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  • The cyber security emails in my company are so fucked up that everyone is paranoid to open up any email. Maybe it was fear. Or maybe it was collective malicious compliance. Or maybe we’re all just sick of it.

    A manager last week said nobody filled out a company intake form because they used a new survey software, so the url didn’t look familiar.

    The CFO emailed a PDF of a presentation and people were afraid to view it during meetings.

    In the chat software, we are constantly going, “Is this real?”

    Congrats security nerds.











  • You can just post this question at any point in the past 50 years and there will be a lot of people who agree with you and pull something out of history.

    Because it’s in the immediate now, it feels like the current event is the most extreme thing, the peak of bullshit.

    If you want to get even farther (and fall into a spiral), you can actually review the past 200 years. Early in the 1900s, we invaded the Philippines. In the 1800s, we were massacring natives/indigenous people.

    These are extremely broad strokes I’m emphasizing.

    Again, this is a rabbit hole of darkness and I don’t recommend subscribing to the “everything is shit” philosophy. Do take a step back into history and do recognize that there has always been a significant (in your words) level of stupid, a low point of intellectualism and accountability.