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Lea Kissner

Lea Kissner

@leak.bsky.social

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Security, privacy, respect. Was the Twitter CISO until it was terrible. Now LinkedIn CISO. they/them

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Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · 21h

Oh yeah extremely agree, gotcha

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · 22h

Are you suggesting that FIPS mode makes you *more* secure? Because that has not been my experience.

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · 23h

Encryption without key rotation is just sparkling obfuscation

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · 2d

Not being a jerk is a shockingly underrated hiring strategy.

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 2d

look, one reason workplaces started making us all go to HR's "be polite to others" class is because you alienate people when you're a bigoted asshole, and that can lose you both talent and business www.ft.com/content/8e6d...

Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire’s comments about Islamism

Sumaiya Balbale left the venture firm after it decided not to discipline outspoken investor for posts about Zohran Mamdani

Reposted by Lea Kissner

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 10d

pleasures of the flesh fade, other people however much you love each other will sometimes let you down, the world is filled with sorrows. but from today until the last day of your life, wherever you are if you pay attention there is something new to learn. it's a great comfort.

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · 16d

Mine thought that kissing was "whapping your open mouth onto their face". Those gums are surprisingly hard

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · 25d

IIRC last year someone had like two hours before RH came in, which sounded really rough.

Last year one of my in-laws died on RH, but in another country so it was me and the kids and not sitting shiva and having to keep it together because I signed up to leyn.

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · Sep 22

I mean also free lunch in the office

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · Sep 22

Well, we are about to post some more open roles...

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · Sep 22

In these cases it's often real, it's just not helpful to me to shortcut the evaluation process. Like Kartik knows better than I do whether some additional scanner will give us coverage we don't have so I want him to give his opinion

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · Sep 22

I have to admit I ignore those. I have gotten a lot of "so-and-so on your team is talking to us about our product do you want to talk to us instead" and: a) no, I want you to talk to the person who will actually use it b) sometimes I do want to tell that person about ways your product doesn't work

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · Sep 22

Happily other folks introduce me to other folks who know interesting things. One of the nice things about my current job is that there are a bunch of people who have been around long enough to know where the bodies are buried and tell me. Both entertaining and then we can fix it. Love a fix.

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · Sep 22

The most common is that I have had people flat-out tell me that Someone Else said something was ok already so don't check. Please don't venue-shop.

One memorable time a team told Legal a feature worked differently than it did. Legal approved. I looked at it and noticed it was illegal. We talk.

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · Sep 22

The number of people who don't seem to realize that people in the same field, even in the same team, talk to each other is astonishing.

A security vendor invited me to a dinner with featured guest the "VP of IAM at LinkedIn". There is no such person. I'm so curious who; the vendor wouldn't answer.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Sep 22

This morning's spam from a scammer claiming to be Andy Weir, asking me to send a link to my own work and maybe he'll check it out (aka the opening salvo to sending the scammer money) and I'm all, look pal, I know Andy's read my stuff already, he said so WHEN WE WERE DOING A FUCKING EVENT TOGETHER

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · Sep 15

This legit almost gave me a heart attack when I saw it, please do

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · Sep 15

TIL that setting LESSSECURE makes you more secure

Man page for the less command, telling you that the flag LESSSECURE puts the less command in secure mode

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · Sep 8

How fast they dry depends a lot on where you are. I wouldn't want to try it in a Bangalore hotel room during the rainy season, but I love them in general

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · Sep 8

Many clothes can be washed in the sink! My clothes don't like being machine-dried but if yours do even having the hotel do the laundry is cheaper than shipping! There are shoes that squish flat! Wear layers!

Or my real secret sauce: don't care about fashion

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · Sep 8

Fully most of what I travel with for any trip is food, which I am not willing to risk the airline losing, but speaking as someone who packs light to the point where I did a 4-day trip with only a briefcase (pre-having-to-carry-all-of-my-food situation), this is the hard way to travel light!

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Sep 8

Personally, I'd rather just check a large bag for a long trip, than have to deal with randomly shipping stuff home and buying entirely new things at unpredictable intervals

(speaking as someone who spends a lot of time traveling internationally for extended periods myself)

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · Sep 3

A choice was made by me to take a better job, so it worked out ok

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · Sep 3

At one job someone decided to argue with me about whether my pronouns are grammatical.
a) yes they are I have citations
b) what an extremely odd fight to pick at work

In summary, there are so many ways not to be a jerk and not being a jerk is one of my life goals

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · Sep 2

Oh dude, no! (And thanks I'm advance for not making other people experience that joy)

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · Aug 29

I can't even tell you why I quit because they asserted attorney-client privilege and somehow that's not the most insane part

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · Aug 29

Uh ... sorry. I suspect I blew off that meeting and didn't mean to. It was wild.

Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · Aug 27

Yep. Everyone gets charged for access, so bring a few bucks.