Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-20 Thread nnp
What's the Negative Public Relations Industry? On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Fionnbharr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PDP, I don't really need backing up, I think my stuff stands but it seems you haven't looked at it still. Reckon you could spell my name correctly though? I get enough typo's

Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-20 Thread Kern
The world does NOT need another Hacking Exposed. But it does need (and always will need) a modern book of Computer Security Fundamentals. There should be little to NO focus on tools (as these change quite often), the bulk of the focus should be on the Fundamentals and Standards; (I am mainly

Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-20 Thread Garrett M. Groff
Can emails like the one below be sent to the person not the entire list... for the benefit of all list members? Thanks. - G - Original Message - From: reepex To: Petko D. Petkov ; full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:26 PM Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure

Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-19 Thread Petko D. Petkov
Dear Reepex, Unfortunately, you've already lost all the respect for a larger portion of people on this mailing list as well outside of it. You have never led by example but by bashing people on what they try to accomplish. Everyone who has been in this industry/life style for long enough know

Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-19 Thread Petko D. Petkov
reepex, you are the only one backing up troth, read on all comments... I don't bash people. I encourage them and this is present in all my work and the work behind the GNUCITIZEN umbrella. Not I, but the crowd hanged him, as well they will hang you for your arrogant, egocentric, foolish and

Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-19 Thread Jay
consuming energies that could be better served hacking the [EMAIL PROTECTED] out of something. Jay - Original Message - From: Petko D. Petkov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk Sent: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:08:31 + Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure

Re: [Full-disclosure] [full disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-19 Thread Michael Krymson
I'm not sure a community book is going to make a lot of sense, have any coherency, or be all that useful. If you want a view of the future, go to packetstorm, grab up 100 random text how to's and see how well they read when placed back to back as a book. It won't be pretty. It'll read worse (or

Re: [Full-disclosure] [full disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-19 Thread Petko D. Petkov
Michael, I have no clue how it will go. However, just because no one has done it and there are too many IFs, it does not mean that we should not approach this problem. If we manage to find a way to crowdsource all the information in a timely manner, keep up-to-date with the latest and be at the

Re: [Full-disclosure] [full disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-19 Thread don bailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have no clue how it will go. However, just because no one has done it and there are too many IFs, it does not mean that we should not approach this problem. Actually attempting to submit the book to a publisher would probably not work because

Re: [Full-disclosure] [full disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-19 Thread don bailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 try me. No thanks. I am quite confident that we can make this project into a salable book but that's not the point. the point is to accumulate valuable knowledge into one place and if, if this start making some money you will decide what to

Re: [Full-disclosure] [full disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:30:08 -, Petko D. Petkov said: moreover, the project is not a Phrack knock-off as you said. It is very different. As I said, it wont contain explanations but like hands on tips/tricks and techniques even the most knowledgeable can learn from or use as a base

Re: [Full-disclosure] [full disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-19 Thread reepex
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % ps ax | grep '[x]yzzy' | wc -l you could also teach people the -c parameter to grep but I am just a troll ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter:

Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-19 Thread reepex
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Petko D. Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you are the only one backing up troth, read on all comments.. You are very dense. All the people posting bad about thoth have not seen his work either. They are mindless sheep following your bad example. Have you

Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-19 Thread reepex
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:49 AM, nnp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Man, you're wasting your breath with these people. There's no point in arguing with someone who's willing to title something as 'The best book ever'. Common sense says that unless you're going to get experts from every

Re: [Full-disclosure] [full disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:46:12 CDT, you said: you could also teach people the -c parameter to grep but I am just a troll And as I pointed out, that was the *second* teachable moment.. ;) pgpONbXBsGfRz.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Full-Disclosure

Re: [Full-disclosure] [full disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-19 Thread reepex
I think this post sums up best the problem with the hacking exposed series and the direction pdp's book is going. Hacking exposed does not explain anything it only teaches tools and results. I much prefer books like 'hacking the art of exploitation', 'the art of software security assessment',

Re: [Full-disclosure] [full disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-19 Thread coderman
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:42 PM, reepex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I much prefer books like 'hacking the art of exploitation', 'the art of software security assessment', and 'secrets of reverse engineering' because they are tool agnostic and teach the low level concepts that are going on.

Re: [Full-disclosure] [full disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-19 Thread Michael Krymson
I don't disagree at all with any of your post except the part that no one has done this before. I think there are tons of communities online that share information and maybe even document it on a website, from forums to wikis to expert-exchange type places to exploit archives to mailing list

Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-19 Thread Fionnbharr
PDP, I don't really need backing up, I think my stuff stands but it seems you haven't looked at it still. Reckon you could spell my name correctly though? I get enough typo's with my real name let alone people messing up 'thoth' (though 6 letter minimum for gmail account names meant I had to put

Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-18 Thread Petko D. Petkov
reepex, I know how much I know and I know that you fall into the group of lamers, trolls and all other unfriendly inhabitants (you know who you are) of full-disclosure who are incapable of showing what they know and incapable of producing anything of a value so that they keep doing what they do

Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-18 Thread T Biehn
This reads like a troll, all it's missing is the QED after the last sentence. Awesome work PDP. On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Petko D. Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reepex, I know how much I know and I know that you fall into the group of lamers, trolls and all other unfriendly

Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-18 Thread reepex
Just because you call me troll doesn't mean you should ignore my questions. Who is your book aimed towards? You said this will be the ' best hacking reference/manual/book ever made' . Doesn't that mean it should contain lots of low level/kernel level exploitation of which you are incapable?

[Full-disclosure] Agile Hacking

2008-03-18 Thread Petko D. Petkov
http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/agile-hacking/ Help us create the best hacking reference/manual/book ever made. We provide the scene, the resources and the money, and you keep the credits and the control over the eventual profits. Read on. During the next couple of months we are open for your

Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-18 Thread Petko D. Petkov
well, let's see how it goes On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 7:19 PM, reepex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just because you call me troll doesn't mean you should ignore my questions. Who is your book aimed towards? You said this will be the ' best hacking reference/manual/book ever made' . Doesn't that

Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-18 Thread reepex
I see thoth responded negatively to your project and again you assume that if someone bashes you that he/she has no skill and is just trolling. This means you obviously were not as his kiwicon talk or read the slides ( not that you would understand them ) but it shows how arrogant you are. you

Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-18 Thread reepex
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Nate McFeters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't consider myself a 'kiddie' and I've considered contributing to it. I feel like the old adage of blowing out someone elses flame to make yours burn brighter applies here. Reepex, I didn't get a chance to see your

Re: [Full-disclosure] agile hacking?

2008-03-18 Thread Nate McFeters
Ok, I'll buy that, that's reasonable. I wasn't in the exchange with thoth. I guess when I read about a community project to write the ultimate hacking book, I assumed people from all backgrounds of security would be interested in contributing... maybe that's a bit of a Utopian view, but I could