MalwareDiariesList: the comments

I’ve had a lot of feedback from my previous post about the MalwareDiariesList project.

Well, I’m glad so many people are passionate about it but some comments kind of got me going a little

Such as this one:

Bullsh**.. why ? simply any collected url is in my opinion public domain.

we @ netpilot dedicate bandwidth, storage and man power to consolidate these data, so we expect from your company to assist us by feeding your url’s to our database.

gerhard

Oh boy! You know gerhard, if you had asked nicely, I would probably have given you access. But now, don’t you expect anything.

My plan is to give access to all reputable people who are in the security field. The reason I do not want it public is the same as using password protection when exchanging malware. A lot of people don’t know what they’re doing and would just infect themselves. Other people would leverage that information to infect others (I don’t want it to fall into the wrong hands).

Collecting this data is work and in some ways our competitive advantage over other companies (we are not a charitable organisation). I thought sharing it for free was already good enough, but no,  some folks are not happy.

I like nice people. I don’t like people who swear. I don’t have time for haters.

Have a nice day

Jerome Segura