“Ultimately, there is no shortcut; you might decide to sweat it out through a master’s degree or through publishing research and code on GitHub, but either way, you’ll have to earn it.”
Claudio Guarnieri is a security researcher, artist, and human rights activist. He researches the use of technology as a means for repression and provides assistance to human rights organizations, journalists, and activists with issues surrounding computer security, privacy, and surveillance. He also plays music, creates art, and writes.
If there is one myth that you could debunk in cybersecurity, what would it be?
The most recurring myth I encounter is that security isn’t everyone’s problem. The reality is that using secure and privacy-enabling technology isn’t just beneficial for yourself, but it is, in practice, an act of solidarity. If we demand technology to be better and safer, and for security to be taken seriously, we contribute to building a global ecosystem that’s to everyone’s benefit—including you, the company you work for, the public offices that provide you services, as well as a journalist reporting on corruption on the other side of the planet.
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