Thomas Ptacek. Deletionista.

The Primary Objective, or, "why I'm here"

Remove Vanispamcruftisement from Wikipedia's under-policed computer security coverage.

Put more succinctly: pretend you're an article, and:

This is painful for people to hear, but it's not painful for me to say. Please don't take it personally. Please consider: Wikipedia will likely be even more important 20 years from now. How likely is it that your article will make sense 20 years from now?

The Secondary Objective

Improve Wikipedia's coverage of computer security topics by actually writing articles.

The First Rule Of Wikipedia Editing

If an adjective is effective, it's probably POV, subjective, or nonverifiable. Write stereo instructions.

A Newly Discovered Second Rule Of Wikipedia Editing

If you're going to create a sock puppet account to add a vanity page about yourself to the Wikipedia, don't name it after your company.

Articles I Have Given A Shit About

ISCSI - Ioctl - CryptGenRandom - Mary Ann Davidson - Comparison of DNS server software - IPv4 address exhaustion

Stefan Savage - Daniel Bleichenbacher - qmail - Network Access Control - Hierarchical_internetworking_model

Zardoz (computer security) - Firewalls and Internet Security

I'll get there, I'll get there! W/I/P: /Vulnerability Research. Next, /Debugger.

Articles I Has Baleeted (or tried to)

John Flowers - StankDawg - Blacklisted! 411 - Fawn (musician) - William Quinn (phreaker)‎ - Mark Anderson (Security)

Butchered From Inside - The Syndicate Of London - Gary Miliefsky - Vinod Mohan - BR Magazine - William J. Coldwell

Carlos Jimenez (businessman) - Simon Johnson (security expert) - Whitedust - Tomas Beaujean - Packet monkey(redir)

David A. Wheeler - Summer of worms - Hackcon - Hacker Voice Radio - Max Bianchi Godoy - Mark Hinge

Digital DawgPound - Jonathan Shapiro - Common Body of Knowledge - Miliefsky!!!!!!!!!!! - Radio FreeK America

Managed Security Metrics Provider - Melih Abdulhayoglu(redir) - SecurDisc - Holistic Information Security Practitioner

If it's red, America won.

Stop hating America.

A Few World Experts In Cryptography

A Few Notable World Experts In Security

Notable Venues For Security/Crypto Research

Smaller Recurring Venues

None of these are "notable" speaking events; you can speak at one just by asking.

All Of The Notable Security News Publications

I'm missing a bunch of these. Will get there, and then get to work.

Flair

This user runs Mac OS X.
This user has been on Wikipedia for
17 years, 10 months, and 21 days.
Quality, not quantity. This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of their contributions to Wikipedia.

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