A Hacker, A Hacker Convention?
So it gets around twitter, this “infosec eliteism,” of “hacker” conventions. Most of these conversations have multi-layers of m
The first layer is “so What do you doo for a living?”. Asking this to a random stranger, or comparing yourself based on occuption marks you as the same sort of sad yuppie fuckstick we really don’t need in this or any subculture.(Thank you hipsters). The sad reality is what once started as a scene of hobbyists has quickly become a scene of the sad bro-proffesional that most of us hated. The best are hobbyists. The best didn’t go to college for infosec to figure out what a bunch of snotnosed teenagers figured out 25 years ago. For many, if not most of us, this is a hobby, not a career. For me, especially, “I work in infosec” with few exceptions is strikes against you as either “giant sellout”, or alternatively “giant poser”. Myself, I’m not apt to pursue a career in asslicking, or the certifications and background checks which instantly disqualify anyone interesting. Perhaps I would, but so far no one has been willing to drop the required coin on table, and I’m more than happy to work as a “lowly Engineer.” My associates, background, and substance consumption is never up for discussion.
The second layer is the “anti-elitism” bullshit. No. Just No. No one is really “anti-elitist”. Most of them just want to swap their own elitist attitude for the current. Mostly, its the mainstream people want very much mainstream white upper middle class standards to apply universally, but no one, and I repeat, no one wants to here it. For most nerds, its removing any technical standards, which we all excel, and replacing them with the same upper middle class pretentious, over-rated, under skilled, “professional” class of slackers we all took their jobs 15 years ago.
What both have in common is they fall under the dark cloud of “info-sec”. This is supposed to be a conventions for “hackers”.
