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Opening an article these days with: > Who knew that Sony’s top brass, a line-up of mostly white male executives, earn $1 million and more a year? is just take advantage of a difficult moment and increase the `hate`. I don't get why this could happen on magazine like Wired... Reading comments on the article seems that statement is pretty unfair. I didn't check myself because I think reading those informations is bad a…
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Let's talk numbers. A "fraction" of a bonus. Let's assume their bonus is a paltry 100k. A good infosec pro expects on average to be making at least 200k, so you have already blown out your budget. You can take a swing at hiring a consultant, but that gets you 5 weeks at around 70k, so you are eating a huge chunk of your fractional bonus budget. Consultants don't really work for systemic problems like this though. Son…
> A "fraction" of a bonus. Let's assume their bonus is a paltry 100k. A good infosec pro expects on average to be making at least 200k, so you have already blown out your budget. I agree with your overall point, but the first page of the leaked salary list alone has something like $35M worth of bonuses. Say the high-level execs are the only ones sacrificing their pay, and the 'fraction' of bonuses was 20%, you'd have…
Opening an article these days with: > Who knew that Sony’s top brass, a line-up of mostly white male executives, earn $1 million and more a year? is just take advantage of a difficult moment and increase the `hate`. I don't get why this could happen on magazine like Wired... Reading comments on the article seems that statement is pretty unfair. I didn't check myself because I think reading those informations is bad a…
Does anyone else miss the days when "white" wasn't a race?
People can, I suppose, miss the days when "white", as a term for a race, had almost exclusivey positive connotations when used by anyone with any influence in society and pine for the days when white privilege was so strong as to be virtually unquestioned, but you shouldn't mistake missing that for missing "white" not being a race.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/4/7333263/the-malware-that-t... in the article it says "and the computer that did the compiling was set up to display its text in Korean characters." i have a problem digesting this, because as per my experience, the compiler doesn't leave a trace the native host's display language or does it? what do you people have to say about it?
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Let me rephrase the question here, we could either spend $1m on some gobbledegook that those fast talking nerds saying we need, or we could get bigger bonuses. We worked hard and bonuses would be tangible, when asked about how we will know if $1m expenditure a year is working fast talking nerds talk even more quicker about something that amounts to 'nothing bad will happen'. We are arguing here from position of knowl…
Explaining 'how it happened: because human' is not the same as 'shouldn't have to care about security'. In fact, I'd argue that those big bonuses would imply that they're professionals worth the money, and should be making more robust decisions.
With security you either pay for it now, or you pay for it later. These companies who make lots of bad mistakes seem to have opted for the latter.
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That was a different Sony company that was hacked. I don't think they share much in common except the Sony name.
It was twelve different Sony companies. It was clear that no part of Sony had any interest in information security.
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Does anyone else miss the days when "white" wasn't a race?
"White" has been used as a common term for a race longer than anyone living has been alive, so, no, I don't think anyone alive could miss the days when "white" wasn't a race. People can, I suppose, miss the days when "white", as a term for a race, had almost exclusivey positive connotations when used by anyone with any influence in society and pine for the days when white privilege was so strong as to be virtually un…
Opening an article these days with: > Who knew that Sony’s top brass, a line-up of mostly white male executives, earn $1 million and more a year? is just take advantage of a difficult moment and increase the `hate`. I don't get why this could happen on magazine like Wired... Reading comments on the article seems that statement is pretty unfair. I didn't check myself because I think reading those informations is bad a…
Oh, no! Pointing out that a corporate power structure is overwhelming white and male is so unfair to those that are white and male. I used to be this author's editor and that lede is very Wired. Sad to see this "tone policing" comment is the top-voted comment on this thread.
Sad to see how easy is for "media" to jump from a trend to another even out of context.
Sad to see once again "you" pointing to "me" while "you/crew" had fun reading gender, ssn numbers, stipends and felt free to report your vision.