Layer 8

Security is fundamentally about people, and everything we know about people is relevant to security. -- B. Schneier

Six degrees of security.

Or, around the world in security blogrolls in six jumps.

Here are the rules:

You start out by jumping to someone on your site’s public blogroll.

Jump to someone on their public blogroll.

And so on.  Go as long as you can but still end up with someone whose public blogroll links back to you.

Caveats:  each blog must be primarily about security.  None of the intermediate jumps can have you on their blogroll.  (So you can’t just jump around to all the people you know link to you too.)

I started out by going to Quarterman’s Perilocity,
then to Gunnar Peterson’s 1 Raindrop,
then to those funky guys over at Emergent Chaos,
then to Not Bad For a Cubicle,
then to the always-incisive Another Set of Teeth,
and finally back home to Layer 8.

I went down quite a few wrong paths.  A lot of the top bloggers don’t publicly link to anyone else.  Once I got lost in Scandinavian blogger-land and couldn’t tell whether the blogs were about security any more (my Danish is just as bad as my Norwegian), so I had to back up a few jumps and try again.  Once I had to stop at a gas station.  But it was a fun trip.

Let me know what your tour looks like!

Posted by shrdlu on Sunday, August 12, 2007
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Rob Newby Spain on 08/13  at  03:04 AM:

Someone has too much time on their hands…

LonerVamp United States on 08/13  at  08:20 AM:

Hehe, what Rob said is the same reason this post made me grin! smile

Actually, this is the sort of thing I do now and then when I’m looking for new blogs to read or site designs. Just start following the tangled trail of blog links in the menus.

I tried this really quick at work, but didn’t have much luck. Far too often I run into generic blogger land where a link heads to someone’s personal site and they only link to their own friends, none of which knows a whit about security or IT beyond updating their blogger posts. Then again, I try to pick links I don’t recognize…

Kai Roer Norway on 08/22  at  10:50 AM:

Rob, remember this is the same guy who spends all his days messing with his staff, his bosses and your blog…no wonder he spends time lost in the blogrolls!
BTW - should you not be working yourself???  ;P

Rob Newby Spain on 08/22  at  11:20 AM:

And you’re doing what exactly right now Mr. R?

Heh heh, this could go on for months.

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