Hi, author here. I didn't intend to submit this one to technical news sites like HN. I hold my technical blog posts to a higher bar than my opinion pieces, and

Hi, author here. I didn't intend to submit this one to technical news sites like HN. I hold my technical blog posts to a higher bar than my opinion pieces, and this is definitely the latter category. I don't mind that someone else decided to submit it, but it's one I intentionally omitted. I get asked a lot, "Why are there so many furries in infosec?" and "Is everyone secretly a furry?" a lot. This post was meant to share my observations on the inside, rather than make a strong argument about society at large or provide lessons that can be extrapolated outward. If you'd like a sample of the sort of thing I would submit to HN from my blog, the most recent post is probably https://soatok.blog/2021/03/12/understanding-extended-nonce-constructions/ https://soatok.blog/2021/03/12/understanding-extended-nonce-... (although it failed to attract any attention).