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by fdroidmstrrce 1863 days ago
This is me.

There's nothing more boring than those positions. (Or to me, unethical than working for the US government)

I'd much rather create something that benefits the world.

Maybe the partial solution is bug bounties? As much as I'd hate those positions, I actively poke around for holes in websites for fun. I love when I have to do business with a small poorly run website, seems you can always find something they don't want you to have access too. Most recently, no right click to save images, but chrome developer tools got me the high res version anyway!

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> (Or to me, unethical than working for the US government) I'd much rather create something that benefits the world.

I’ll be a little more nuanced. I’m very appreciate of the hard work nist does posting best practices and guidelines on privacy, zero-trust, crypto, and other things. The SP series of publications are well respected and do lift the entire industry up to some minimum standard. In some cases they actually move things forward by a lot (like the AES competition)