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I still remember the wonderful times when press simply was not welcome on hacker (security) conferences. OpenBSD even sold a "NO COMMENT" shirt at HAL2001 (Twe
by lynx23 2y ago
I still remember the wonderful times when press simply was not welcome on hacker (security) conferences. OpenBSD even sold a "NO COMMENT" shirt at HAL2001 (Twente). Years later, all that sentiment was (sadly) gone. As if there could come anything good from uninformed journalists writing about deeply techy topics.
- Dylan16807 2y agoYour comment seems to ignore the existence of informed tech people that also act as journalists?
- oarsinsync 2y agoAny recommendations for informed tech journalists?
- Dylan16807 2y agoJonathan Corbet is great, as the first example I thought of. I don't want to try to make a proper list right now, it feels like it would get nitpicky and waste an hour to do so, but I could point to a lot of sites and blogs that do good tech and security writeups. Many without a day job of "journalist", but in this context they'd still be filling the role as press.
- n_plus_1_acc 2y agonetzpolitik.org (German)
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y agoBrian Krebs comes to mind.
- homebrewer 2y agoJim Salter, though he no longer works in journalism afaik.
- tetris11 2y agofew and far between...
- krick 2y agoHonestly, I was kinda delighted that some "journalists" were offended enough to write this "no transparency" complaint. And I don't feel like this is some Bilderberg Meeting kind of thing, where I am restricted to get information. This community has enough of people who have blogs and twitter accounts, if something of real interest will be there, we'll know. And "professional" journalists... Yeah, I really don't like journalists.
- bigfatkitten 2y agoBack when hacker conferences existed, before they became corporate infosec cons. A lifetime ago.