Gregory P. Smith (he/him)  🚲🦝 Mar 9
Jackie Singh

Infosec pros fight ransomware, APTs, and foreign disinfo for a living. But when Trump weaponizes clearances, hollows out @CISAgov, and unleashes @DOGE as a systemic insider threat, our industry mostly chooses self‑preservation.

Join me as I unpack that trap: https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/the-industry-that-fights-governments #infosec

Mar 7 at 1:25amWeb
Show threadKris HardyMar 7
@hackingbutlegal I think you have a really good read on it, and this path seemed clear enough to me in 2016 that I refused to do any government work and started to volunteer with peace activists. Between being in a military-centered city and issues with my mental health, my contracts dried up. Recruiters for defense contractors were hitting me up constantly, and I would tell them to fuck off. I honestly didn't know any way forward while keeping my morality and sanity other than leaving the US. I unfortunately still don't.
Show threadGeorge SaichMar 8
@hackingbutlegal
I am not surprised. My experience in decades of IT work was that many of my colleagues were completely coin operated.