One of my favorite bookmarks is attrition.org. Offering computer security candor often wrapped around a raised middle finger, Attrition is best known for hosting the Web's largest collection of defacement mirrors. But no longer. The site recently announced it . . .

One of my favorite bookmarks is attrition.org. Offering computer security candor often wrapped around a raised middle finger, Attrition is best known for hosting the Web's largest collection of defacement mirrors. But no longer. The site recently announced it will no longer maintain the mirror that made it infamous.

This announcement has led to widespread rumours and speculations on the motivations behind this move and possible side-effects - most of them wrong. The most common misconception is that Attrition is "logging off" or "throwing in the towel" because the staff can't keep up with web site defacements.

Attrition staffer Brian Martin, better known as "Jericho" graciously took some time out of his swamped schedule to answer some questions on the subject.

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