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by prvit 4y ago
Probably not, it's been almost a decade now. Someone might still be on probation. Even Jeremy Hammond is out since 2020, he'd been sentenced to 10 years.
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by prvit 4y ago
A CS degree is to information security what an English language degree is to law.
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by prvit 4y ago
>In fact, at many institutions, the infosec major is very similar to the CS major. Sure, but the best security programs don't even exist in the same department as CS. At CMU Information Security is run by the College of Engineering,
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by prvit 4y ago
>What could be more impactful than the social security numbers, personal information, and financial records of every adult in the US? You could already buy just about any adults SSN for a dollar from various breach aggregators well befor
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by prvit 4y ago
>It is literally true that she had no relevant formal training. Yes, but that's also true of almost all BigCo CISOs. >It is also true AFAIK that when she got her first role as an executive in charge of security By "AFAIK&quo
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by prvit 4y ago
>They certainly would if a company led by this man lost the records of 150M people that did not consent to their data being collected. I haven't heard anyone saying that about Metas CISO, or Twitters CISO, or Ubers CISO. For example
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by prvit 4y ago
But it's literally not true. The person had decades of experience working security roles.
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by prvit 4y ago
We're specifically talking about a field where even a decade ago "proper education" was only offered by a couple of schools in the world. Compsci is not an infosec-related degree.
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by prvit 4y ago
Okay, name one person. I'm sure it's easy to find lots of qualified people with compsci degrees, but that's not a relevant degree .
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by prvit 4y ago
>The only person that made this about the CISOs gender is you. OPs point was about the lack of credentials, which would apply to anyone. Except it seemingly doesn't apply to literally every other CISO. Does the CISO at Meta have a r
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by prvit 4y ago
>You will never convince me that Equifax could not have hired a CISO without decades of relevant IC and leadership experience and appropriate educational background. If it's so easy, surely you can name a couple of people with decad
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by prvit 4y ago
It's not a valid criticism of anyone. Essentially zero people with that kind of work experience have infosec degrees. It's hard to get a formal degree on a subject which isn't taught anywhere! For example: HN loves Mudge, who
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by prvit 4y ago
>People in technical leadership roles should have formal training and should have spent some time in the trenches, full stop. We hold most other specialized leadership roles to this standard: Chief Financial Officers, Chief Legal Officer
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by prvit 4y ago
>How is it sexism if it's true? Or should people not bring this up because she's a woman? Nobody would ever bring this up about a man, most CISOs have similar degrees. You haven't even been able to get a formal education o
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by prvit 4y ago
It's a nasty sexist lie. The person had no relevant degree (as is the case for most people working in security roles, because such degrees didn't exist until very recently). The person did have a literal decades of relevant experi
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by prvit 4y ago
If you were a Goldman Sachs employee rapping about dealing drugs, you'd be ridiculed and quite possibly end up shot. Every year multiple rappers lose their lives over this stuff. Not a good thing, but indisputably a part of the cultur
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by prvit 4y ago
None of this means that you have to pay taxes. But yeah, you're right. If you get audited, you might have to explain to the IRS that this is not compensatory income.
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by prvit 4y ago
No, Sabu got only 1 year of probation.
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by prvit 4y ago
Celebrities play a different game. The adversary isn't the entire empire, but merely the resources the empire is willing to expend to get you. Assange and McAfee worked hard to feed their adversaries.
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by prvit 4y ago
>See McAfee, Assange, and Snowden. Only Snowden had the OpSec not to get caught - by escaping the influence of the US. This is ridiculous. You're deliberately limiting your list to only fugitives that also choose to be celebrities a
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by prvit 4y ago
The whole point of the podcast is to tell made up stories in order to boost the child-entrapper Chris Tarbells public speaking career https://www.leadingauthorities.com/uk/speakers/chris-tarbell
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by prvit 4y ago
Anonymous was never a real thing, there was never any kind of an organisation. It's just a meme.
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by prvit 4y ago
Sabu never expressed any regret for his actions, to the contrary. You don't have to be a bad guy to accidentally hit someone with your car while driving. But if you don't feel bad about it afterwards, you're probably a bad gu
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by prvit 4y ago
Sabu did much more than just rat on his colleagues. If he had just ratted on his colleagues and was apologetic about it, he wouldn't get a fraction of the hate he does.
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by prvit 4y ago
Why is this getting downvoted? That's exactly what Sabu was doing. He and this FBI guy would approach random kids on IRC in order to entice them to join "his" prestigious hacker group. They weren't going after existing c
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by prvit 4y ago
Indeed. And it's worth it to note that Sabu isn't a creep merely because he snitched to save his own ass. Sabu worked hard to entrap more and more people, largely underage children, and had a lot of fun doing so. This isn't a
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by prvit 4y ago
> They also certainly aren't hurrying to allow corruption. That goes against company interests. I suspect that corruption might actually help facebook avoid a bunch of negative attention from powerful individuals who’d otherwise str
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by prvit 4y ago
Don’t forget the extra fun fact that you can legally take out the the sear from an old transferable machine gun, put it into a new gun and have yourself a legal machine gun where only the sear predates the ban.
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by prvit 4y ago
> You can carve one out of sheet metal in a couple minutes. This won’t stop evil people You can murder a person with the same level of effort. The only people affected by these garbage laws against murder are the ones who aren’t interest
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by prvit 4y ago
Oh, I didn’t even know route53 did domain registrations. I thought it was just a DNS service, my mistake.

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