Opinion

Security Wisdom Watch: Who Gets the Thumbs Up (and Down)?

CSO Senior Editor Bill Brenner looks at people, events and organizations making an impact on security for better or worse

By Bill Brenner, Senior Editor

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you want to find people you haven't cared about since kindergarten, but what started as a promising site for exchanging security ideas has quickly devolved into such stupidity as online snowball fights and vanity exercises like the "25 Random Things About Me." [Full disclosure: The author of this column admits to spending too much time on Facebook and filling out too many of those "Top 5" lists. He also confesses to doing his own 25 things list.][Slapped in the Facebook: Social Networking Dangers Exposed]

  • Thumbs both ways: LinkedIn groups -- This business-oriented social networking site is home to a rapidly expanding array of security groups, many of which have proven valuable for the author in his search for story sources. Those with groups include Black Hat, NAISG and ISSA. The problem is that there are now too many security groups, many of which share similar names. The full list is starting to resemble Twitter on a busy day.

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