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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:09:19 -0500
From: David Alanis <canito@...an.us>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: SecurityFocus to partially shut down

Quoting james o' hare <jamesohare69@...glemail.com>:

> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Clement Gamé  
> <clement@...i-nation.com> wrote:
>> all these twits,  blog entries and
>> else is a real pain in the ass and personnaly i have other things to do.
>> That's why we still need places that will collect, analyze and
>> redistribute the content coming from these multiple sources.
>
> That's our problem as a security community, its not me saying let's
> move to Twitter,
>
> I'm reporting on a trend that the security researchers have *already*
> moved to Twitter and are hardly ever on mailing lists anymore.
>
> People are treating me as if I'm trying to encourage people to get
> onto Twitter or something that isn't the case, what the case is
> security researchers are posting on Twitter NOT mailing lists anymore.
>
> The only people you're seeing on the mailing lists nowadays is
> security companies like ZDI and iDefense using mailing lists as a
> clearing house for customers who have sold vulnerabilities to them.
>
> There is no security researcher discussions or anything like there
> used to be on the mailing lists.
>
> However, there is an unprecedented amount of information being post by
> security researchers on Twitter.
>
> It's no infulence of mine or anyone else, its just the way its happened.
>
> Stop looking for people to blame for nobody posting on mailing lists anymore.
>
> Andrew
>
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So zero day exploits are being posted on Twitt?

Please let me know who and where can I find these accounts?

It would seem backwards if a security professional would post this  
type of information thus twitter gets 0wned here and there. It goes  
the same for a facebook full-disclosure group.

SDA

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