Thursday, August 19, 2010

Rob, We Need You Back

I've been a follower of Rob Rosenberger for many years. It's been at least ten because I remember reading his work while still living in a townhouse, and that was in 1999. Rob hasn't posted on either his Vmyths site nor on the SecurityCritics.org site since last year. So far as I'm concerned, Rob was (and remains) the master of biting commentary with respect to computer security and the computer security industry. Finding him looking over your shoulder is similar to finding a "60 Minutes" news crew outside your front door. It's just not something you want to see happen. For example, when he went after Richard Clarke, you could hear the bitch-slap reverberating all across the country.
For those of us on the other side, the receiving side, of his wit and wisdom, it's just the opposite. You hope, nay pray, for him to find someone or something to ridicule. Seriously, to me, reading Rosenbergers's insightful analyses was like finding the Rosetta Stone of the anti-virus industry. I could feel my IQ rising with each paragraph I took in.
Which brings me to my point. Rob, we need you back. I mean it. We need you. The seeming rise of botnets and uberhackers and what not just screams for someone with the knowledge and, even more importantly, the ability to translate that knowledge for the masses, and that means you. We need someone with the expertise to be able to look past the fluff and spin and exaggerations to be able to say what is BS, and what is BS.
Come back, Rob, when you can. As the ad goes, "We'll leave the light on for ya."

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