Will Chatham is the Security Assessment Engineer for Arbor Networks. Since Netscape 2.0, he has worked in a wide array of environments including non-profit, corporate, small business, and government. He started as a web developer, moved into Linux system administration, and ultimately found his place as a security professional. Having most recently conquered the OSCP certification, Will continues to hack his way into various things in an effort to make them more secure.
For two years, I have battled with this issue of Bellsouth.net (and AT&T in general) blocking email from any domain hosted on my web server. I set up all kinds of security precautions, set up SPF records, and ran all sorts of tests in order to subdue the fears that…
I saw an interesting article on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s site and decided to contact them. They go into the January purge of Warner content from YouTube and its destruction of fair use. Read the article here: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/01/youtubes-january-fair-use-massacre
I just did an interview with 13WLOS which will air on the 6:00 news tonight. They even had me play the Star Wars theme on my banjo for it, so be sure to check it out.
And now The Mountain Xpress has covered the story: http://www.mountainx.com/news/2009/asheville_musician_caught_in_battle_over_youtube_tunes Late Update: The Citizen-Times has gotten in on the action: http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090127/NEWS01/90127072/1001/news Thanks guys!
The LA Times interviewed me last week regarding the YouTube takedown of my Star Wars on a Banjo video (see YouTube Is Out To Get Me). The article is on the web for your perusal here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/01/youtube-warner.html Following a link at the bottom of that article, I discovered the site…
YouTube has implemented a three-phased attack to thoroughly rid me of any reason to ever talk nice about it again. They have succeeded. Phase I – Google Search Drops My Site It started in late December. I run a site called TheBestOfYouTube.com which is just a blog I use to…
