I've grown quite tired of the non-technical information privacy and security scene. It's a churn of politically and financially motivated misinformation. Prominent/respected community members are often the ones spreading misinformation and promoting scams without accountability.
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It's exhausting dealing with fallout from misinformation confusing users and misleading them into making bad decisions. The endless attacks on projects doing useful work, unequivocal support for charlatans and lack of interest in truly making things better is very demotivating.
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I've been focusing on other projects lately due to the consistent lack of support and the endless daily attacks on the work that myself and others are trying to do. I wake up every day with a bunch of notifications / messages caused by the endless cycle of attacks/misinformation.
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I don't feel comfortable going to events like DEFCON due to the involvement of certain malicious people supported by the community. I certainly won't attend another Linux Security Summit. It would take a lot of effort for me to go to an event like this even before the hostility.
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I'm less likely to go to LSS than any other security-related conference despite it being very relevant to my interests and work. I have serious issues with a lot of the people involved. They've been thoroughly dishonest, manipulative, behaved maliciously and inflicted harm on me.