[dang]

This is unduly personal and therefore beneath the standard this community ought to keep. Not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[tptacek]

It's also fucking stupid. Peiter "mudge" Zatko from the L0pht, Stripe's new CSO, has a music degree from Berklee.

You can't criticize Equifax's CSO about her degree without revealing how little you know about the infosec field.

[dang]

Thanks for that.

The middlebrow dynamic has to do with assuming one knows more than one does and trying to constrain the spectrum of variation. Since unexpected variations are often the most interesting, that is a big bad deal.