I heard recently that an Australian #cyber recruiter was asking people about their childhood experiences - pulling apart computers etc - as part of a formal interview.
If you're still doing this, you're hiring for middle class and wealthy people, who were assigned male at birth, whose parents were tinkerers or wealthy, and you're skewing for neuro diversity.
There's nothing wrong with people who fit that bill. But you're angling very narrowly there.
Be mindful:
girls, and assigned female at birth people, are not encouraged to play with electronics, if they even have access to them
especially if neuro typical, girls (at least until the late 90s) will have gotten the message that it's not right - so unless they're very, very keen on tech, or very, very unconcerned about how they're perceived, they may have avoided playing with electronics even if they wanted to
poor kids don't often have access to electronics
poor parents, or those who grew up poor, tend to punish or scold children who break things, so the kids don't tend to do that if they can help themselves
you need people who grew up interested in other things too. Like how people work, and aesthetics, and logistics and all sorts of things.
Please, please, please stop pursuing only one kind of person.
Still have no idea how to get followers on #mastodon. Teach me your ways! Follow me if you like #retrogaming, #80s / #90s#nostalgia, #tech / #cyber related stuff, and #dog pics! Keep me away from Twitter, I beg of you.
:HackerCatRainbow: https://cyberpunk.lol is open for registrations!!! :HackerCatRainbow:
WHO ARE WE?
we're a small scrappy relatively fresh-faced underdog instance of glitch mastodon. we have but one humbly stated mission: to put the PUNK back into cyberpunk here on the fediverse
WHO AM I?
i'm vanta. trans enby girl polyam lesbian gender terrorist, the fediverse's favorite pirate radio DJ, DIY clothing auteur, and rogue wordsmith extraordinaire. i've been a hardcore fedi user since 2017
THREADS?
not only is this instance a fedipact instance that has threads.net blocked, but... i'm the one who made the whole pact to begin with lmao
I'm Meowry, a Brazilian queer software engineer, focused mostly in #FrontEnd development.
Out of work my interests include #makeup, #goth and #cyber subculture, heavy music -- mostly #metal and its subgenres but also eletronic music and #jrock (can you guess what my handle is referencing btw? hehe).
I'm a sociologist at heart and almost got a degree on that field but that's a long story. I'm passionate about academic studies about #gender and #queer#sexuality.
I am #nonmonogamous for more than a decade now and you'll definitely see me talking about it here. I love and support many #erotica and #nsfw art and eventually I'll boost them -- always with CW and image sensitivity filter on by default!
There's a lot more to talk about so feel free to follow! I'll toot mostly in Portuguese-BR but also English.
#Introduction: I am a freelance tech and reportage journalist writing about #cyber topics and even writing a #cybercyber book right now. Besides that my favorit topics are #machineLearning/AI and social #VirtualReality. I am a speaker and moderator, too. When it comes to writing I prefer longforms and creative storytelling. Sometimes I also produce radio features.
🧶[#Thread] Interdiction des #VPN, permis #cyber pour l'entrée au collège, label objets connectés, transparence des algorithmes...
Les députés Renaissance ont déposé des dizaines d'amendements pour le projet de loi visant à sécuriser et réguler l’espace #numérique étudié la semaine prochaine.
Finally fully grok hash length extension/padding attacks. So I wrote a play-along guide, in case it helps others get their head around this gnarly cybersecurity concept:
The evolution of Ukrainian hacktivists looking to contribute to their country's war efforts, from independent and disorganised "denial of service attacks" to sophisticated hack and leak campaigns with government support.
The xz issue highlights once again that we can't just hope that private sector corporations invest in the #opensource that makes their business (and profits) possible.
Perhaps we need public sector investment in carefully selected open source - and by that I don't mean the big fancy stuff, but the tiny tools that most people don't even know is there - like xz.
After all - how much of the world around us would collapse if all open source vanished at midnight?
I'm having a few thoughts on social norms. I'm used to IRC and Usenet, where a channel or group is understood to be an open forum and, when people make a statement, it is seen as normal for anyone else, acquainted or not, to respond to it, even tangentially.
But on more social-network-style graph-based communications where the flow is determined by a follow edge between nodes or something like it, a lot of people find it disturbing or invasive to have strangers pop into their mentions to rebut, add, or jump off from their point.
I think this causes a lot of friction and expectation mismatches. I don't think either norm is wrong, though it is useful if people make it clear which one they're expecting.
For the avoidance of doubt, I'm an IRC-type person. If I'm posting public or unlisted, I do not mind strangers to disagree with me, add their own twist, or give their own reaction. I will also respect the desire of graph people who don't want me to do that to them.
Someone @mch2022camp had "TwinkPad" stickers. Since my daily driver for work is now a Thinkpad I clearly need some to irk compliance. Does anyone have a clue who made these? #stickers#MCH2022Camp#cyber
Avons nous, en France et en français, une plate-forme éthique de divulgation de faille cyber à but non lucratif ?
Type openbugbounty ?
Si oui, laquelle ?
Ich würde sehr gerne einen Thread schreiben, aber der Text hat 25.000 Zeichen und seine Stärke (behaupte ich) liegt in der Differenziertheit. Ich habe jedes Wort abgewogen, und ihn nun kurz zusammenzufassen, würde ihm nicht gerecht werden. Die Essenz ist im Prinzip die Überschrift: Spitzer überspitzt - in weiten Teilen auf unzulässige Weise, wie ich finde. Dabei geht wichtiges unter.