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“You don’t want to be that person”: What security teams need to understand about developers
Real real funny. They've got a security gig of sorts online, and “you don’t want to be that person” at work if you’re a rank-and-file developer. They throw a big lasso and ride roughshod over everyone else thought to be infringing on their line of work. There’s Schneier on Security, Naked Security, and Krebs on Security.
That’s a lot of copping and handcuffing and fictitious “jailbreaking” going on.
And get this. “Naked Security” and friends suddenly got their clothes on like an inner-city gang of nightclub bouncers on collective bargaining labor-union benefits, and practically everybody else in the business is naked online.
So otherwise competent people suddenly act woke or gay online and refuse to man up and deal with their own security issues. All of a sudden we overhear a corporate conference call, “We’re shutting all the hacker websites down, but now we’ve got to deal with the local police all over the place.”
Security is serious. The big bosses came together and got really stodgy all of a sudden. So all the party pranks, practical jokes, and dirty tricks they’ve been playing on us all along just don’t happen anymore. They suddenly stopped having fun and ceased all their recreation and amusement.
I don’t believe it.
Not for a minute.
No. It’s a casino nightclub together with a gun club we’re suddenly not invited to anymore. And obviously there’s “fun” that has gone a little bit over the line of what “fun” is. Oh they’re still having fun, believe you me. We’re just not a part of it anymore. The party pranksters, practical jokers and dirty tricksters have become car-trashers, home-wreckers and life-ruiners, and that’s where we conclude there’s getting to be too much mafia “in the business.”