Talk:Christopher Boyd
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I think I'll reduce this to a stub, this guy is barely notable.
I'm not sure I understand why this article has been cited as being about a "non notable" individual, when the article in its last version prior to edit clearly contained numerous third party examples of the work done by this researcher, and how they would count as "notable" in the field of security or how the above (clearly trollish comment) is accepted at face value. Especially when the user
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Buyable
has a (brief) history of page vandalism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Buyable
I move for the article to be restored, this is page vandalism disguised as "editing". though a trim couldn't hurt.Ginza 10:39, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Long time Wiki user, first time contributor. I was fortunate enough to attenda presentation boyd gave at the RSA exhibition in california this year, and upon searching for more information on him was surprised to find this page has had all content removed and (confusingly) replaced with a stub notice asking users to help by "expanding it" to prove the subjects notability. on the basis that the article (looking at older versions) already had plenty of secondary evidence to support the subjects "notability", it makes no sense whatsoever to....put all the same material back in again. lets put it this way, you dont get to give a talk at RSA (the worlds biggest security confrrence)in the first place without being an expert in your field, and of the 400 or so sessions given, his was the only one to recieve any sort of press coverage (EWeek, http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2092435,00.asp). that should tell you something.
in terms of notability of the work done? well, he's listed here on a list of 59 top influencers in IT at number 21:
http://www.itsecurity.com/features/top-59-influencers-itsecurity-031407/
he is also publically thanked by google on their website, with regards the work done in relation to vulnerabilities in their software:
http://www.google.com/corporate/security.html
he's a two time Microsoft MVP in security, and regularly appears in the press talking about issues of spyware and adware (most recently, the BBC website and the Times and Guardian printed newspapers):
http://vitalsecurity.org/times.pdf
his research has been referenced in at least one book:
his work was cited in one of the documents relating to the case involving new york attorney general VS adware vendors Direct Revenue:
http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/nyag-dr/e75.pdf
and his findings are considered notable enough to be mentioned across any number of mainstream Tech / IT sites you care to mention. I'd list them here, but whats the point as they're already available in the previous version of this page that was summararily dismissed by someone who seems to have a long history of offensive / innapropriate comments and / or page vandalism with regards pages on wikipedia.
in my opinion, the burden of proof is here on the person who removed the content from this page to establish the subjects non-notability, as opposed people like myself who have been denied this information on the basis of a whimsical decision that "this person is not notable" and then this individual seemingly flagging it for numerous problems. it almost seems like a "grudge" edit, especially as boyd has himself flagged the actions of adware vendors editing wikipedia for their own benefit:
http://www.vitalsecurity.org/2007/02/history-of-revision.html http://www.vitalsecurity.org/2007/02/history-of-revision-part-2.html
its not too hard to suppose its someone "getting their own back". For this reason, I'm reverting the edit because it smacks of drive-by page vandalism. Horrorlemon 12:43, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
