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Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:51:20 -0500
From: <neal.krawetz@....hush.com>
To: <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>, <george_ou@...architect.net>
Subject: Re: Security Researcher Not Particularly
	Humiliated

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HAHA!  I KNEW IT!

.... and I am only attracted to women, thank you very much.  Let's
leave the dog fucking to you and your kind.

No need to make this a personal flamewar.

- - neal

On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:31:44 -0500 George Ou
<george_ou@...architect.net> wrote:
>Neal, go find yourself a dog for a date.  Wait, I feel sorry for
>the dog, never mind.
>
>Where do we find these retards like Neal on this board.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: neal.krawetz@....hush.com [mailto:neal.krawetz@....hush.com]
>
>Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 4:27 PM
>To: raven@...eyedcrow.net; full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk;
>george_ou@...architect.net
>Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Security Researcher Not
>Particularly Humiliated
>
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>Aren't you the guy that is dating Kevin Mitnick?
>
>- - neal
>
>On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:07:14 -0500 George Ou
><george_ou@...architect.net> wrote:
>>Yeah that's a stupid accusation against you Raven.  He was
>>suggesting
>>somehow that if you get your machine owned then you can't be
>>protecting
>>other people's computers or something and that was really
>>retarded.  Yes he
>>WAS a troll.
>>
>>As for Apple going to the press to humiliate you, that's very
>>typical of
>>their PR operation.  After the SecureWorks incident and after I
>>spoke with
>>their PR, I know them all too well.  But even I'm shocked that
>>they would
>>bring your boyfriend in to this.
>>
>>Thanks for taking the tough questions from the audience.  Don't
>>mind this
>>jerk and don't mind Apple.  You have nothing to be ashamed of.
>>Keep up the
>>good work.
>>
>>
>>George Ou
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk
>>[mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk] On Behalf Of
>>Raven Alder
>>Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 2:00 AM
>>To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
>>Subject: [Full-disclosure] Security Researcher Not Particularly
>>Humiliated
>>
>>Hiya --
>>
>>> Security conference staff needs to do a better job of screening
>>> their audiences to prevent this sort of harassment during
>>> presentations. I must admit that I am afraid to present at
>>future
>>> conferences if there is the possibility of being humiliated
>like
>>> this during my talks.
>>
>>	As the researcher in question, I didn't feel particularly
>>humiliated.  Sure, I thought the guy was a troll, but I figured
>>that he
>>was just being a jerk to me because he had some chip on his
>>shoulder and
>>couldn't find anything to complain about in my talk.  But really,
>>his
>>big tac-nuke against me was that there was some undisclosed bug
>in
>>Apple's code?  That's hardly my fault.  I don't write their OS,
>>and the
>>thing was fully patched, firewalled, hardened, and still got
>>popped.
>>Shit happens.
>>
>>	I didn't go public with it because I wanted a smoking gun first.
>>Security is very much a "show me" industry, and I didn't want to
>>make
>>claims that I couldn't substantiate.  I did approach Apple, and
>>they
>>pretty much blew me off.  I sent them a detailed event report,
>>offered
>>up my system for forensic analysis, and offered to help in any
>way
>>I
>>could.  They went to the press, gave a reporter my name (I had
>not
>>gone
>>to the press), and dished some crap about how I let my boyfriend
>>use my
>>computer and he probably did something to disable my firewall and
>>cause
>>it to auto-own itself or something.  Dude.  My boyfriend does not
>>have
>>admin permissions on my machine, for starters.  Way to help,
>>Apple.
>>
>>	After realizing that Apple were not my friends and were more
>>interested in their PR spin than they were in finding and fixing
>>the
>>problem, I stopped talking to them.  I had several OS X geeks
>have
>>a
>>look at the system, and none of them were able to find anything
>>more
>>conclusive than I did.  Forensics geeks, same thing.  So, I
>dumped
>>the
>>filesystem for posterity, vowed that no OS X box was going on a
>>hostile
>>network again, and reformatted the thing.
>>
>>	Sorry, folks, but I'm not going to share my filesystem dump with
>>people that I do not already know and trust.  Don't even ask.
>>
>>	Not even if you're Apple.  You leak my name to the press when
>>I'm trying to help you find your flaw, you get no more help from
>>me.
>>
>>	All of this is pretty irrelevant to the talk I gave.  Still, I
>>don't feel that audience screening is the way to solve the
>problem
>>-- I
>>don't want to quash honest questions and interest in the projects
>>I'm
>>working on, and I think any screening that wouldn't be trivially
>>defeated by lying-fu would be draconian enough to be detrimental
>>to free
>>and open discourse.  There are always going to be trolls.  I
>think
>>the
>>audience and convention response was about as good as it could
>>have been
>>-- the troll got told off by several people, two of them with the
>>mike,
>>but it was pretty clear that most people were more interested in
>>the
>>technical content of the talk than they were in his effort to get
>>my
>>goat.  The conference organizers offered sympathy, and that was
>>kind of
>>them; I believe the guy got pitched out of the con for going on
>to
>>harass a few other folks too.  Charming gent.
>>
>>	So, really, I don't think I have anything to be ashamed of, and
>>I certainly don't feel humiliated.  I can see why getting ad
>>hominem
>>questions might make getting up on stage more intimidating for
>>future
>>speakers, but I don't intend to let that shut me up.  [grin]
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Raven
>>
>>--
>>@
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