Happy 5th Birthday TaoSecurity Blog

Today, 8 January 2008, is the fifth birthday of TaoSecurity Blog. I wrote my first post on 8 January 2003 while working as an incident response consultant for Foundstone. 2087 posts (averaging 417 per year !?!) later, I am still blogging.

My pace has slowed during the last few months, mainly because I have been spending more time reading in my off hours. I have also found less really gripping security events to report. I try not to jump on the bandwagon, so if you see a lot of coverage for a certain event I will probably not report it. I might chime in if there's an uncovered angle or I particularly want to record my thoughts on the issue.

I plan to continue blogging, especially with respect to network security monitoring, incident detection and response, network forensics, and FreeBSD when appropriate. I especially enjoy reading your comments and engaging in informed dialogues. Thanks for joining me these five years -- I hope to have a ten year post in 2013!

Don't forget -- today is Elvis Presley's birthday. Coincidence? You decide.

The image shows Elvis training with Ed Parker, founder of American Kenpo. As I like to tell my students, Elvis' stance is so wide it would take him a week to react to an attack. Then again, he's Elvis.

I studied Kenpo in San Antonio, TX and would like to return to practicing if my shoulder cooperates!

Comments

scottder said…
Congrats!!
12:19 AM
Anonymous said…
congrats! i push this blog on any interested folks i bump into, its great info and very well written. please keep up the great work.
9:14 AM
Anonymous said…
Richard,

Congratulations, as always I enjoy reading your posts; very informative.

Jason
9:16 AM
Anonymous said…
Gratz Richard! Love your blog and your books.
9:34 AM
Anonymous said…
Congratulations!!!!! Very nice blog and posts ... hope lot of more years with security information for us, your readers =) .

Regards,

Rodrigo Montoro (Sp0oKeR)
9:41 AM
Andrew Hay said…
Congrats Richard. Keep the posts coming :)
12:09 PM
Anonymous said…
Nice web, i love security and kungfu :)
The secondlife hacks are interesting too, i have coded some proof of concept scripts to exploit it weakness.


if you like kungfu
if you like security

regards
11:14 AM
Anonymous said…
Sorry bad links,
the good ones:
kungfu

computer sedcurity
11:16 AM
Unknown said…
Congtrats on the birthday! Definately one of my favorite blogs!
12:24 PM
Anonymous said…
Congratulations!!...I am enjoy reading your posts.
10:22 PM
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