Twenty five+ years ago as I filmed the video the image above came from I was already an experienced system administrator. I was around 17 years old, I had a couple of jobs, and I had had a few before that. I was blissfully unaware of the way of things, and ready to embrace the new world that tech was bringing. While stories of computer security were my gateway to the network closet lifestyle, I was way more interested in why the server backup was creating packet storms that took everything down at zero dark thirty every other night.
A network monkey, sorry engineer once told me that "this isn't the NSA" when I asked about improving basic security measures for a production system. I watched as "more with less" and "it's fine" turned into a multi-week org wide outage effecting thousands of people. I moved on and found a wonderful world... Mucksec!
Journalists are hyper-specialized, they can spend lifetimes chasing minutiae. They will ask questions a reader would never think to ask. They can survive on caffeine and paranoia, which it why I love them. When I realized that my users were more paranoid than I was, I knew I was home.
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