At 3:46 AM -0500 5/15/04, Bruce Schneier wrote: > The Doghouse: IQ Networks > > > >In general, the Doghouse is a showcase for stupid security companies or >products. Snake-oil cryptography, nonsense computer security, that >sort of thing. But this month we have something different: a company >committing out-and-out fraud. > >IQ Networks claims to have an impressive advisory board: Ross Anderson, >Mihir Bellare, Steve Bellovin, Shafi Goldwasser, Peter Gutmann, Doug >Stinson, Ron Rivest, and Markus Kuhn. Unfortunately, none of these >people had ever heard of the company. Nor did they agree to have >content of theirs on the site. They also claim to be involved with the >Honeynet Project -- none of the Honeynet guys had ever heard of them -- >and Password Safe: I've never heard of them, either. > >They have an impressive customer list. I'll bet anything that all of >them are fabrications, too. Oh; they're under investigation by SANS >for pirating SANS training material. > >The rest of the site is also amusing, with a lot of generic security >gobbledygook and not a whole lot of information. The company claims to >do pretty much anything. > >Would you buy your security services from a company that lies about, >um, everything? > > >Website: ><http://www.iq-net-works.com/> > >Customer list (hard to find, and will probably be deleted soon): ><http://www.iq-net-works.com/clientes_english.html> > >Peter Gutmann sent this link to me a few weeks ago, and has challenged >the company about their use of his name. In response, the company has >pulled their list of technical advisors from its website. It forgot, >however, to pull the list from the Spanish website. ><http://www.iq-net-works.com/spanish/equipo.html> >Look quickly, I expect it will be gone soon. > >You can also look them up on archive.org, which has saved the company's >list of advisors (also in Spanish) from 2003. (This website is great >for finding old versions of webpages, or webpages that are no longer >around.) ><http://web.archive.org/web/20030705082011/www.iq-net-works.com/equipo.h >tml> or <http://tinyurl.com/2dbwj>
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