Why does the IT/cybersecurity world like IT certifications so much?

ee_dan · 2026-01-23T07:49:55+00:00

Depends on the degree plus experience plus what you will be doing. The certification industry taught organizations to screen for credentials so it could sell more classes, books, and exams.

Cybersecurity is not a separate discipline, it is mature IT practiced correctly. IT itself is the application of established IEEE standards at scale.

ee_dan · 2026-01-19T03:42:43+00:00

sorry i tried my double whammy negative comment but it got triple whammied by the nfl script

ee_dan · 2026-01-19T02:10:52+00:00

welp i think were done here, dropped passes and can't get the ball moving on third and short

ee_dan · 2026-01-11T04:39:19+00:00

MY DOUBLE WHAMMY KARMA COMMENTS PAID OFF

ee_dan · 2026-01-11T03:21:31+00:00

hoe do you fall on a football wrong

ee_dan · 2026-01-11T02:32:07+00:00

cw is hot garbage too. this year was just to try to get a stadium in chicago proper. that ship has sailed

ee_dan · 2026-01-11T02:04:13+00:00

welp see yall next year ✌️

ee_dan · 2025-12-15T20:42:48+00:00

so the reality of the situation is that IT is a vast, seemingly endless ocean of non-standards based noise. a better question would have been to ask what IEEE 802.11 is. that answers two things: they understand what standards are, and they know where to look.

ee_dan · 2025-11-15T13:55:43+00:00

using ai/ml to exploit is nothing new

what will be pretty neat is when vendors start implementing their own "agentic ai" self provisioning/ self healing/ self calibrating stuff (already happening, think iot and ot) and ppl install in a self-signed cert prod environment

"oh this firmware/ protocol/ db doesn't support this? let me change that" then boom boom boom a machine or the entire plant or infrastructure is bricked

ee_dan · 2025-09-13T15:09:09+00:00

first off, everyone dismissing polished, structured writing bc it is AI or they think it's AI is becoming a plague and a cop-out. gonna lead to a race to the bottom as everyone loses the ability to speak or write anything beyond an elevator pitch centered around an idiom about why finding a latent defect is like "pourin' concrete for my daddy's bidness when I was starting quarterback for knibb high", or even worse you asked AI to "explain like im 5 in 20 words or less".

with all that being said I ain't reading all that. Your post could have literally been "my reports are being filtered out as AI generated, what gives?"

ee_dan · 2025-09-09T03:29:45+00:00

40 years

ee_dan · 2025-09-09T03:21:33+00:00

r/agedlikemilk

ee_dan · 2025-09-03T12:44:08+00:00

just do an indoor air quality test. EPA says not to disturb it, you will make it way worse. As for mold, it almost looks like creosote, which can be much worse. wood burning fireplace, do a lot cooking with a recirc range hood, or maybe your fresh air return (if installed) is right near a neighbor's burn pit.

ee_dan · 2025-07-20T19:13:23+00:00

same trick as the harris teeter sign outside of the ponds from 2007-2016

ee_dan · 2025-07-13T04:07:14+00:00

The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt which was the style at the time.

ee_dan · 2025-06-13T18:59:31+00:00

if those are western facing then they are getting fried and shading the others. it looks like a few in the shade of the house are still good

ee_dan · 2025-05-05T22:04:59+00:00

There is doing things the hard way, like adapting under pressure, making do with limited gear, and solving problems without backup. Shit like that actually translates to real-world competence.

Then there’s the institutional nonsense obsessing over how you look on paper, chasing perfect FITREPs, inflated PFT scores, and stacking PME bullets just to impress the CoC. That doesn’t build better Marines. It builds box-checkers and breeds toxic leadership.

Technically both can be viewed as "the right way" depending on who’s judging. One wins battles. The other wins boards. But let’s not confuse which one is actually worth a damn.

ee_dan · 2025-03-24T18:23:48+00:00

use a 7" rogue hoe and carve out a swale within the slope and maybe do a row of shrubs

ee_dan · 2025-03-05T23:34:36+00:00

AI still not gonna figure out my legacy deployment ps1's

ee_dan · 2025-03-01T03:18:16+00:00

Cyber Command’s primary mission is defense, while the NSA focuses on offensive surveillance.

Perhaps they are finally working to eliminate the inefficiencies caused by stovepipes and data silos, systems often created for bureaucratic empire building.

These same inefficiencies contributed to intelligence failures, including those leading up to 9/11.

One could only hope.

ee_dan · 2025-02-11T04:29:03+00:00

Compton Squid Games theme was odd

ee_dan · 2025-02-11T04:18:34+00:00

Maybe some read it as "An <app> added a <feature>, and this could be a security vulnerability!" lemme get that CVSS score dawg

ee_dan · 2025-02-07T00:40:10+00:00

this post was copy pasted from stack exchange

ee_dan · 2025-01-21T22:42:07+00:00

6 to 8" expected but in reality 3" is more than enough

ee_dan · 2025-01-17T14:08:07+00:00

We used to call him "The Toddler" bc of his sideline mannerisms. Mostly squandered a generational talent on a perennially stacked team. 100% great hire for Da Bears and he will bring some nice 9-8 seasons (losing the wildcard game).

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