Security Week in Review (2007-03-25)

Monday, April 2. 2007

Security Week in Review (2007-03-25)

I decided to boycott my computer yesterday as I can't take how inane April 1 has become. It's probably nothing new, but it's really started to annoy me these last few years, so today the Security Week in Review comes to you +1 day.

Last week saw the end to the Month of PHP Bugs. As a whole is was mostly unexciting. I'm not a fan of any month of "something" projects. I think they're just people pandering to the press, but it doesn't really seem to work. Every month of something project has pretty much just fizzled out at the end with nobody really noticing. I suspect if they really wanted to pimp themselves to the press, releasing thirty advisories at once to a mailing list would gain far more attention (please note I don't think this is a good idea either).

So I've come to a crossroads with this weekly column again. I'm wondering if listing last week's security updates is of use given there are other places once can find this information without much effort. I'm thinking it may be more worthwhile to just comment on the various updates and flaws that deserve comment. I find that the hardest thing about writing a blurb each week is how to keep it interesting. I'm not going to list any security updates in this week's column. If anyone likes seeing them here, please leave a comment, and I'll bring them back. Additionally, if there is something you like or dislike about what you see, I'd love to hear from you.

Posted by Josh Bressers in Security Week in Review at 07:00 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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I have really liked the format has it has been for the past month or so (since I started reading it). I think having the brief summary of the past week's Red Hat and Fedora updates is also useful.

#1 Nigel Metheringham on 2007-04-02 08:19 (Reply)

"Comment on the various updates and flaws that deserve comment" sounds like an excellent idea. If a bug is not interesting for you, it's probably not interesting to many people (that do not visit security-related websites anyway).

Ideally, I think, you might have a story to tell us about an update, but that's probably hard to come by without a lot of research.

One way or the other, keep it up!

#2 Olav Stetter on 2007-04-02 11:59 (Reply)

Fedora Weekly News is coming inside of the Fedora Project, to be produced weekly by a team of writers and editors. Coincidentally, the issue release schedule closely matches yours (ever Sunday, late.)

Are you interested in being the security beat lead for FWN? I don't think it's any different that what you are doing, except:

You share the column early (or deliver it early enough) to get incorporated into the FWN issue
You accept help (other content) related to security issues, which come in via the Wiki and other news@ sources. This is more of an editorial role, approving or removing content by relevancy, clarity, usefulness, etc.

It might be the start of a great thing.

You can get in touch with us via:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject

#3 Karsten Wade on 2007-04-02 20:50 (Reply)

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