Rob Hansen
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For many years I was one of the faceless nerds who helped keep democracy afloat. I studied computer security and electronic voting in graduate school, worked […]
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What I despise most about these cybersecurity degree mills isn't the shoddy quality of their educational product. I grew up in public schools: I'm used to that.
No, it's the fact they don't ever warn you about the toll. Of course they don't.
If they did, 90% of the class would leave.
If […]
No, it's the fact they don't ever warn you about the toll. Of course they don't.
If they did, 90% of the class would leave.
If […]
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March 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
What I despise most about these cybersecurity degree mills isn't the shoddy quality of their educational product. I grew up in public schools: I'm used to that.
No, it's the fact they don't ever warn you about the toll. Of course they don't.
If they did, 90% of the class would leave.
If […]
No, it's the fact they don't ever warn you about the toll. Of course they don't.
If they did, 90% of the class would leave.
If […]
Cybersecurity is the highest-profile stuff in the field. Everybody wants the fame, the recognition, the cachet that comes from being one of the anointed. It's like being a writer or a musician: everybody wants to be Stephen King or Steve Vai or be a DEF CON speaker or Black Hat lecturer.
And […]
And […]
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March 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Cybersecurity is the highest-profile stuff in the field. Everybody wants the fame, the recognition, the cachet that comes from being one of the anointed. It's like being a writer or a musician: everybody wants to be Stephen King or Steve Vai or be a DEF CON speaker or Black Hat lecturer.
And […]
And […]
Classified briefing spaces have special rules that must be followed if you're the first one in or the last one out. Since RHIP and blame is best when shifted, imagine the shenanigans if you're a guest in a new space and the last person who knows the procedures leaves for the day. You can't be […]
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March 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Classified briefing spaces have special rules that must be followed if you're the first one in or the last one out. Since RHIP and blame is best when shifted, imagine the shenanigans if you're a guest in a new space and the last person who knows the procedures leaves for the day. You can't be […]
Blame is best when it's shifted onto the innocent. I knew one guy who was asked to talk to a high school class about satellites. He turned his lecture notes in for pre-approval and they were verified unclassified. He gave the lecture and a week later was told his approval was in error: his […]
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March 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Blame is best when it's shifted onto the innocent. I knew one guy who was asked to talk to a high school class about satellites. He turned his lecture notes in for pre-approval and they were verified unclassified. He gave the lecture and a week later was told his approval was in error: his […]
Rank hath its privileges, or as the government saying goes, "different spanks for different ranks". A young NSA analyst named Reality Winner leaked a classified document to the press and received a lengthy prison sentence. CIA Director Petraeus leaked classified documents, multiple, to his […]
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March 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Rank hath its privileges, or as the government saying goes, "different spanks for different ranks". A young NSA analyst named Reality Winner leaked a classified document to the press and received a lengthy prison sentence. CIA Director Petraeus leaked classified documents, multiple, to his […]
Second, the truth will always be used against you. If on Friday the background investigator accuses you of hiding major felonies and on Monday you're concealing your alcoholism, it was always bullshit and the investigator is either lazy enough not to keep the story straight or is hitting you […]
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March 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Second, the truth will always be used against you. If on Friday the background investigator accuses you of hiding major felonies and on Monday you're concealing your alcoholism, it was always bullshit and the investigator is either lazy enough not to keep the story straight or is hitting you […]
@andrewg — in graduate school my friend Ezra Sidran and I had a long-standing argument. Some fraction of programmers were genuinely harmful to society. We disagreed bitterly on whether it was 80% or 90%.
Ez ultimately agreed I was right and it was 90%, which is why the ensuing laws are the […]
Ez ultimately agreed I was right and it was 90%, which is why the ensuing laws are the […]
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March 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
@andrewg — in graduate school my friend Ezra Sidran and I had a long-standing argument. Some fraction of programmers were genuinely harmful to society. We disagreed bitterly on whether it was 80% or 90%.
Ez ultimately agreed I was right and it was 90%, which is why the ensuing laws are the […]
Ez ultimately agreed I was right and it was 90%, which is why the ensuing laws are the […]