Earlier this year I joined Twitter to interact with fellow security minded people. Zack Lanier (@quine) maintains a list of Security Twitter users (or Twits) over at security-twits.com.
If you want to keep pace with the security community, it's a great list
of potential users to follow. But I would be remiss if I didn't warn
you, we can be an eccentric bunch.
As a tribute to my fellow Twits, I put out a top ten list of signs you are indeed a Security Twit. This started as a stream of tweets, but I was encouraged to reprint it here. I've added explanations for readers not 'living on twitter'.
10. You start a Twitter war over the validity of self assessment questionnaires (actually happened, but I'll protect the names of the guilty)
9. You are surprised when people tell you Jack Daniel(s) is also an adult beverage (Jack Daniel is the much loved Curmudgeon of the security community)
8. You prep your liver for RSA months ahead of time
7. You have made sentences entirely of acronyms
6. You do or consider doing p90x (it's a workout program spreading rampantly like a virus, started by Chris Hoff)
5. You have strong opinions about PCI-DSS but haven't read it
4. You can name multiple security tools named after bodily functions
3. You have podcasted drunk (it's amazing how alcohol and security mix)
2. You shun the Gregorian calendar, instead you base time on days to Black Hat/Defcon
And the number one sign you are a Security Twit...
1. You have drunk a Hoffacino
Number 5 is definitely me (@justin_foster) :)
Definitely guilty of 7, 4, and 2.
Posted by: Wesley McGrew | June 26, 2009 at 09:43 PM
You've considered building an economic system based around the value of a beer.
...And you're aware that somebody did.
Posted by: mckt | June 26, 2009 at 10:14 PM
If at first you don't succeed, you fail closed.
Posted by: mrfisma | June 27, 2009 at 05:46 PM
I'm glad you wrote about this in your other blog.... Thanks for keeping parties un-named in #10....
Posted by: SecBarbie | September 2, 2009 at 07:46 PM