Instance Subtoot but
"information security focused social network INVITES US federal department of homeland security onto their instance" reads like a fucking parody sketch
How is this real life
@mawr I have NO CLUE. If you are a big infosec person shouldnt it be a mark of shame to be pro fed? After Clipper chips, Snowden, Wikileaks, chelsea manning, NIST, and all of the other terrible things the government has done?
infosec, politics
@ava Mmm, I'd say that this issue in many ways predates the "official recognition" of infosec as a field, much of infosec history is colored by it.
For example, there's long been a problem of many in the infosec field being just straight-up power-hungry assholes, who wield their knowledge as a sort of 'weapon of dominance' over others.
Government/corporate recognition of infosec has basically just laundered those practices, as long as they are in the service of capital and oppressive power.
@joepie91 I guess that happens when your whole industry is regulatory compliance, lipservice to real technical issues, and looking pretty