Creating art which is then roundly enjoyed by others has helped me with perfectionism.
Intellectually, I know that ‘perfect is the enemy of good’.
Unfortunately, my standards for my own work are often far too high to encourage incremental progress & learning in public.
2/8
Part of the reason why I feel that way is because the security community is so frequently negatively judging. As this is the community I joined from a young age, it has molded my behavior to be far too constrained & limited — in direct opposition to the hacker ethos.
3/8
Judging the work of oneself & others to an extremely high (& often unattainable) standard reduces the likelihood that people in a given community will produce original work for the benefit of said community by releasing it publicly — even when such efforts are sorely needed
4/8
The community essentially molded my behavior to the point where I have refused to release original work in the security space.
Meaning: useful code/scripts. Methodologies. Process improvements. Updates to the state of the art in information security. Incremental progress.
3/8
I haven’t always felt the things I’ve created have been good enough to stand up to the intense scrutiny which comes from both being a woman and a human in this space — and even if they were, I wanted to avoid the minutiae of the forced and oft-entitled/angry peer review.
4/8
Through the work and culture of infosec, I’ve developed an extremely keen eye for mistakes, errors, and systematic problems — and often fail to state how much I appreciate the value of someone’s work before criticizing it.
5/8
Yet what I’ve helped make has received so much kudos, & the process of making them has been so enjoyable & validating, that I feel I am “good enough” to release artwork for public sale & consumption under my own name — even if not at the level of a Kandinsky or Warhol.
6/8
Seeing the support and kindness people make the effort to express in the #NFTcommunity (within certain communities on Discord especially, shout-out to @itskay_k) has repeatedly shown me that there is another way, and not everyone is like this outside our weird little bubble.
7/8
I’d love for the infosec community to recognize how our overly-critical reactions to the work of others is often the opposite of encouragement, even if well-intentioned, and reduces opportunities for us to effectively learn from each other to improve our craft & culture ❤️
8/8
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Ever feel overwhelmed or distressed after taking in the news?
You might be experiencing vicarious trauma. 😰
It can happen when you are exposed to traumatic events, even from a distance. This thread 🧵 is about how to spot the signs and protect your well-being.
What does vicarious trauma look like? The signs can be behavioral, physical, and psychological:
> Social withdrawal, irritability, trouble separating events from life
> Headaches, gastrointestinal trouble, fatigue
> Intrusive thoughts, cynicism, disturbed sleep, or feeling numb
Steps to control your exposure to distressing content:
Before you view, hit pause and ask yourself:
> Do I need to see this now?
> Do I need to see all of it?
During viewing, try making the window smaller, lowering the sound, or reducing color saturation.
Great list! 👏 TYSM for recognizing me as a "very niche" cybersecurity creator and influencer who is known as "THE go-to expert" in my respective areas of security.
Down below👇I have linked four‼️valuable stories for #tech, #infosec, and #cybersecurity professionals.
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1. Are you aware that conversational AI tools may be secretly collecting & analyzing your users' sensitive information, posing a growing threat to their privacy & autonomy?
These are not conflicting views. You can want for the people of Palestine & Israel to peacefully co-exist and for the apartheid & genocide to end while also decrying the garbage leadership of both nations. Yes, I cheer for the death of terrorists who do not love their own people.
No, I will not give Netanyahu an "attaboy" for genocide which includes 20K children and destroying many multiples of other lives/communities for the sake of eliminating Sinwar. Nobody should. The atrocities in Gaza cannot be left unanswered. Those responsible must face the ICC.
Reviewing the government's complaint against the alleged Israeli Embassy shooter "Elias Rodriguez" revealed additional suspicious patterns of behavior which could be markers of tradecraft that strengthen my case for intelligence involvement in the murders of Sarah and Yaron.
1. Pro Timing & Logistics:
- OPSEC: Last-min ticket purchase (3hrs before event)
- Planning: Interstate firearm transport via commercial airline
- Minimal exposure window via 1day operation (arrived May 20, attacked 21st)
- Target-rich environment: Gathering of Israeli diplomats
2. Behavioral Anomalies:
- Immediate surrender after attack, unusual for genuine extremist
- Calm confession without lawyer present
- No escape attempt despite advance planning suggests mission completion priority
- Theatrical political messaging: Keffiyeh as prop
🧵THREAD: 🚩🚩🚩 Red flags suggest the Israeli Embassy shooter "Elias Rodriguez" isn't a genuine American progressive, but possibly an agitator from an authoritarian regime. I analyzed his Goodreads reading list which has 279 entries stored since 2012 under a name that isn't his.
1/9 Real American leftists typically discover Russian literature through college (Tolstoy, Dostoevsky). This person reads obscure Soviet political figures - Molotov memoirs rated 5 stars! That's knowledge usually gained through family/cultural transmission, not U.S. education.
2/9 Genuine campus radicals usually start with contemporary issues (climate, inequality) then work backward to theory. This dude shows the reverse: started with dense communist theory (2013-2015) then applied it to current events. 12-year systematic preparation looks professional
1/ I found a perfect lil' nugget while performing a basic linguistic analysis of the Israeli Embassy shooter's manifesto (published by Klippenstein, who was allegedly visited by fed. agents wanting to know where he got it).
My analysis suggests the phrase "highly legible"...
2/ My analysis suggests the phrase "highly legible", when applied to an action, represents a classic "calque": a direct translation that preserves the semantic structure of the source language rather than adopting natural target language expressions.
3/ In Russian, the word "читаемый" (chitaemyy) encompasses both "readable" (for text) and "comprehensible/intelligible" (for actions, situations, or concepts), but English restricts use of the word "legible" exclusively for written material.