Robert GrahamI oppose censorship and cancel-culture at infosec conferences. This will probably get me canceled.
https://cybersect.substack.com/p/stop-with-the-cancel-culture-in-infosec
https://cybersect.substack.com/p/stop-with-the-cancel-culture-in-infosec
I'm screenshotting this response because I don't want engagement with it's author, but at the same time I think it's important to see the sort of behavior that's acceptable in the infosec community.
hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦@ErrataRob unpopular take: there is no infosec “community”
Viss@hrbrmstr @ErrataRob this is my take as well. that crowd doesnt act like a 'community'. its basically a forum trying to cheat their way past "having any skills or experience" and getting security jobs
@ErrataRob @hrbrmstr i get the impression its less about the mainstream than it is "there is no barrier to entry". if you want to be a doctor, you have to prove you can do the thing. a lot. for years.
if you want to do infosec you just dye your hair or watch some youtube videos, copypaste some text from a blog, cheat your way through a cfp or cert program. and bam. now youre a 'thought leader' or 'the ceo of a social engineering company'.
with zero technical background.
its wild.
@Viss @hrbrmstr As an old techie, I assume that those replacing me would be creating techie innovations. I didn't expect it would be those saying "omg, why you gatekeeping me, anybody can be a hacker!!".
I mean, I agree there's a lot of worthwhile stuff in the community that doesn't need my sort of technical skills, and there's certainly the "Hackers" 'lite one-upman-ship going on. But at the end of the day, what we do is technical.
@ErrataRob @hrbrmstr its impossible for me to reconcile:
"i want to secure computers for a living"
with
"i have no fucking idea how computers work"