• darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Cybersecurity, as a profession, is a fool’s errand.

    Dedicated security staff exist solely to teach real engineers how to do their job, and the fact that such personnel exist is a catastrophic failure in computer science curriculum

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      It often seems cyber sec staff write reports on what should be done with no understanding of why and this leads to them fretting over things that are not actual vulnerabilities.