DyslexicAtheist

IMO study whatever you like, no? For me being deeply immersed in a topic that doesn't 1:1 translate to an improvement on the CV is its own pleasure. This way I get to read (complex stuff) for pleasure because it isn't connected to the career hamster-wheel. There is no pressure, while at the same time directly improving my foundation - whether that is Philosophy, pure Math or niche-History does it matter?

> better off focusing on what's actually in the modern world.

for example in my org it is part of the culture that security has no seat at the table. that is a separate problem, but the number of orgs like mine are more numerous than the number of orgs where security isn't a cost-center.

we find lots of stuff because low-hanging fruit is everywhere. hecking heck: I'm a fruit.

and when the cost of fixing is even the slightest inconvenience to devs we will not fix it, but continue sitting on the risk until the cows come home. In such a place a new critical finding isn't even novel. Instead our job moves to to combining different vulns that we already have, and try to show managers how bad it is.

the common retort from management is: proof to me why this is an issue, and why engineering should divert their attention to it. And unless my team can proof why X can be exploited, or Y can be bypassed, or Z can gain persistence, ... the vulnerabilities will remain. I have been in discussions where the business demanded to see an exploit so they can justify the cost of fixing it. low-cyber-maturity doesn't even describe it. we are not a mom and pop shop but have 110K employees worldwide. and again - we are not uniquely insecure.

so these guardrails aren't helping because the moment the chat has any offsec artifacts, or even just a single wrongly worded phrase anywhere in the workspace, the session is flagged, you need to downgrade the model.

what adds insult to injury, is that the guardrail is just a way to funnel users into the Ai company's "cyber marketing" program: "your chat has been flagged, please proof your identity and hand over your passport data so you can sign up to our TrustedCyber program". Bitch please you have my payment information, use that??

if you consider bug-density (security defect density) per LoC, it is even more of a sh1t show: no restrictions apply for developers to push their buggy code, but the security team needs to somehow proof that they aren't the malicious party?