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Lately on twitter, I’ve been seeing accounts of quite attractive young women, who are network engineers or security specialist or similar. Most of them have somewhat high following counts in the +20k. There are a bunch of similarities between them. They often have pronounce in the bio and sell some sort of book or course on how to do, what they do. Looking at the technical content they put out, it seems like incredibly basic stuff, such as running a password cracker like Hydra or running WireShark. All their Github profiles are more or less empty with no contributions to speak of. They seem to do little or no code at all, but they all appear to have employment in tech companies of various sorts.
I have only ever had one course in security, so I don’t know much about the field, but it was almost exclusively writing exploits in Assembly and some C. We were only allowed to use some basic tools to hexdump a binary and such. I do realize that in the real world you would use all sorts of tools available to you, but still, I would expect somewhat heavier technical skills displayed.
So I’m sort of confused. What do they actually do in their jobs? They don’t seem to have skills that I thought were required for that type of work. Are they just DEI hires? Why do they have so many followers? Is it just tech guys simping over women? Is the algorithm pushing them for some reason? I basically never see any such men (or maybe it is just my stupid ass only noticing the attractive women).
Does someone here work in the field, who can enlighten me?
Some examples of the most prominent:
https://twitter.com/TracketPacer
https://twitter.com/notshenetworks
https://twitter.com/inversecos
https://twitter.com/cybersecmeg
They could be in more people facing sales type roles. Many of the very few women who graduated electrical engineering with me ended up in similar admin/sales/project management roles that have the slightest hints of still being a technical role.
As for what explains these accounts? Probably the fact that there is someone capitalizing on every single niche that exists.
Csec is especially prone to consultant creep, plenty of women there as well in big4s and whatnot. Someone has to attract the clients.
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