Security Expertise Debate
Comments discuss how many Hacker News users claim or act like security experts on security topics despite lacking expertise, contrasted with opinions and insights from actual security professionals emphasizing how hard security is.
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Why does everyone start talking like a security expert when security topics are posted?
Security consulting seems like a thing.
Security is hard, even for people who know what they are doing.
So many people think they know security, so few people do.
Kind of curious to hear from HN folks who work in security and what they think about all this
As someone working in security ... this does not surprise me at all.
Please read "the security mindset" by Bruce Schneier:https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_...
This is what it looks like when people don't recognize that security is a spectrum.
Wait until you find out that some of the best security folks didn't major in anything!
Thanks, never heard this in just technical circles but haven't been close to any security work.