I really wonder sometimes why I don’t just give up and accept that the computer security industry that I once loved, that I researched, and in a small way helped blossom…

That that industry has now gone mass market – in a rather tongue-in-cheek way and we who were there in the early years are now irrelevant in a world where innovation is creating a new set of skins for Gnome XMMS / WinAmp.

Am American colleage I spoke with recently said that at times he just wants to pack-it-in and “go run a hardware store”.

I sympathise. I also present, linked from [www.insecure.org] :

HaXXXor – Naked Chicks Teach You To Hack
Volume 1 – No Longer Floppy
Volume 2 – Fear of an 8-bit planet

> cat ~/DVD_Features

Re: Volume 1:

This First-Of-It’s-Kind DVD contains some excellent scenes. We begin with the HaXXXor’s Advocate, a tongue and cheek Hacker Q&A. Then we pay a special homage to the DES to AES switch over. Following that, two hot HaXXXor Girls explain buffer overflows. Then we go into a sexy look at using NMap. Our erotic audit continues with a nude tutorial on Ettercap. Then we get a strip tease education on John The Ripper. Closing the main feature we do NAKED DUMPSTER DIVING! Included on the disk are also some elite extra features.

…at least they didn’t do Crack. Or is that a shame?