On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:46 AM, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:
... No nonsense Omidyar has bet $200 million on peddling security products generated by his $50 million investment in insecurity scare news via Snowden cornicopia of NSA scare programs, which in turn have received huge boosts of counter-Snowden actions by the usual suspects of mil-com-spy-edu-org-hackers.
modern security analysis requires ever increasing skills and knowledge, driving the pool of practitioners ever smaller. combined with demand from government and private industry for private research, paying researchers to work in the light rather than [REDACTED] a hard sell. this is one aspect of Project Zero i am keen to monitor, as the initial recruiting is top talent and top dollar. research to harden software against advanced threats and analyze advanced attacks encountered almost always locked behind non-disclosure, confidentiality, classification constraints. independent security research and state-of-the-art security research at odds, increasingly so, day by day.
Nothing like it since 9/11. Thank you, Edward Snowden, thank you media, for prolonging godsent cyber fear and salvation. Dust off cyber Pearl Harbor posters for Defcon, HOPE, Blackhat, this very sordid squat.
an industry in sorry shape[0] and much volatility, for sure. Google's "Announcing Project Zero" post itself only accessible via plain-text, attempts to https redirected back to plainly observable and trivially tamper-able. that mathematicians are having an introspective moment to consider their role in mass privacy violations, and in turn advocating for employment outside such private industries is a telling contrast to the relative silence in infosec where developing weaponized exploits, not just precursors or components, has yet to generate an honest and open discussion. "Mathematicians Urge Colleagues To Refuse To Work For The NSA" http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/05/mathematicians-urge-colle...