Game Over
Howdy! It's been a year, eh? Hope you're doing great. Anyway, just wanted to swing by to bitch about, well, everything? I don't know anymore. The world's gone insane, and I really cannot tell what's earnest, what's shitpost, what's propaganda, and what's LLM garbage.
How do we, cybersecurity professionals, operate in this environment? How are we supposed to help keep information secure when nothing matters anymore? I mean, it was not easy before all this, but now? It's nearly impossible. The incentives for reasonable cybersercurity were not that great, now they're probably disincentives.
It was bad enough to have to deal with the cornucopia of threat actors when it did not include the federal government of the nation where most big tech lives. Now? What's to do? The little regulation that existed is gone or about to be. Your most sensitive data is available to some fuck who goes by the name "Big Balls". Why would anyone worry or invest in cybersecurity when you can just join Hitler Elon's Youth and grab what you want? What's stopping some really bad dudes from doing that? Nothing at all. Put on your Dark Goth Stupid MAGA hat, head to the Department of Defense, and grab some blueprints. Who's gonna stop you?
Work for a company that's publicly traded in the US? The very small deterrent that was the SEC is gone. Why would you worry about form 8-k disclosures and associated costs? Being inconvenienced by some bureaucrat doing their job? Just book a couple of suites in a hotel with a certain name, and wait for your troubles to go away.
Again: this shit was hard enough before, now it's impossible. You can't protect against this threat because you can only operate by interacting with this threat. The only way to fix this is for the threat to stop being a threat, and I don't think that's going to happen. Call's coming from inside the house and all that.
I am fairly confident that there will be some silver lining here in the form of everything related to cybersecurity getting a huge discount because demand will plummet. Why would you pay to go to a conference to learn the latest and greatest when it doesn't matter? Why pay good money to get a certification that means nothing?
If your job is to worry about cybersecurity, data protection, and privacy, good news: you don't have to worry anymore. That game is over. Unless, of course, you don't depend on US companies for anything, and that's almost impossible these days.
Hold onto your job if you have one, because things are going to get wild.
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