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2 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This is a great demonstration how people don't believe in science, that they treat it instead like politics or religion.

In politics/religion, what you believe now is something you should always have believed. In science, you change your mind.
50 years ago, people didn't know what we know now about climate. There were lots of studies with predictions all over the place, including many predicting cooling. (No, there was no consensus on cooling like today's consensus on warming).
What some people do is go backwards in time and cherry pick those things that agree with modern knowledge and claim "they knew all along" while ignoring all the rest of the stuff where people believed other things.
In science, you are supposed to be uncertain and change your opinion as more evidence and studies happen. It's only religion and politics where uncertainty and changing opinion is a sin.

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Robᵉʳᵗ Graham😷, provocateur Profile picture
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Not since Crown Sterling have we had this level of insight. To be fair, it's only RSA Conference, where this sort of thing is the norm rather than the exception.
Security wasn't an "afterthought". Instead, it's a separate layer based on the belief that there cannot be a one-size-fits all security solution.
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In other words, they didn't come up with SSL right away, but they came up with an architecture in which SSL and many competing solutions (like IPsec) can be layered on top of the existing infrastructure.
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Nobody sees themselves as a "special interest". They believe they are fighting the good fight against "special interests". That's the attitude shown below.
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Privacy invasion is in the public interest. For example, Apple and Google maps can tell you the time to your destination and route your around traffic jams because they get all this information about traffic by monitor phone locations.
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Victim blaming is to become the basis for cyber policy in Washington. It's easier to punish the victims inside our country than going after the bad actors in other countries.
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Most people believe that cyber victims are guilty of some moral weakness: ignorance, sloth, greed, lust, etc. Thus, whenever cyberattacks happen, they blame the victim for being weak.
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So I looked in this.
Committing crimes like arson won't get your license suspended.
It's ethics violations like lying to the court that gets your license revoked.
The court cited numerous clearly false statements by Giuliani claiming election fraud.
Giuliani's defense is that he didn't know all those election fraud statements were lies. The court doesn't believe him. The breadth of his lies was so huge it wasn't difficult for the court to document them.
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Note that these aren't things that people still disagree about, that some believe are true.

These are statements which the court proves are untrue, which even Giuliani admits were not true.
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Companies should support BYOB allowing employees to use personal devices, especially phones and laptops, for work. Only REALLY sensitive things need to be segregated, like admins who can destroy the company with ransomware.
In other words, even from a cybersecurity perspective, companies need to be tolerant of the fact that they cannot control employee devices.
I say this first before pointing out that employees need to keep work and private life separate. It's not for the company's sake, it's for your own sake. Your should have a separate email account (like Gmail.com or Outlook.com) for private stuff.
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#1 McAfee was never the face of cybersecurity
#2 he struggled with addictions long before he created his anti-virus program
McAfee disappeared from the hacking/infosec scene in 1994 when he was pushed out of his own company after it went public.

It reappeared in 2013 after he was pushed out of Belize because of a murder investigation. Every serious person knew not to take him seriously.
It's hard for me to call him a "charlatan" because nobody serious took him seriously. He was instead very fun and entertaining.
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