RE: Any IEEE Security&Privacy readers here?

["Austin, Richard D" <richard.austin () hp com>]

Hello All,

        Please forgive the somewhat abuse of bandwidth on the list but I contacted Bill McCarty, the editor of IEEE 
S&P's "The Honeynet Files" and learned that the decision to discontinue the section was based on a reader survey done 
by the magazine.

        I know that we get dozens of these blasted surveys a week and many of us, like me, routinely delete them 
because we have too many other things competing for our time -- this is one time when our choices in time management 
have done us a disservice.  I intend to give them more attention in the future and hope those of you that are also IEEE 
members will as well.

        In an aside, Bill also mentioned that a new "Know Your Enemy" article is undergoing final review before posting 
at the www.honeynet.org web site and that they will be looking for other venues for something like "The Honeynet Files" 
articles.

Best regards.

| Richard Austin, MSc, MCSE, MCP+I
| Hewlett Packard
| EMAIL: Richard.Austin () hp com
| "From the character, the institutions, the situation and the circumstances of the adversary,
|  each side will draw its conclusions, in accordance with the laws of probability,
|  as to what the action of the other will be and determine its own accordingly."
| -- Karl von Clausewitz, On War


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Austin, Richard D
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 2:26 PM
> To: Stef; honeypots () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: Any IEEE Security&Privacy readers here?
>
> Hello All,
>
>       Rather than canceling your membership (though I share your
> displeasure), may I recommend expressing your sentiments to the editor
> of IEEE Security & Privacy?  After all, WE are the IEEE!!!
>
> Best regards.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stef [mailto:stefmit () gmail com]
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 3:40 PM
> To: honeypots () securityfocus com
> Subject: Any IEEE Security&Privacy readers here?
>
> How stupid! Just got my latest IEEE Security&Privacy issue (vol.2,
> nb.6, Nov/Dec 2004), and in the end of the "Honeynet Files" section I
> just read this:
>
> "A final farewell - Regular readers of The Honeynet Files department
> will notice its absence in upcoming issues. The department has been
> discontinued to allocate additional space [my note: what!?!? for the 2
> 1/2 pages it takes?!?] to content of interest to a wider audience. On
> behalf ... [bla,bla,bla]"
>
> I guess just by doing that IEEE lost me next year as a subscriber to
> this magazine, and probably as a member - and I am pretty sure some of
> my peers, also, with whom I was debating this change, just today, and
> who were sharing my opinion ... Point to make: if the
> honeypot/net/token technologies do not have room in a magazine of a
> reputable group, focused on security, than what's to be expected form
> the other ones ?!?
>
> Oh, well ...
>
> Stef