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Tony S (UK)'s avatar

This made me think in a new way about my own profession. Cyber security is a wide problem - as wide as the internet. The selection pressure and self selection bias to become a cyber security professional is spectacularly narrow – if you can remain focussed on a complex system you’ve never seen before for 6 hours straight, get the answer, and realise you need a pee you’re a candidate. A wide and growing problem with a very narrow set of people working the solution. Most cyber security professionals provide solutions for businesses leaving personal cyber security (and awareness) way behind. The BBC program “Scam Interceptors” has done more to raise awareness in the UK about the threat than any government or public initiative (in my opinion).

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Susan Linehan's avatar

Thank you for pinpointing me and slathering me with butter. And I agree with all the reviews of Fluke. I've been recommending it on Facebook, where self-selection has resulted in a remarkable number of friends who will love it.

Another thing us buttery people appreciate is the breadth of what you focus on. A lot of us are rightly concerned with and interested in the minutiae of current political life in America--the focus on particular court decisions, particular events going on at the local or national level that will impact our lives in ways far beyond those currently hot minutiae. But it is really GOOD to be able to draw back from that, and draw breath, by being pulled out of the "bubble" that is life for any thinking person who cares about where the country is going and the into the bigger things that matter to understand HOW that bubble operates.

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