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Hacking aside, it's great to see the perfect diversity score: 50% male/female. Silicon Valley should take note.
Here's a recent article about it:
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39579321
In the west, the woman is traditionally the housewife.
DVR devices are insane. I do regular surveys of random IP addresses and find these devices everywhere . They're easily identified by the headers that the embedded servers respond with. Typically they're cheap devices from China using the same tech just with slightly different branding. They usually have default passwords like admin:admin that users aren't required to change and often have vulnerabilities that grant a…
Hacking aside, it's great to see the perfect diversity score: 50% male/female. Silicon Valley should take note.
This is what makes me skeptical of the diversity movements in America. In Romania and even Russia it seems women are very well represented in tech and there are no movements there. It seems to me that these movements are mostly used for political maneuvering and are not helpful at all.
The thing is - positive discrimination doesn't solve the problem, because it comes from school. You need to encourage girls to take science classes - it has to be expected of them that they do so (rather than go towards, e.g., humanities). That, I don't think is actively happening in the US or even some parts of western europe.... by the time you're dealing with graduates, it's already too late to fix the gender-imbalance problem.
[1] My little daughter's godfathers are German (she grew up in Romania, but he didn't). She told me that among german women, it's a thing of pride to be bad at math. And that her daughter was praised in school that "you're pretty good, for a girl". With that sort of attitudes during childhood... it's bound to be hard to get gender balance later (that "praise" would be perceived as insult here)
Hacking aside, it's great to see the perfect diversity score: 50% male/female. Silicon Valley should take note.
In Eastern Europe women in engineering has tradition. Its all about role models and social norms. Here's a recent article about it: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39579321 In the west, the woman is traditionally the housewife.
Hence, a smart woman wanting high social status kind of had two options: become an engineer or a doctor. First option was easier and also less painful (doctors were also subjected to nasty shit like having to relocate to unpleasant places without choice because there was a demand for their services there, some areas like surgery were also much less women friendly etc.).
Also, dunno about Rusia, but in Eastern Europe, even now, there is a good "girls in math" story. Maybe less in physics or computer-science, but in pure and applied math there's lots of girls. Probably most of the smart ones jump ship more towards finance than tech though, when they realize they can't really get a nice paying job with a math degree alone.
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This is what makes me skeptical of the diversity movements in America. In Romania and even Russia it seems women are very well represented in tech and there are no movements there. It seems to me that these movements are mostly used for political maneuvering and are not helpful at all.
I'm from Romania. The general balance is pretty far from 50/50, and there are some not-so-nice jokes about women in CS (e.g. "mamma had 2 girls; one was smart & beautiful, the other one went on to study computer science"). Still, from what I saw (I work in a US company) - I suspect it's far better than US, and maybe even western europe[1]. There's no expectation that if you're a girl you must suck at math (or science…
I'm gonna assume this Eveline Cismaru is not the hacker mentioned in the article: https://www.starnow.co.uk/evelinecismaru
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This is what makes me skeptical of the diversity movements in America. In Romania and even Russia it seems women are very well represented in tech and there are no movements there. It seems to me that these movements are mostly used for political maneuvering and are not helpful at all.
I'm from Romania. The general balance is pretty far from 50/50, and there are some not-so-nice jokes about women in CS (e.g. "mamma had 2 girls; one was smart & beautiful, the other one went on to study computer science"). Still, from what I saw (I work in a US company) - I suspect it's far better than US, and maybe even western europe[1]. There's no expectation that if you're a girl you must suck at math (or science…
When I was going to school girls were usually better at math. I remember getting help from them with some calculus problems.
My CS teacher in high school was a woman as well and before teaching she worked as a programmer. She was a great role model for girls I'd imagine. Well she was a great role model for me too because she was a great teacher.
DVR devices are insane. I do regular surveys of random IP addresses and find these devices everywhere . They're easily identified by the headers that the embedded servers respond with. Typically they're cheap devices from China using the same tech just with slightly different branding. They usually have default passwords like admin:admin that users aren't required to change and often have vulnerabilities that grant a…
Hacking aside, it's great to see the perfect diversity score: 50% male/female. Silicon Valley should take note.
This is what makes me skeptical of the diversity movements in America. In Romania and even Russia it seems women are very well represented in tech and there are no movements there. It seems to me that these movements are mostly used for political maneuvering and are not helpful at all.
DVR devices are insane. I do regular surveys of random IP addresses and find these devices everywhere . They're easily identified by the headers that the embedded servers respond with. Typically they're cheap devices from China using the same tech just with slightly different branding. They usually have default passwords like admin:admin that users aren't required to change and often have vulnerabilities that grant a…
A big factor might have been ISP-provided routers coming with random passwords printed on the underside of the router instead of uniform defaults. The same tactic would work with many IoT devices but the incentive isn't there.