[attrition] A Curmudgeonly Reply to an Anti-Curmudgeon Rant (in two parts)

[security curmudgeon]

http://attrition.org/~jericho/works/security/curmudgeon.html

A Curmudgeonly Reply to an Anti-Curmudgeon Rant (in two parts)
Fri May 27 04:29:16 CDT 2011

Bill Brenner wrote an article titled "Take the word curmudgeon and shove 
it" in which he makes relatively sweeping statements about the "people in 
security [that] call themselves curmudgeon". As one of the long-time 
security curmudgeons, I took offense to his article, calling it pathetic. 
Brenner was intrigued by that response and others and asked for a 
counterpoint post, something that was already in the works.

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