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Re:Equifax CEO hired a music major as the company’s chief se... by jpk on Friday September 15, 2017 @04:14PM (#15260399)
> "no infosec people have degree in CS"

You stretched that tweet pretty far. It's clearly nothing more than an anecdotal counterexample. I'm not sure how your paraphrasing quote ended up becoming such a sweeping generalization.

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Re:Equifax CEO hired a music major as the company’s chief se... by kinkrtyavimoodh on Friday September 15, 2017 @04:19PM (#15260449)
OP knows it's an anecdote. They are questioning the value of an anecdote from someone in a small company when the anecdote is about claiming to know enough people belonging to a certain category.
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Re:Equifax CEO hired a music major as the company’s chief se... by sp332 on Friday September 15, 2017 @05:04PM (#15260769)
But github is very popular in the tech community. You'd think she would have met some infosec people with relevant degrees if they were common.
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