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Written by Lesley Carhart :unverified: on 2025-01-30 at 02:59

IDK man, but this DEI hire is teaching a 6 day class on industrial cybersecurity while also keeping up with a DFIR job while also selling a house and doing two visa applications alone while all this shit waves is going on. And even cleaned the gutters. But it’s probably because I have t**s.

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Written by Lesley Carhart :unverified: on 2025-01-30 at 14:33

This shit hurts extra because I had zero legs up in just about anything I have achieved in my career or hobbies, and doing it all before substantial DEI initiatives made it so a lot of people in authority told me to fuck off no matter how hard I worked. It took me years to break into professional cybersecurity. Nobody would mentor me. Professional groups made it purposefully uncomfortable to join. My degree program was 95% men. I had to room with another career in Air Force training. I smiled and shut up through rape jokes and studied alone.

I’ve dedicated so much of my life to making sure nobody else hit those same real road blocks in mentoring and finding jobs, but almost all the progress we have made in my lifetime in the US is just gone, overnight.

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Written by Eddie. on 2025-01-30 at 14:36

@hacks4pancakes

It's only gone if we let it go. We shouldn't push the burden onto the government, we should be doing it ourselves. The mentoring, keeping workplaces professional, et al.

Now I have a bias. I work for a very diverse company, but no one is here with any DEI shadow. Everyone is here on merit. So I view the world differently, because I can see what's possible. And we're not letting it go.

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Written by Lesley Carhart :unverified: on 2025-01-30 at 14:41

@infoseclogger you are naive if you think the diverse people in your org who you say are there purely on merit got there without facing educational, social, and professional challenges long before they got to your door - or that forcibly removing those challenges didn’t help some of them. Your individual org being equal doesn’t fix the pipeline.

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Written by Eddie. on 2025-01-30 at 14:45

@hacks4pancakes

I can only control what I can control. I know what some have overcome, they have shared. My point is that progress doesn't disappear in a day, and more people are in positions to make sure that opportunity doesn't evaporate.

I have gone through the same issues myself. I choose to help where I can. Not be overwhelmed and give up.

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