Lesley Carhart Aug 4, 2024
I’m honestly shaken at the number of infosec people, particularly women, who are endorsing and spouting Russian transphobic misinformation about Olympic athletes with added hateful TERF rhetoric. In public, right in front of queer and trans peers. Some I used to consider friends. We all see all of it. It’s absolute hell for trans community members. We need to be calling this crap out for what it is.
Show threadck0Aug 4, 2024

@hacks4pancakes *sigh* I don't know in north America, but sadly, in my country, cybersecurity people aren't the sharpest knives in the kitchen. When I was working in a SOC team, I was baffled by the lack of mind openess there was. That was probably an especially bad team, but still. After just raising the subject of trans-identity without talking of myself, I've "win" some "nice" nickname.

In a more general manner, cybersecurity (still in my country, I don't know in north America) starts to be a crowded field, there is more or less any kind of people in this. But cybersec people are still a majority of white cis male, and they love too much shit posting, when it's not too insulting about themself. I'm not really surprised that some people in our field takes this opportunity to shit post, because it's still not about them.

However, I find this very ironical to be like this just after the CrowdStrike issue, and after all the data breaches we had this last years.

Show threadLesley Carhart 
@ck0 I’m definitely not claiming to be the sharpest knife. I’m just trying to do the right thing 🥺😥
Aug 4, 2024 at 3:46amWeb
Show threadck0Aug 4, 2024

@hacks4pancakes I'm sorry if you felt like I was accusing you of anything, that's not the case ! 😖

I wasn't talking about you, it was about cybersec people in my country (western EU). I know too much of them which will be probably too happy to have a new shitpost subject like this.

By just raising this, you show that you are more open and human than many !
  

Show threadLesley Carhart Aug 4, 2024
@ck0 just was saying