[tptacek]

I don't understand what you're trying to say here. I'm not surprised you didn't know about the blog; you appear not to believe blogs existed in 2006.

I want to stop being elliptical and just say directly: you have strange and counterfactual ideas about the security research community of the mid-aughts. 2006-2008 was the height of the security blogosphere. This stuff definitely had a huge community.