Tuesday, May 01, 2018

CISSP Training

I'm at a company event doing CISSP training, ready to bite the bullet and schedule the exam in June, either before or after Toorcamp. Currently we're going over a somewhat familiar domain involing cryptography, so I'm reading a lot of Feedly and tweets using Tweetdeck.

https://khanism.org/society/how-social-media-destroyed-my-generation/

Not terribly convinced by this post's hyperbole; to be fair the author isn't so sure himself anymore.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/01/607054795/nra-bans-guns-during-convention-speech-by-president-vice-president

This is literally a non-issue. The President and Vice President are speaking, the last thing the Secret Service wants is guns not in their hands in the same room or hall as the colloquial "45" and Co. I might dislike Trump intensely but still understand that security protocols have to be followed everywhere, regardless of the supporting stance of the organization under whose auspices they are there. If they were talking at a pen-knife convention would people be up in arms if pocket-knives were banned? Maybe if pocket-knives were used as weapons of mass destruction and killings? Something smells fishy.

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