[psysec] introducing self

[Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah]

Hello, my name is Rob, and ... [sigh] ... I'm a social engineer.

[Waits for friendly "Hi, Rob!" from mailing list.  Not a sausage.  Thinks of rude 
word for mailing list ...]

I didn't start out to be an infosecurity maven: I started out as a teacher.  I also 
studied a fair amount of psych in university, so when I got into computers I was 
always interested in the human side.  (It's almost 25 years ago, now, that I got my 
first submission to the RISKS Digest accepted, on how email made it almost 
mandatory for people to get into fights.)  Gadi let me onto the lists starting out 
with TH-research, and, with all the work he has to do, he hasn't yet noticed that I 
have nothing useful to contribute.

I've been on the Internet since before it was called the Internet.  It's entirely 
possible that I am not a real person, just an AI experiment gone horribly wrong.  
Possibly viral.

I've written some technical books, but spend more time tearing other people's 
book apart.

I've got some materials posted online, accessible through 
http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm .  The book reviews start at 
http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/mnbk.htm .  I'm maintaining a list of other resources 
at http://www.infosecbc.org/links .  In social networking/Web 2.0 terms, bits of me 
can be found at http://www.flickr.com/people/rslade/ , 
http://www.linkedin.com/in/rslade , 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Slade , 
http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ , 
http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html , 
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=730092852 , and 
http://twitter.com/rslade


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rslade at vcn.bc.ca     slade at victoria.tc.ca     rslade at computercrime.org
If you take life too seriously you won't get to laugh along with
                 everybody else when you fail.
http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm 
http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://twitter.com/rslade
http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/