Looking for perspectives about the above. On my meanderings around the web I’ve found cybersecurity is all the rage now, cybersecurity experts are desperately needed. Looks a bit like a protection scheme to me - first have everyone save their data in the cloud and buy a smart fridge, then flood everything with ethical hacking courses and cybersecurity certifications.
Reminds me of my marketing translation days working on copy where you always were supposed to outpace your competitors by using some [insert software here]-as-a-service solution to ‘compete in an increasingly fast-paced business environment’. Yay rat race.
On the other hand, as to cybersecurity experts, we will need smart people who can re-stupidify our smart appliances when they go rogue.
What would you consider ethical work within IT? Now and in a brighter future?
Everything from doing taxes to registering your car to all sorts of civil stuff can be done online here, also every public website runs you through a half-hour captcha marathon, and most sites are old and really strange. I’m always torn between cheering the system on as it crumbles, and help making it work again.
Almost everything can be done online here too, and it’s amazing seeing how many fancy looking front ends are hanging on by threads in the backend.