SPACE ROGUE

 

Why do you have a .net address instead of a .com?
I never felt I had a need for a personal web site and by the time I got around to registering one I found that spacerogue.com had already been taken. Spacerogue.com is currently owned by Kristian Marijn van Wezel. He has offered to sell me the domain for $10,000(US). Even if I had ten grand I damn sure wouldn’t waste it on a vanity domain. I thought about filing a dispute but even that costs $500.

So whats up with HNN, The Hacker News Network?
The Hacker News Network is in the process of being resurrected. So now after 10 years the “Voice of Reason” returns only this time in a video format. The @stake merger with L0pht spelled the end of the independent voice and crushed the underground news source and instead promoted corporate white papers rather than the “debunking” of security snake oil and the news of the computer underground. The Snake Oil, FUD and other shenanigans in the computer security industry never went away and the dumbed down level of reporting in the mainstream media still exists and is worse than ever. The Hacker News Network has returned with HNNCast and other shows to be announced soon, in an effort to expose, educate and spread the truth, not only about security but the news that involves the people of this community. The Hacker News Network and HNNCast have been redesigned to fit a new era in Internet based news broadcasting.

So with the return of HNN are you ever going to update your blog again?
Yes, yes, of course. This blog only gets updated when I have cool things to say like pointing our really stoopid brain dead security. Or when I have something interesting yet not news worthy to spout off about about. A lot of my ranting will probably end up over at HNN but I am sure some will spill over here from time to time.

So what the hell happened with L0pht and @Stake?
I was fired from @Stake on June 30th, 2000. It is probably best not to discuss the reasons. Just suffice it to say that the issues surrounding this event have been resolved to both @Stake’s and my satisfaction.

Why don’t you start up the WMA again?
While I have thought about pulling the Whacked Mac Archives out of mothballs now and then there just is not enough time in the day. The WMA is so woefully out of date at this point it would be easier to just start over again from scratch. However, I would rather work on something new. I have few other cool ideas in the back of my head that I want to implement. Just waiting on the technology to catch up with my ideas (that and the time and money to do it right.)

What happened to Hacker Intel?
No one visited the site so I took it offline. I was lead to believe that there was a great demand for a site of this type. Guess I was mislead or maybe it was my poor marketing. We are going to try it one more time by resurrecting The Hacker News Network Lets hope this time it works.

So what the hell are you doing these days?
Lately I have been managing IT for various firms in the Boston area. If you have a cool or interesting project that you think I might be interested in let me know.