{"generator":"GNU social 2.0.2-dev","title":"Conversation","totalItems":1,"items":[{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/users\/securingdev","displayName":"Keith Hoodlet :verified: :donor:","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/28692-original-tmp20231024214646.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/28692-96-20240330153256.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/28692-48-20240321041126.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/28692-24-20240330153256.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"28692"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/28692-96-20240330153256.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Director of Security Research @ 1Password; OSCP; OSWA; Vulnerability Whisperer; Blogger; Occasional podcast personality; Top 300 Security Researcher on Bugcrowd \ud83d\ude08","url":"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/@securingdev","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"securingdev","displayName":"Keith Hoodlet :verified: :donor:","note":"Director of Security Research @ 1Password; OSCP; OSWA; Vulnerability Whisperer; Blogger; Occasional podcast personality; Top 300 Security Researcher on Bugcrowd \ud83d\ude08"}},"content":"<p>One thought that I can\u2019t seem to shake lately is that there\u2019s an absence of \u201caccounting for evil\u201d.<\/p><p>There\u2019s a lot of discussion around what people propose we need to do in order to address $CRISIS (take your pick\u2014there\u2019s plenty of them to go around). These proposals usually incude reasonable and altogether positive steps that involve people working together.<\/p><p>And then I remember that there\u2019s a small percentage of the population who classify as either sociopaths or psychopaths. And, somehow, those people end up in positions of power\u2014or control vast sums of wealth, and thus influence those in power.<\/p><p>It makes me wonder how the proposals would change if they accounted for the fact that evil people exist, and that evil people will act (or are acting) to counter their proposal(s).<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-10:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/users\/securingdev\/statuses\/116187830388283321","object":{"id":"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/users\/securingdev\/statuses\/116187830388283321","objectType":"note","content":"<p>One thought that I can\u2019t seem to shake lately is that there\u2019s an absence of \u201caccounting for evil\u201d.<\/p><p>There\u2019s a lot of discussion around what people propose we need to do in order to address $CRISIS (take your pick\u2014there\u2019s plenty of them to go around). These proposals usually incude reasonable and altogether positive steps that involve people working together.<\/p><p>And then I remember that there\u2019s a small percentage of the population who classify as either sociopaths or psychopaths. And, somehow, those people end up in positions of power\u2014or control vast sums of wealth, and thus influence those in power.<\/p><p>It makes me wonder how the proposals would change if they accounted for the fact that evil people exist, and that evil people will act (or are acting) to counter their proposal(s).<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/@securingdev\/116187830388283321","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-03-07:objectType=thread:nonce=6841747e87fe3a55","notice_info":{"local_id":"12251886","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-03-07T15:38:08+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/@securingdev\/116187830388283321"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/6216256","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}