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Yeah, lines like that belie a contempt for security professionals and the work they do that paints the rest of the argument in a different light.
by reanimus 3y ago
Yeah, lines like that belie a contempt for security professionals and the work they do that paints the rest of the argument in a different light.
- er4hn 3y agolcamtuf _is_ a security professional. He created p0f, AFL, wrote Silence on the Wire, and has done cybersec jobs from engineering to executive leadership. He has taken to posting mildly trollish stuff ("poasting") on Xitter, but this seems like a well reasoned reply to "Is rewriting entire codebases in a different language worth it?"
- reanimus 3y agoYou can argue whether or not the contempt is justified, but if your default position towards others in your field is "they're incompetent and just want to generate work for others", I'll be taking what you say regarding whether or not a given thing is worth working on with a grain of salt.
- kevingadd 3y agoThis is valuable context for the post, so thank you for explaining who the author is. It makes his stance on his colleagues all the more confusing though and I can only interpret the post as trolling. At least they're informed opinions, so I can understand why it got posted here.
- kbolino 3y agoSadly, 90% of "security professionals" give the rest a bad name. Unfortunately, for whatever reasons, large bureaucracies seem to have decided that, after doing the same thing to network engineering and systems administration, computer security is just a dump profession in which you put slightly dim people who are only good at repeating mantras. For every pen tester or true security expert who breaks things for fun in their spare time, I've run into far too many more of the "just make the vulnerability scanner turn green" type. It's quite unfair actually that they get lumped together.