NMRC Partners and Advisory Board
Here at NMRC, we strive to break the old security paradigms, think outside
the box, and provide synergistic new pinnacles of heightened market awareness.
By relying on a virtual neural network of security and consulting brainpower,
we fully expect to exceed expectations imposed upon our economy by lesser
minds who do not yet grasp the full capability of our desires to achieve
excellence.
In keeping with that trend plainly outlined in the previous paragraph, we
would like to announce our list of Strategic Partners:
In addition, we have formed an Advisory Board of industry visionaries,
prolific mavens, and other retro-egalitarian profiteers to guide us to
pre-IPO financial harmonyism. Here are the Advisory Board members
with a brief quote of support from each one:
- Russ Cooper, Demigod Netizen - "As Surgeon General of the Internet, I can stake all of my
reputation on the fact that the commercialization of NMRC is one of the most
personally satisfying things in my years as the only responsible moderator
of a mailing list dealing with security."
- Steve Gibson, Amazing Packeteer - "Just like when I discovered DDoS,
discovering NMRC is proof positive that a) script kiddies are bad, b) people
love a good product at a fair price but REALLY LOVE
a great product at a high price, and c) grc.com will be down for yet another
4 days next week due to 13 year olds running XP and its evil
RAW PACKET capability. Shields Up, everyone!!"
- Janet Reno, former Attorney General - "I love this group. Especially the younger ones in the group. jrandom in particular just melts my butter."
- Michael Vatis, former NIPC leader - "Given my years with the FBI and NIPC, I can safely say
that the private sector has taught me three things. First, the quantity of
attractive women working in government is extremely lacking. Second, and I
say this with respect, Lew Koch can go fuck himself. Thirdly, NMRC's level
of hackery is right up there with the best of them."
- Bruce Schneier, Crypto Genius - "When I first heard the announcement of NMRC's
commercialization, I lept at the chance to be on the Advisory Board. Some
people collect coffee mugs from high tech companies, I collect Advisory Board
memberships."
- Scott Culp, Microsoft Security Mouthpiece - "Had we known what pushovers NMRC would be for our 'seed
money' to help them get their project up and running, we would have
approached them years ago."
- Mike Moore, speech-giver at the 2001 annual meeting of the Trilateral
Commission in London - "It is time the WTO had a check-up and a reality check
as all middle-aged people and institutions should. Ironically, some NGOs and
pressure groups say the WTO has too much power. Then, after saying the WTO
has too much power, they want to load it with responsibilities that will
increase that power, whether it be regulating indigenous rights, or gender or
women's rights, or labor rights, or whatever. If that were to happen, then
the WTO really would be a threat to you all!" Click here for Mr. Moore's full
statement.
- Chris Rouland, ISS X-Force guy - "At ISS we don't hire hackers. Therefore working with
NMRC will be a piece of cake, because they are no more hackers than the
employees of the X Force are. Hackers are bad."
- Winn Schwartau, Chicken Little - "When it comes to protecting our nation's cyber-borders
from the implending electronic Pearl Harbor, my money is on NMRC. Should
there be an electronic 9-11, I stand with NMRC."
- Tsutomu Shimomura, CyberNinja - "At the first Advisory Board meeting, we met at
a restaurant in Arlington, Texas called The Tandoor. It was a small place,
but the Indian food was exquisite. I had a vegetable curry disk with rice,
and was quite impressed that such care had been taken in the preparation of
vegetables. Spicy but good. I was nervous at first because hellNbak was
sitting next to me and he had ordered the Beef Punjabi -- I was afraid of
him spilling the beef-laden sauce into the plate of rice we were sharing.
But hellNbak managed to stay his hand nicely. The golub jaman desert was
probably the perfect topper to the meal, in spite of the fact everyone else
was raving over the kulfi. Kulfi after vegetable curry? Were they serious?"
- Marcus Ranum, love child - "Hi! I'm Marcus! Is Russ going to throw a toga party?"
"I think this move for NMRC is great. I once saw a moose. Do you have a
sandwich?"
