Imagine spending your whole life taking things apart to see how they work & trying to improve them.
Imagine exploring that curiosity & hacking together a career that lets you spread the means to make a living from it & help dispel bad misconceptions about you & your friends.
Imagine being the 1st to hack certain types of targets as they came online, forging new paths, creating industry-wide standards, correcting bad regulations to keep clearing wider & wider paths for others to follow in safety & prosperity.

Imagine your life as an industry pioneer.
Then imagine you’re a woman. Of extreme ethnic minority to the point fellow Americans don’t have a clue where your family is from or that those islands are part of America.
Imagine being underpaid, passed over for promotions, gaslit, abused, harassed
So you start your own company with no investors or debt & grow it to profitability while paying people generously, without relying on worker exploitation or VC funny money to look successful.

Imagine you are genuinely successful by any measure

THEN
LOOK
AT
MY
MENTIONS
& DESPAIR
Why aren’t there more women/minorities in security?

Don’t ever ask a woman why, nor how to fix it, EVER again.

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