Forced Attrition by Carole Fennelly

2001-05-29 14:36

http://www.wkeys.com/articles/CF/attrition.html One of my favorite bookmarks is attrition.org. Offering computer security candor often wrapped around a raised middle finger, Attrition is best known for hosting the Web's largest collection of defacement mirrors. But no longer. The site recently announced it will no longer maintain the mirror that made it infamous. http://www.attrition.org/news/content/01-05-21.001.html This announcement has led to widespread rumours and speculations on the motivations behind this move and possible side-effects most of them wrong. The most common misconception is that Attrition is "logging off" or "throwing in the towel" because the staff can't keep up with web site defacements. Attrition stafferBrian Martin, better known as "Jericho" graciously took some time out of his swamped schedule to answer some questions on the subject. Q & A with Jericho of attrition.org Q: I've seen quite a few headlines that refer to Attrition as "retiring" or "throwing in the towel". What's your response to these statements? A: Attrition is certainly not retiring or going away. We are simply retiring a single aspect of the site at this time, just as we have with others in the past. The mirror was one of the higher profile parts of attrition, thus some people making hasty remarks about us 'going away'. It is unfortunate that they have missed out on the rest of the site all this time. [...] ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email isn-unsubscribe () SecurityFocus com

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