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But I'm sure you also know system architect at Facebook with actual CS degrees. I'm not saying music degree people can't be good engineers, but saying "no info
by Cookingboy 9y ago
But I'm sure you also know system architect at Facebook with actual CS degrees.
I'm not saying music degree people can't be good engineers, but saying "no infosec people have CS degree" is plain absurd.
- busterarm 9y agoIt really depends on your social circle and what area of infosec you're in. I've socially been in the 'hacker community' for most of my life and virtually nobody that I associate with from there has an actual CS degree. A few folks got Physics degrees, but the vast majority of people I know left school to work and have not finished. Myself included. The other very common backgrounds that I encounter is people who served in the military and people who backdoored their way into it from being sysadmins.
- sp332 9y agoGood thing Alice doesn't say that, then. The headline strongly implies that having a music degree means that you can't be a good engineer.
- busterarm 9y agoTotally ignoring the fact that she was magna cum laude for her BA and summa cum laude for her MFA. And 15 years of experience working in tech. She could have her degrees for computer music for all we know, which at the time she got them probably would have required some serious programming chops.
- jpk 9y agoYeah, it is absurd. Maybe that's why the tweet doesn't say that. (^: