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Why does this redirect to This Week in Tech? Is it not a totally unique podcast? 137.186.22.19 23:30, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
The special edition episode is not numbered on the GRC's official Security Now website. The last episode as of 3/8/2006 would be numbered 29, not 30.
I will renumber this in the main article.--BorisFromStockdale 21:16, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
I rewrote this article and I hope I've combined the best bits of both. I converted the episode list into a table from the number list. -- vortex talk 13:35, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
I agree with Boris, they are on Gibson's page, and they have little place here. -- Falcorian (talk) 19:38, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
The episode list is now getting quite large so I've made it "hideable". It seems like the list is expanded by default though I do believe it would be possible to have it collapsed by default, allowing the user to show the episode list if they want to. Perhaps this would be better than having the table showing by default? I'm not sure how to do this though. -- Tim1988 talk 12:12, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
The link to the Podnova ratings has changed to http://www.podnova.com/top40/. How are link changes in references sections handled in general? -- Raffen 18:04, 28 May 2007 (UTC) 20:00, May 28 2007 (CET)
The list needs to be updated more often I added 97 but someone still needs to make sure the list stays up to date. -- Bob12321 01:27, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
Is it a good idea to have a coloured background for the new mailbag episodes? -- RpgCyco 12:21, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed in the past, that while we are linking to Gibson's security now page, the dates have been taken from Leo's twit.tv website. Shouldn't the dates be taken from grc.com so it's all consistent? That's my opinion anyway. :) -- RpgCyco ( talk) 07:19, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
I just added Eps 207 - 209, and stopped short of using the blue highlight for Ep 209, as the blue seemed to be used for Out-of-band updates (extra episodes not released on the official release day of the podcast.) However, it DOES seem like there should be some special notice of this episode due to it's being mostly devoted to Steve's discussion of Vitamin D, and very little about Security. If no one objects by next week, I'm going to choose an appropriately DIFFERENT color and highlight it. NipokNek ( talk) 13:13, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
Have now done my edits and choose a shade of yellow (#FFFF99) for this occasion. NipokNek ( talk) 10:37, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
I am temporarily removing the reference to the podcasts copyright status. Leo Laporte's page references the Creative Commons by-nc-sa 2.5 license, however Steve Gibson's page says "The contents of this page are Copyright (c) 2008 Gibson Research Corporation". I'd be willing to bet that the license on Steve's page is just a boilerplate, and I'm going to send him a message about that, but until there's a clear answer it should probably come out of the article. NipokNek ( talk) 06:59, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
And they very helpfully went and specifically mentioned the CC license in episode 212, so I put it back. http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-212.pdf NipokNek ( talk) 05:13, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
The episode list is generally not up to date (almost five months missing as of now) and has already grown very long. I suggest removing it from this article and just link to the episode list on grc.com/sn. What do you think?
Ehamberg ( talk) 13:47, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was not moved. There appears to be clear consensus that WP:MOSTM applies here. -- rgpk ( comment) 18:20, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
Security Now → Security Now! — Official name see http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm and text in transcripts for every show. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 14:39, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
I just spent 15 minutes looking for sources for this article, and I feel frustrated. I found several reliable, secondary sources which mention the show, but none which treat it with more than a trivial mention. The article has been tagged for "primary sources" cleanup for over two years. Has anyone else tried to locate any?
I agree with above posters that the episode list provides excessive detail and should be split, but can't justify that without establishing the list would meet the general notability guideline. For a list of episodes, that would mean reliable sources that have discussed the episodes as a group or set – in other words, sources which discuss more than one episode. If such sources can't be found, the list should be linked from this article instead. -- Pnm ( talk) 02:46, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
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“ Then Gibson reads a testimonial for his software SpinRite.” - I was wondering if this could be worded something like: “Steve often updates listeners on his latest projects at GRC such as Spinrite.” I mention this because I listen every week (usually three times) and although Steve gives us spinrite updates, some weeks it barely gets a mention unless something interesting happened. I bring this up because it sounds like a host hawking products through the podcast. Steve isn’t really selling it hard or anything. I remember when he would read testimonials but they have changed to updates on the work and I wonder if this was a conscious thing. Thats my 2 cents feel free to disregard:) Eightyanthony ( talk) 10:09, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
Hard to find good refs on the podcast, but the links under "Popularity" seem to indicate some notability. With over 800 around 2 hour episodes there's a fair bit of material there. This [3] puts it at #6 on Apple Podcasts — US tech news, so that seems pretty high. Also #330 of global all podcasts [4] peterl ( talk)
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Why does this redirect to This Week in Tech? Is it not a totally unique podcast? 137.186.22.19 23:30, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
The special edition episode is not numbered on the GRC's official Security Now website. The last episode as of 3/8/2006 would be numbered 29, not 30.
I will renumber this in the main article.--BorisFromStockdale 21:16, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
I rewrote this article and I hope I've combined the best bits of both. I converted the episode list into a table from the number list. -- vortex talk 13:35, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
I agree with Boris, they are on Gibson's page, and they have little place here. -- Falcorian (talk) 19:38, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
The episode list is now getting quite large so I've made it "hideable". It seems like the list is expanded by default though I do believe it would be possible to have it collapsed by default, allowing the user to show the episode list if they want to. Perhaps this would be better than having the table showing by default? I'm not sure how to do this though. -- Tim1988 talk 12:12, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
The link to the Podnova ratings has changed to http://www.podnova.com/top40/. How are link changes in references sections handled in general? -- Raffen 18:04, 28 May 2007 (UTC) 20:00, May 28 2007 (CET)
The list needs to be updated more often I added 97 but someone still needs to make sure the list stays up to date. -- Bob12321 01:27, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
Is it a good idea to have a coloured background for the new mailbag episodes? -- RpgCyco 12:21, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed in the past, that while we are linking to Gibson's security now page, the dates have been taken from Leo's twit.tv website. Shouldn't the dates be taken from grc.com so it's all consistent? That's my opinion anyway. :) -- RpgCyco ( talk) 07:19, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
I just added Eps 207 - 209, and stopped short of using the blue highlight for Ep 209, as the blue seemed to be used for Out-of-band updates (extra episodes not released on the official release day of the podcast.) However, it DOES seem like there should be some special notice of this episode due to it's being mostly devoted to Steve's discussion of Vitamin D, and very little about Security. If no one objects by next week, I'm going to choose an appropriately DIFFERENT color and highlight it. NipokNek ( talk) 13:13, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
Have now done my edits and choose a shade of yellow (#FFFF99) for this occasion. NipokNek ( talk) 10:37, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
I am temporarily removing the reference to the podcasts copyright status. Leo Laporte's page references the Creative Commons by-nc-sa 2.5 license, however Steve Gibson's page says "The contents of this page are Copyright (c) 2008 Gibson Research Corporation". I'd be willing to bet that the license on Steve's page is just a boilerplate, and I'm going to send him a message about that, but until there's a clear answer it should probably come out of the article. NipokNek ( talk) 06:59, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
And they very helpfully went and specifically mentioned the CC license in episode 212, so I put it back. http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-212.pdf NipokNek ( talk) 05:13, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
The episode list is generally not up to date (almost five months missing as of now) and has already grown very long. I suggest removing it from this article and just link to the episode list on grc.com/sn. What do you think?
Ehamberg ( talk) 13:47, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was not moved. There appears to be clear consensus that WP:MOSTM applies here. -- rgpk ( comment) 18:20, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
Security Now → Security Now! — Official name see http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm and text in transcripts for every show. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 14:39, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
I just spent 15 minutes looking for sources for this article, and I feel frustrated. I found several reliable, secondary sources which mention the show, but none which treat it with more than a trivial mention. The article has been tagged for "primary sources" cleanup for over two years. Has anyone else tried to locate any?
I agree with above posters that the episode list provides excessive detail and should be split, but can't justify that without establishing the list would meet the general notability guideline. For a list of episodes, that would mean reliable sources that have discussed the episodes as a group or set – in other words, sources which discuss more than one episode. If such sources can't be found, the list should be linked from this article instead. -- Pnm ( talk) 02:46, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
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Cheers.— cyberbot II Talk to my owner:Online 04:44, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
“ Then Gibson reads a testimonial for his software SpinRite.” - I was wondering if this could be worded something like: “Steve often updates listeners on his latest projects at GRC such as Spinrite.” I mention this because I listen every week (usually three times) and although Steve gives us spinrite updates, some weeks it barely gets a mention unless something interesting happened. I bring this up because it sounds like a host hawking products through the podcast. Steve isn’t really selling it hard or anything. I remember when he would read testimonials but they have changed to updates on the work and I wonder if this was a conscious thing. Thats my 2 cents feel free to disregard:) Eightyanthony ( talk) 10:09, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
Hard to find good refs on the podcast, but the links under "Popularity" seem to indicate some notability. With over 800 around 2 hour episodes there's a fair bit of material there. This [3] puts it at #6 on Apple Podcasts — US tech news, so that seems pretty high. Also #330 of global all podcasts [4] peterl ( talk)