L0pht Website Relaunched

http://www.l0pht.com/

by tsally • 17 years ago

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pedalpete• 17 years ago

First off, I have no idea what your site is all about. Why would I go to this site, why did you create it.

From a design perspective, it is simple, but very dark and hard to read. Reversed text (darker background, lighter print) can work for headlines, but for larger bodies of text it is more difficult to read.

Unfortunately, the way I see it you haven't communicated what it is and why i'd use it, and you also haven't designed it well enough from a strictly visual standpoint to make it usable.

sanswork3• 17 years ago

I don't believe he launched it he appears to be just passing on the news. The L0pht was a very famous hacker think tank back in the 90s. They've presented for congress and it's members have done a lot of influential things in the security and software world. The people that will use this site and that follow them will appreciate the simple what I call developer design of the site.

For reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L0pht

jasonkester• 17 years ago

This would have been a good thing to put on the site itself. It explains what we're looking at.

As the grandparent explains, this article has no context in the title ("[unspellable] website launched"), and no context in the target site. It's just a black hole (or rather a grey hole, given the site's look and feel). I made it back here without any idea what it was or why I had been sent there.

The grandparent's assessment was completely correct and delivered constructively. It should not have been voted down.

whughes• 17 years ago

I don't understand why this post has been so heavily downvoted. It presents an honest opinion with no malicious intent. Are we going to attack people fo simply not being aware of every hacker group?

thwarted• 17 years ago

I agree that attacks are unwarranted but 1) downvotes are not necessarily attacks so it's folly to interpret them that way, and 2) the universe didn't just blink into existence at the moment of one's own earliest memory of it, and to treat things as such with arrogance and critique is just revealing the speaker's ignorance.

schwanksta2• 17 years ago

They're apparently launching a site called Hacker News: http://hackernews.com/

sanswork3• 17 years ago

It's actually another relaunch I think it was originally launched in the late 90s as hacker news network. Then after the @stake merger some stuff happened and it was shut down. It use to be like a slashdot specificall for computer security if I remember correctly(It's been a while).

*Add link with some history from the creator. http://www.spacerogue.net/wordpress/?p=94

schwanksta2• 17 years ago

You're right. Here's a sample: http://www.spacerogue.net/hnn/061600.html

rrival• 17 years ago

What's next, Mirsky's Worst of the Web? Maybe I should bring netstat.net back. Hmm.

ahoyhere2• 17 years ago

Wow, memories.

Will Cult of the Dead Cow come back too?

(Wait! They are back already! I just hadn't looked in something like a decade. Jesus christ, they have a blog now...)

dantheman• 17 years ago

They're not back,they never left :)

lpgauth• 17 years ago

Anyone actually still uses l0phtcrack? I remember using it back in the days, but now with rainbow tables a "stupid" bruteforce is simply not cutting it.

ubernostrum• 17 years ago

I've used it occasionally. I had to work with one Windows box (for IE testing), to which I always forgot the password.

stse• 17 years ago

l0phtcrack also seems to have been revived. http://www.l0phtcrack.com/

L0pht Website Relaunched

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