[attrition] Attrition is now recruiting..

[security curmudgeon]

Attrition is now recruiting..
Thu Jun 16 20:56:01 EDT 2005
jericho at attrition.org

After a year or more of stagnation, I have an urge to get two sections of 
the web site back up and running, and keep them updated regularly. Neither 
is glamorous, but such is the life of staff here.

Compensation: None! Vounteers will not get paid. No hookers, no cocaine, 
no trips to the Caribbean. On a good day you will see ascii pornography 
when you type your favorite unix editor. On a great day, you get mocked 
and/or molested by other staff members. On the up side, you do get a shell 
account here for e-mail, irc and other such activity. With that will be 
some insulting email address aliases pointing to you to further burden you 
with spam.

Interested? Read on!

First: The easy one! The attrition advisory archive needs tender care and 
fondling. This is a no-brainer task for the most part, but will take time 
initially to get it in good shape. Tasks include standardizing file names, 
figuring a better sorting method, remove extraneous headers from extracted 
advisories, etc. Once everything is taken care of, fill in the missing 
advisories and keep it updated.

You will be master of the archive (which gets decent traffic), be famous 
for your thankles and tireless work, and maybe earn a beer or three if you 
show up to the same city i happen to be in.

Second: The hard one! The Errata section has been stagnant too long. It 
was recently updated to spotlight Michelle 'Wag the' Delio and her 
tendancy to fudge on sources for news. This piece of attrition needs work 
more than ever, with the security industry in such bad shape. Tasks will 
be updating the page with errata, charlatans and other news of interest. 
Standardizing the content, figuring out a better way to organize, adding 
meta content to the pages to ensure google searches find the truth before 
the lies, etc.

This can be a fairly intensive project. Not only do I have years worth of 
material that needs updating, there are hundreds (thousands?) of articles 
that should be included and referenced. The upside is, this project needs 
to be done, now more than ever. Being an industry watchdog can suck, but 
the virtual hard-on you get after sticking it to the people polluting our 
industry is worth it.

Interested? Have what it takes? Contact me. Tell me why you think you are 
the person for the job, how much time you can devote, and something that 
tells me you have that certain spark to be among the damned.