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   SwiftOnSecurity (swiftonsecurity@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 14:57:07 JST SwiftOnSecurity

   Something ingrained, that I realize now others do not have, is knowing the solution to failure is offering a better solution. I have tried shame I have endured compliance. I ground this axe years. You need the market to decide you've won. I sold modern policy baselines to fix user experience. I won.

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     SwiftOnSecurity (swiftonsecurity@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 14:57:06 JST SwiftOnSecurity

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     I have lived as the vindictive policymaker. I was that person. Earnestly striving to make things better, vacillating between rage and despair. Completely morally just in context, but wholly empty in solution durable. I have been the emotions. And it produced nothing. Only being better mattered.

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     SwiftOnSecurity (swiftonsecurity@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 14:57:06 JST SwiftOnSecurity

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     In the chaos of the un-designed, with understanding of possibility under an architect, you should be able to find optimization through vision. My job is Security Engineer, but my job is not Security. It's producing a better solution that is secure. Which is better because it simply is better.

     Hrefna (DHC) and Rich Felker repeated this.
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     SwiftOnSecurity (swiftonsecurity@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 14:57:06 JST SwiftOnSecurity

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     As junior staff, you will misunderstand engineering and safety as in conflict. But they're not. You've simply approached the problem too late. Safe designs can be even more elegant. They can add complexity, but which eliminates absurdity and indeterminacy. You have to understand beauty first.

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Andrew Zonenberg (azonenberg@ioc.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 18:29:33 JST Andrew Zonenberg

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     @SwiftOnSecurity I've always considered security to be a subset of reliability, emphasizing on faults triggered by malicious actors rather than random malfunctions.

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     SwiftOnSecurity (swiftonsecurity@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 23:36:13 JST SwiftOnSecurity

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     Perhaps you'd think farcical in comparison, but I always felt a fervent ownership and want to protect people and information. And I saw glaring failure, basic mistakes. And I sat in that, wondering why nobody cared. Why didn't they care like I did. And you know what that got me. It got me nothing.

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 23:36:13 JST Eaton

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     @SwiftOnSecurity it’s an absolutely insufferably “podcast guy” kind of narrative but Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is so closely related to these themes for me; curious if you’ve read it.

     It touches on both the pursuit of “quality” as an inherent elegant match between the tool and the task, and the poisonous “freshman’s disease” of learning enough to be frustrated and stalking off to change the world without studying the insights of those who’ve gone before.

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     SwiftOnSecurity (swiftonsecurity@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 23:36:14 JST SwiftOnSecurity

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     Beauty is the natural procedure, beauty is the interlock. Where you have made something that in natural states resists being ugly. You will make compromises; be prepared. The world is not beckon to your aesthetic call. But it's something I've found true operating at the highest levels of execution.

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     SwiftOnSecurity (swiftonsecurity@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 23:36:14 JST SwiftOnSecurity

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     Forgive my dismissive attitude towards people who think they will change the world on their first go 'round, with plea and petition. Because I was exactly the same. I wanted to fix the world, my world at least. And I strived. But I didn't know how. And I sat in that despair. I sat in it for years.

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 23:37:07 JST Eaton

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     @SwiftOnSecurity Remembering the latter bit saved me from more than a few quixotic “reinvent the world” autodidact adhd adventures…

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 04:57:35 JST Eaton

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     • Andrew Hinton

     @andrewhinton @SwiftOnSecurity well, “more than a few” still leaves enough room for my entire 20s, sooooooooooo :D

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     Andrew Hinton (andrewhinton@jawns.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 04:57:36 JST Andrew Hinton

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     • Eaton

     @eaton @SwiftOnSecurity lol I’m not sure I absorbed that lesson completely when I read it in high school 😅