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>"Sean's crypto stuff has about 2.5x as much material as the 36Chambers crypto-for-pentesters site had..."

This site never existed, at least according to Matasano's offical website or Twitter account.

>"If the pricing model we use for the challenges ("mail Sean and ask for them and he'll give them to you for free") is too much for you, I don't know what to tell you"

You are deviating from the fact that you promised to give sth away at a national conference, then completely ignored it until s.b obviously pointed it out. What happened between BH-11 to last November - when you started telling everyone to send email to Sean?

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Maybe if you keep reframing your questions you'll manage to weave your way past my original evasive answer of "we decided not to do it that way" to the truth of "we grind up the bones of the victims of our free crypto challenges into a fine meal we use to fertilize the fungus patches we rely on for sustenance down in the pentest mines".

"Free" challenges, indeed. Ah hah hah hah hah haaaaaa! Mwrhwprh -gulp-. Mmmm. Fungus.

What a great response from Matasano founder! No wonder they have 2 Ex-es (daeken,nbpoole) in this thread.

Please don't presume to speak for me. I left Matasano because I was returning to school; I greatly enjoyed my time there and I keep in touch with everyone I worked with because they are a group of intelligent, kind, and all around awesome people.

Also, I wholeheartedly endorse Tom's responses to your insinuations.

Totally agreed on all counts.

Cody, you're dealing with a coward that created an anon throw-away account just to troll with offensive remarks. I'm actually surprised how restrained Thomas has been with this jerk.

It's not the anon that I care about, it's that someone is being an asshole in public to people I consider to be friends, and using my (and nbpoole's) name to do it. I'm not fond of that.

It bothers me too.

You guys are all great; honestly, though, I think we're the only ones reading this part of the thread, and I was owed some kind of karmic retribution for turning Cody's post into a Matasano hiring thread.

I'm surprised none of you think I'm devious enough to have planted that anonymous commenter, though. "What, you're saying you test ALL the form inputs? What are you, some kind of atomic superman?"

DON'T BELIEVE EITHER OF THEM! THEY ATE THE FUNGUS!

The Fungus is made from people!

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