@ScottPack Re: security.stackexchange.com/questions/6403/… I was just going to comment that I understood the highly public nature of IT Security and I was trying to prompt the OP to 'think before you post'. If you really want to scare a US DoD affiliate the phrase 'foreign person' is much more effective than 'licensed CC BY-SA'.

More subtile: add "(an organisation in the USA)" after DoD.

Seriously: Even many top users from the USA are obviously not aware of the international nature of this site. Just look at the location field on the top users list.

especially those that end with a two letter acronym.

@thisjosh My point is that not only is this an international venue that is completely public, but he wouldn't have any legal rights to restrict use of the information either.

Granted, he probably isn't legally permitted to agree to the CC license anyway.

Please don't take those statements to mean that I, in any way, disagree with the "Once it's on the Internet, it is forever."

@HendrikBrummermann When SEI decided to "fix" everyone's location any reference to country would have been lost for folks in the US. So that might not be the best datapoint. I'm sure that there are gobs of other good datapoints, though.

@HendrikBrummermann If it weren't for having spent a good bit of time in chat, and following some of the guys here on Twitter, I probably would be mostly oblivious to the international nature of this site myself. Even then, I have to occasionally remind myself that there are people here from outside of the U.S. and Europe. (i.e.: @AviD, from Israel)

@Iszi wait, I'm not on the East Coast?? damn, no wonder TV shows are all at the wrong time....

okay, this is weird. Can any of you reach the OWASP site? owasp.org

not even getting a DNS hit by pinging it....

@AviD I can't (from the UK)

downforeveryoneorjustme.com says it's up, but I see it down.

@Ninefingers thanks

@Iszi cool site, thanks

very weird....

@AviD here at least DNS requests against owasp.org (dig -t any owasp.org) aren't coming back with any domain records at all, no SOA, no NS, no A, nothing.

@Ninefingers yeah, thats what I got, too. strange - what, you think they let their domain name registration just expire??

@AviD sorry, was outside... I don't know, whois owasp.org still responds with "The OWASP Foundation"; I can only think that they've changed DNS settings at their hosting provider - but even then I'd expect to get the old response.

Until the new one makes its way through the system.

I'd be intrigued to know what's made them disappear

@Ninefingers @Iszi well, they're back up now... guess the website went out for coffee, just as I needed some timely info from them. Thanks, guys.

@AviD well, even servers need a break I suppose...

@Ninefingers Lazy servers, maybe.

@ScottPack servers these days...

Tell me about it. Why, in my day....

...servers worked all day and all night without complaint! The servers of today just don't know they've been booted, that's what I say!