GoDaddy sold

Sun Jul 3 20:29:06 MST 2011

For reference:
http://vigilantantis.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/paul-richard-butts-guilty-24000-child-porn-images/

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0215abrk-childpornconvict0215.html
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/12/10/20081210childporn1210-on.html

Urban legends like your resume I am sure....

I love everything I put on here gets attacked by princess know it all

/rant

-james

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:

> Hi Bryan,
>
> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Bryan O'Neal <
> Bryan.ONeal at theonealandassociates.com> wrote:
>
>> My guess is he is no longer the head of security and they can afford
>> more A talent then they could several years ago.
>>
>
> Correct!  Their entire security team came to one of my Hackfests.  They
> were not in any way "slow" or stupid; in fact, they were all excellent
> (quickly answering advanced questions for tee shirts and becoming bored with
> limited content presentations [SSLStrip]) far and above the caliber of most
> the PLUG (including many quick to critique and the academics selling "formal
> education and community college classes" or contractors and entrepreneurs))
> as most security passionate linux professionals are.
>
> I also use GoDaddy.com for some things and support a great number of
> professional companies who have or currently use them.
>
> As for security, the GoDaddy Drupal and other point click CMS applications
> are patched and provide for security updates (which outdoes the PLUG,
> wouldn't you say)?  Their ftp and mail is relatively secure (compared with
> other hosting shops).   But as for actual success as evidenced by Google and
> MAC, management is EVERYTHING.   I know people who worked at GoDaddy, and
> while they can't deem to venture an opinion here, they agree management is
> somewhat lacking at GoDaddy.com; let's hope this changes?
>
> But hey, sure!  Let's all dog gossip about each other?  This James
> originated story about the Security Manager sounds like an urban GoDaddy
> myth?  A discussion about a personal issue of this level (which rightly
> belongs in human resources, not a gosspy discussion in the PLUG) is
> obscene.  I heard a great one about myself recently?  All PLUG gossip is
> fairly useless and borne of one of the 7 Deadlies....
>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 7:18 PM, James Finstrom
>> <jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com> wrote:
>> > um smoke crack much....
>> > In the end Godaddy is the wal-mart of registrars. You don't go there
>> because
>> > they are the best at what they do, you go because they are the cheapest
>> at
>> > what they do. I am not aware of any other registrar that will sell you a
>> $1
>> > domain name. If someone else does let me know and I will be happy to use
>> em.
>> > I don't use any of their up-sells but I usually buy my domains there
>> because
>> > they are dirt cheap.
>> > As far as the old "antidote"  When their head security cant secure his
>> own
>> > crap legal or not then I would suspect he can't secure others. If he is
>> in
>> > the driver seat of the team I would assume he is what they consider
>> their
>> > "smartest choice"
>> > As we have seen lately script kiddies are taking down big
>> > multinational corporations so all around I would say the state of
>> security
>> > over all is crap.
>> > --James
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Steven,
>> >>
>> >> Everyone "projects" onto others what they feel themselves at first
>> onion
>> >> layer.  Some of us can identify our feelings (jealousy, or another of
>> the 7
>> >> deadlies) and extract gossip from fact to understanding of process and
>> >> duties in technical professions and shops.
>> >>
>> >> At GoDaddy.com ticket hockey is a large part of most of the jobs,
>> >> requiring a specific type of conformist.
>> >>
>> >> Their top linux people and developers are deeply involved; they allow
>> >> little creative thought or engineering direction from the mass of
>> employees.
>> >>
>> >> It's their culture.  Unfortunately GoDaddy.com has dropped in the
>> hosting
>> >> rankings over the last few years, perhaps due to inability to innovate,
>> poor
>> >> support for common users, and management shakeups.
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Steven Stremciuc <steven at stremciuc.net
>> >
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> James, that's a strange conclusion to draw from one (years old)
>> anecdote.
>> >>>
>> >>> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:28 AM, James Finstrom
>> >>> <jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Years ago one of their head security guys got busted for kiddy porn.
>> >>>> This told me their security folks aren't that bright
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Jul 3, 2011 6:18 AM, "Lisa Kachold" <lisakachold at obnosis.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>>> > Ed,
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Ed <plug at 0x1b.com> wrote:
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> >> GoDaddy sold for $2.25B to KKR etc
>> >>>> >>
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > Hopefully, this might give them some new management. It's like a
>> >>>> > Chinese
>> >>>> > firedrill every six months over there?
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > The ONLY department that is well managed is their Security Services
>> >>>> > team.
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > http://mashable.com/2011/07/02/godaddy-sold/
>> >>>> >
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