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a more formal beehaw introduction thread (beehaw.org)
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the big stickied thread is getting cluttered with lots of new people and the "how was your week" thread isn't a great fit for introductions, so it seems about time to make this a dedicated thread of its own so peoples' posts aren't getting lost.

tell us a little bit about yourself, folks. don't gotta be too specific or revealing, just whatever you want to put out there. this'll be a good way of getting to know all the people you're now on here with

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[–] whitehatbofh@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hello to all. I'm yet another reddit refuge. Initially, I was quite bummed at the news about the API price out of the 3rd party apps that had made reddit at all usable. Having discovered Beehaw and Lemmy, I'm becoming quite glad. I'd already abandoned Twitter for Mastadon, but I never quite appreciated that the Fediverse was a thing until the Great Reddit Purge forced me to take a step back and re-evaluate my (digital) life.

I'm now quite glad those bastards are putting the last nail in that particular coffin. I've known the Internet from when it was young, and I remember the nettiquette of olde. This place has the feel of those days. It's nice and refreshing.

I'm an avid computer and cyber security geek with a love of reading, music, programming, sysadmining, teaching, and many other things. It's great to be here with ya'll, I'm excited to be part of this great community! :-)

[–] Hexorg@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hello fellow uhh… post-redditor? What parts of cyber security do you like? Funny how most people here are still programmers.

[–] whitehatbofh@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always been most keen on understanding how offensive cyber is conducted in order to best defend against it. What programming I do is just to facilitate that.

Are you also interested or involved in cyber security?

[–] Hexorg@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I work in the industry but on the nation state side. There’s a split in thee industry between corporate and nation state cyber because attack vectors are quite different. Nation states can find a team of researchers to find a zero day in whoever is a target, corporate cyber is likely to phish for access in millions of targets until someone lets them in.