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[illwill]

for me it was because i seen my DCOM paper here while cruising through links on google ive been here ever since

[Travis]

Good Question...

I was referred to this forum by GSecur, either in his signature or by one of his posts in another forum.

[meep]

I was referred to this site from a guy, 'Deus_DK'. Too bad he is not around anymore.

[tibbar]

it kept turning up in google searches so i thought id check it out...

[boshcash]

i found gso through illwill , illmob.org lead me here , too bad ur gonna go soon for a while :\

[White Scorpion]

Haven't got a clue to be honest... I think it's the same as Tibbar, googling.
Took me a while to actually get in though, otherwise i would have been a member a year earlier or so.

[bonarez]

yep, googling for some security related stuff got me here too, registered (without a wait) and happily remain here..

[skiddieleet]

Someone linked to it in an IRC channel I was in. I thought it looked like a great place then and had to wait a long time to get a membership. Now I see that it's not as great as I thought. It's not bad though. Still some good questions and discussions every once in a while.

[Blake]

Someone linked to it in an IRC channel I was in. I thought it looked like a great place then and had to wait a long time to get a membership. Now I see that it's not as great as I thought. It's not bad though. Still some good questions and discussions every once in a while.

you sure know how to give a back handed compliment

[thchog]

I was very new, and was just trying to learn. Searching for info and tutorials on RAT's and how to pack/bind them undetectable. I came accross a thread about the subject and quite honestly was probably the most informative info I had found in days as far as binding and how they work and what not. The way the discussion went and personally written programs were posted tested and rated, (I had read earlier of the importance of using unknown binders) and checked for virus's by people who knew how too, was amazing to me. I tried to join and could not. When I read they may look at new members in the next year (or some lengthy time period) and what was expected of a member and needing to submit essay's I saved the thread as a fav and figured I would never have a chance. Cut to about 6-8 months later stumbled accross the site again, submitted my first ever written essay and vuala.

QUOTE(skiddieleet @ Feb 11 2006, 06:36 PM)

Someone linked to it in an IRC channel I was in. I thought it looked like a great place then and had to wait a long time to get a membership. Now I see that it's not as great as I thought. It's not bad though. Still some good questions and discussions every once in a while.

I would disagree, the longer I am here the more I am impressed. I have a short attention span and if anything would consider myself a manic searcher and knowledge seeker. There are very few if any places I have been that has more "useful" info on as many vastly different subjects. Other sites often have difficulty weeding out the BS/useless/infected/traps posts, GSO rarely does. There has yet to be a subject I searched for that I could not find here, or at least find the directions to from here.

[Stephen]

I was the Information Systems Security Officer for Naval Station Roosevelt Roads Puerto Rico. I do not remember exactly what I had done to stumble across the site, but there was not a delay to sign-up so here I am.

Someone linked to it in an IRC channel I was in. I thought it looked like a great place then and had to wait a long time to get a membership. Now I see that it's not as great as I thought. It's not bad though. Still some good questions and discussions every once in a while.

His nickname says it all.

[JaG]

god gave the url to this site via google

[KutmasteR]

Well i found it when illmob swithced to there irc channel, but membership was never open..

[funtu$h]

by posting of gso member on other forums like AYF and ..nkdcrw

[x@ros2000]

I found GSO,because in about 2 out of 3 security-related requests in Google,
some good GSO thread comes up in the results.
So,I really don't believe there's a..."lack of good discussions".

I also didn't register for a very long time...
i did that when I felt I had the obligation to give something back,
and that I also had enough knowledge,
to be able to "excuse" at least to myself my presence in here.
And,allow me this expression,GSO's attitude is..."elite",
but in what other way someone can REALLY learn?

Little Poem for GSO ;-)
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"search,search again,
search and learn,
share and post results...
then we all discuss".

Does anyone really believe there are a lot of forums out there,
where people will tell you what's going on behind the..."scene"?
That aren't actually "exploiting" people's "lack of knowledge",
by "advertizing" some piece of "security soft/hard-ware",
but instead,will try to explain you..."how it's actually done"?
I challenge anyone to point me in at least 1 forum,
that has given so much info to people interested in security.
Answers to most of the security info that people search to get in here,
are 100% "alive and kicking...asses",
either they can be considered "complete" or not...
and I think the Google's engine pretty much approves that.