Former Windows Vista hacker now hardening OS X, iOS at Apple
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Congratulations to Kristin. Hopefully this means OS X will be super secure and nobody will read my FireflyArrested Development crossover slash fiction until I am ready to publish it.
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ebbv":3d2331gy said:
I imagine Tobias's attempts to join the Blue Hands didn't go so well...
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ebbv":j8xvnc7c said:
I was right! I just knew there was a link between The Blooth Corporation and Blue Sun Corporation (i.e. Blooth Son Corporation). I'm sure this fan fict story will make the link very clear. Well done ebbv!
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I don't know if this was sincere, a joke, a troll, or what.Brigga":34zkgchh said:
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I'm hoping that it was a subtle, masterful troll.Kevin McKenna":e6u2e0t8 said:
But in case he's oblivious: https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_i ... ess_me.jpg
Regardless, good job Kristen.
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Jeez, the Wannabe Political Correctness Force is really at it again here.
From all I can tell, Brigga was sincere with his statement -- women are fairly under-represented in the IT field at least when it comes to technical jobs like programming etc., and at least whre I live, politicians try to encourage women to get an education and a job in IT. Same with other technical engineering jobs.
Nothing bad, "dismal" or despicable about it. Seriously, P.C. needs to die in a fire.
From all I can tell, Brigga was sincere with his statement -- women are fairly under-represented in the IT field at least when it comes to technical jobs like programming etc., and at least whre I live, politicians try to encourage women to get an education and a job in IT. Same with other technical engineering jobs.
Nothing bad, "dismal" or despicable about it. Seriously, P.C. needs to die in a fire.
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I was trying to be genuine. I'm sorry if I offended anyone. I read the first line of the article (as referenced below) and thought it was great a female is making the news. And before anyone asks I did read the rest of the article. Where I work there are next to no females in IT... anyway, moving right along...
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dizdizzie":32mx2s8v said:
I've never seen "Chris" as a surname, but fair enough. Here's his Twitter page that confirms it:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrisPaget
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myself, i would have just launched it off with, "Noted security researcher Kristin (formerly Chris) Paget..." and then just not trifled with it anymore. introducing the "formerly chris" part in the next to last paragraph disrupts the flow. 'tis how we wound up in this mess.
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Just in case you weren't confused enough. Also, for all intents and purposes, she is legally a woman.
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NeoPlasma":n8dvd46k said:
Heh heh, I *really* didn´t get that whole Kristen/Chris thingie, so yeah..... I missed a certain point here *cough*. Obviously, Kristen went down the transgender route .... good for her (I hope).
I still stick to what I said, though, regarding Brigga´s comment and women in IT. That doesn´t change because ... well... Kristen has changed.
OK, enough of that, let´s move on to tomorrow´s weather forecast...... *whistles*
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I wonder what she has discovered so far that we (hopefully) won't hear about until her Apple NDA expires...
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kidgeezer42":346c1xzw said:
Why? That would be far more boring.
So why is it that there aren't more women (who were born female) in the industry?
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I'm guessing it has something to do with the fact that you're a new poster?
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kidgeezer42":1jlg9ih3 said:
After this thread, we're going to wonder if the color tells us that a poster is a man or a woman.
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Interesting it took a "Unix head" to fix Windows. Great news she's working for Apple (OSX is Unix). Like glove fitting a hand.
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Fetishquest":vd31z5mb said:
I'm going to be charitable and offer a hint. While there are possibly a few, very few, people who wish to be referred to as "it", I can almost guarantee that group does not include very many transgender people. "She", not "it", not "he".
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I think it's supposed to be red, but ghosted (similar to the social media links at the bottom).kidgeezer42":6d3q5xsk said:
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jeffrey_jeff_de":obps4j12 said:
You can take a horse to water, but you can't force it to drink.
It seems to me that most of the media seems to be ignoring the idea that maybe just maybe women aren't that interested in the IT field.
Just as men don't typically seem to be that interested in the Nursing field.
Edit: Yes I know Kristin's back story.
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Moving on and getting back to relevance...
Glad to see Apple hiring some serious security folks. OS X may be fairly resilient to attack (depending on who you ask) but like any software it isn't perfect and definitely has weaknesses.
However, she probably had more influence to secure things being a Microsoft employee than an Apple employee just out of sheer volume of Windows machines out there. Fixing a security bug in a Windows build before shipping probably did more good than fixing a bug in a OS X build after shipping.
Glad to see Apple hiring some serious security folks. OS X may be fairly resilient to attack (depending on who you ask) but like any software it isn't perfect and definitely has weaknesses.
However, she probably had more influence to secure things being a Microsoft employee than an Apple employee just out of sheer volume of Windows machines out there. Fixing a security bug in a Windows build before shipping probably did more good than fixing a bug in a OS X build after shipping.
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I'd wager fixing a security flaw before shipping is always preferable to fixing it after shipping. But who's to say she isn't already working on OS X 10.9 and iOS 7?zonk3r":1f4pz22j said:
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That's an old and increasingly inaccurate stereotype about men and Nursing. One of my really good friends who is a guy went into nursing and now is in CRNA school. My mom was very ill this summer and at least 2-3 of her nurses were (very dedicated) male nurses.AdamM":cyc0xeze said:
Nursing is a great field for men to go into - their strength is needed in a lot of situations (turning over patients to prevent bedsores, etc.,) and if they are good, they can pretty much command where they work and get the best shifts since there is such a shortage of nurses in general.
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dizdizzie":2q7fvrk8 said:
English is my first language and I thought the same thing. It was very poorly written.
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NeoPlasma":2pwf6oqh said:
Why are you covering for Chris Foresman? It's HIS WRITING that was confusing.
"In 2009, Paget (then named Chris)" is misleading. She could've easily have been Kristin Chris. There's an actor Darren Criss, there's a Governor Chris Christie, why would it be a stretch for a 'she' to have gotten married since 2009 and changed her surname to a married one?
The confusion among those not familiar with the Paget is not the reader's fault; this is on a sloppy writer.
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HaVoC":3uwzqzq9 said:
Oh I agree. I am a male nursing student currently.
It just largely remains female dominated. All of my classes are largely female dominated. My CNA class for example had 30 people and only 3 males total including me.
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