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Weird Socks

@hacks4pancakes
I'm a water engineer.
By accident and fall-of-Twitter, I found myself following a bunch of infosec accounts who mostly post gibberish I don't understand.

And, yet, I find myself continuing to follow you all...

21 Jul 2023 at 18:08 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.seattle.wa.us
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Lesley Carhart :unverified:

@ohmu there’s thing inexplicable triad of bartenders, hackers, and engineers (usually mechanical engineers, but hey)

21 Jul 2023 at 18:09 | Open on infosec.exchange
Weird Socks

@hacks4pancakes
A result: the outfit I work for is almost all cis het white guys with no sign of furry-dom anywhere.
Now, I spend days worried that said outfit is probably grievously vulnerable.

21 Jul 2023 at 18:21 | Open on social.seattle.wa.us
Tindra

@ohmu @hacks4pancakes that’s a perfectly logical worry. It’s really hard for a homogenous group (especially one that is relatively privileged) to get a holistic understanding of risk.

21 Jul 2023 at 18:25 | Open on infosec.exchange
Rich Smith ":unverified:" (Ace Tomato Company)

@ohmu @hacks4pancakes
Are you sure they're not hiding in plain sight, tho? Every org has folks with some extracurriculars few in work would know. Compartmentalization is a quickly acquired skill.

21 Jul 2023 at 18:37 | Open on infosec.exchange
Greg
Frank Barton

@hacks4pancakes @ohmu That group of people is one that you should "NEVER" start a question with "I wonder if..."

or maybe you should... you never know what you'll end up getting

21 Jul 2023 at 18:23 | Open on infosec.exchange
¡feduardo!
@hacks4pancakes @ohmu As a former software developer who now works in a bar, can confirm. Although the worst was the guy last night (who eventually said he was a programmer) who’d had an edible and wanted to ask me all about my job, but was too stoned to understand my answers.
21 Jul 2023 at 19:39 | Open on distraction.party
Lord Doktor Krypt3ia
hexamander

@ohmu @hacks4pancakes Eventually, as you gain context, the gibberish may begin to make sense!

...it's how we get ya. ;)

21 Jul 2023 at 18:45 | Open on infosec.exchange
Thomas Carlton

@ohmu @hacks4pancakes I get it... I'm a French Linguistics professor and nearly all the accounts I follow are tech and dev stuff!

21 Jul 2023 at 19:00 | Open on piaille.fr
Dei Layborer

@ohmu @hacks4pancakes If you can understand fluid dynamics, you'll be just fine :)

21 Jul 2023 at 19:07 | Open on writing.exchange
Pamela Keetch

@ohmu @hacks4pancakes
Same thing with me....and I follow many of their links to articles, read them, then start having micro infosec panic attacks on top of my usual "the entire world is dissolving before my eyes" panic attacks. And yet, like a horrific train wreck, I can't look away depsite knowing I will never be able to unsee it all. So here we are.

21 Jul 2023 at 20:25 | Open on mstdn.ca
Rémi Menegon

@ohmu @hacks4pancakes Time to take your #cissp certification and start your #infosec career.

22 Jul 2023 at 2:03 | Open on infosec.exchange
Weird Socks

@firewave
That does sound cool.
I already have a PE license and a WDM4 certificate, though. That's enough letters and numbers for me for at least the next little while.

22 Jul 2023 at 2:11 | Open on social.seattle.wa.us
Lesley Carhart :unverified:

@firewave @ohmu I don’t have a CISSP and they’ve somehow let me do this globally for 20 years.

22 Jul 2023 at 6:21 | Open on infosec.exchange
QRSS_Test

@ohmu @hacks4pancakes I’m a router jockey and packet pusher. Following #infosec here and on the bird site really upped my game and improved the security posture of $DAYJOB. Welcome aboard.

22 Jul 2023 at 4:45 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
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