Black Hat, DEFCON Founder Named CSO of ICANN 41
ancientribe writes "Jeff Moss, aka 'The Dark Tangent,' and founder of the Black Hat security conference and DEFCON, the world's largest hacker conference, has been named VP and CSO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Moss will take on the position of Black Hat Conference Chair, where he will continue to play a key role in the development of conference and training content."
can't resist (Score:5, Funny)
ICANN haz Black Hat?
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ICANN haz Black Hat?
Sir, If I had mod points, you would of had some of them.
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Would HAVE. </grammarnazi>
And if I had some mod points you would have some too.
Of the -1 Off Topic variety. :)
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The reason people do this is because the word 'have'and the word 'of' have exactly the same pronunciation when unstressed. They both are realized with a schwa vowel and a voiced labiodental fricative /v/. It's not an arbitrary mistake, and interestingly the merger of the two words in this environment doesn't hamper vocal communication.
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This linguistic confusion is especially wrong coming from someone who, at the very least, is a hobbyist programmer (I checked Icegryphon's post history,
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"Have" does not sound like "of", even when unstressed. What is being confused is "would've" vs "would of", the former obviously being a contraction of "would have".
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So why is it so common to read "would of" but rare to read any of: ...?
- would huff
- wood of
- wood have
- woo dove
a fitting end (Score:2)
"the development of conference and training content"
Jeebus.
Who did he piss off?
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It would be a mistake to confuse a founder of a company who later sells it with some hired hand. There's no shame in moving on to different things or diversifying your interests after a "favorable exit" (to use a term of art from the VC world).
Unrelated to this.. (Score:5, Funny)
.. a vulnerability in the process for finding new ICANN VPs has recently been discovered.
Any exploits for this are currently unknown.
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>>.. a vulnerability in the process for finding new ICANN VPs has recently been discovered.
Didn't the ICANN just recently switch to electronic voting?
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ICANN vote? You must be kidding. Never mind that's what the USG told them to do in 1999.
Finally (Score:5, Insightful)
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ICANN thinks IP is Intellectual Property (Score:2)
ICANN's always been about Intellectual Property, not the Internet Protocol. So they DO have some idea about what job they're doing and how it works, it's just not what you or I wanted to have them doing. And they spent a long time making sure community involvement in their policy-making didn't happen (such as Karl Auerbach's membership on their board), because internet users were not the community they were working for.
And yeah, I'm glad they hired him.
Best ... social ... engineering... (Score:5, Funny)
EVER!
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It's ICANN...
Makes sense (Score:2)
He always was politically astute.
He has what it takes (Score:2)
I think Jeff will do well, and told him as much. He's walking into an inherently political environment, and he has demonstrated his ability to be diplomatic in groups of mixed stakeholders. Perhaps more importantly, he isn't beholden to any one particular vendor, regulator or constituency, which is important if you ever have to make difficult decisions in the public eye.
Fuck all y'all (Score:2)
Jeff has been doing this shit since 1992.
Back in 1992, did you care enough about computer security to organize a worldwide fucking conference on the topic?
If the answer is no, and I know it is, shut the fuck up and let the man enjoy it.
My first time was DefCon V in 1997.and that was also the day that I learned that there were people that were actually doing the shit that I had been thinking about.
Free Kevin! Viva Las Dark Tangent!
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There were plenty of conventions before defcon (e.g. HoHoCon, SummerCon, CCC, etc)
Get off my lawn..
The Dark Side of the force (Score:1)
Remember the dark side is the fun side of the force, go get drunk smoke something and pick a fight with a Storm Trooper http://www.fluxradio.org/vader.mp3 [fluxradio.org] ha ha ha
Black Hat is the worst of all conferences (Score:1)
Absolutely no peer-review before a presenter is accepted. The result? The presentations consist mostly of attention-seeking morons who present half-hoaxes and half-misleading garbage as "a new class of attacks", etc. etc. I would not hire that guy even to bring me coffee.
how appropriate (Score:2)
Moving from a position managing a room full of loudmouth self-aggrandisers with an inflated sense of their own technical ability to...