On: Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list

[ivanmontillam]

It's being a great season, techsecurity-wise.

[Avicebron → ivanmontillam]

On HN everyone is a security engineer.

[renehsz → Avicebron]

There are only two types of people: Those who are security engineers, and those who pretend to be.

[keeda → renehsz]

There are only two types of software engineers: Those who are security engineers, and those who don't know that they are security engineers.

[gilrain → Avicebron]

They wanted "full stack", so they found hires with 1/10th of an education in each of 10 different fields.

The boss class are rich because they're smart. /s

[greenavocado → gilrain]

> 1/10th of an education in each of 10 different fields combined FTFY

[0c3ca83 → greenavocado]

But they're cheap 10x engineers.

[greenavocado → 0c3ca83]

You need to constantly be hiring. They're basically consumable. Throw 10 of 'em in the furnace and they burn up. Then you get some more.