > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:19 PM,  <bugtraq () cgisecurity net> wrote:
> > > > Maybe in 10 years securityfocus will comeback?
> > >
> > > I see Twitter becoming the new way to disclose vulnerabilities,
> > > Securityfocus is kind of old fashioned now.
> > >
> > > I don't really see a need for Full-disclosure mailing list now either.
> > >
> > > People can post code and messages on blogs and post the link to
> > > Twitter, thats how the threat landscape of the future will look, we
> > > don't really need mailing lists now for straight forward vulnerability
> > > disclosure.
> > >
> > > Andrew
> > >
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