Wow, some folks DO want security, not JUST dancing pigs
If you read my writings here from time to time,
you've probably heard me talk about my recent
experiments with email security, as well as my
laments about users who would choose to select the
proverbial dancing pigs instead of security.
Well, that was not the case here in Belgium this week at the OWASP regional chapter meeting. As I said here, I've been over here in Leuven, Belgium this week for SecAppDev. Well, at Tuesday's regional OWASP chapter meeting, I volunteered to assure any attendees' CAcert.org or Thawte.com x.509 security certificates, fully expecting a "turn-out" of just one or two folks. Instead, I ended up with a line of people during the session break. I ended up with some 12 identities to verify on the CAcert.org site.
I was utterly amazed and, frankly, encouraged by the experience. Admittedly, these folks were already security-minded technologists, or they wouldn't be attending a meeting of the Open Web Application Security Project, but even still, it's nice to see that there really are people who want to improve the state of email security.
Very nice, thanks guys!
Cheers,
Ken
Well, that was not the case here in Belgium this week at the OWASP regional chapter meeting. As I said here, I've been over here in Leuven, Belgium this week for SecAppDev. Well, at Tuesday's regional OWASP chapter meeting, I volunteered to assure any attendees' CAcert.org or Thawte.com x.509 security certificates, fully expecting a "turn-out" of just one or two folks. Instead, I ended up with a line of people during the session break. I ended up with some 12 identities to verify on the CAcert.org site.
I was utterly amazed and, frankly, encouraged by the experience. Admittedly, these folks were already security-minded technologists, or they wouldn't be attending a meeting of the Open Web Application Security Project, but even still, it's nice to see that there really are people who want to improve the state of email security.
Very nice, thanks guys!
Cheers,
Ken
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