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Message-ID: <82abd3a70806040451w75a568b7n18d08595e7480bd6@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:51:45 +0100
From: "Michael Simpson" <mikie.simpson@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: tool announcements (was: ARP handler Inspection tool released)
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 02:41:48PM -0800, Jonathan Smith wrote:
> > I wholeheartedly agree.
>
> Thank you for commenting on this. Your opinion is appreciated and may
> affect our moderation policy. At this point, I am not sure if it is the
> prevailing opinion of this group, though.
>
> > Announcements of this kind belong on bugtraq/FD
>
> Maybe. However, many topics are valid on Bugtraq - not only Open Source
> ones. I imagine that someone could be interested in security tool
> announcements relevant to Open Source software only. Also, Bugtraq is
> so large that few of us would dare to bother its readers with
> announcements of new versions of a tool, even fairly major ones.
>
> As to full-disclosure, we all know that there's a lot of noise on that
> list. I'd rather not join it, although I like to receive occasional
> announcements of security tools.
I agree
FD's signal to noise ratio has plummeted in the last few years and is
only really useful as entertainment.
There was a secfocus mailing list for beta-announces
<betaannounce@...urityfocus.com>
which seems to have died a death
Having just gone into production with an OSS webapp i would really
appreciate an oss-sectools list.
best wishes
mike
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