Apple's Hacker Princess dumps fruity firm for Elon Musk's Tesla Apple's "Hacker Princess" has left Cupertino for a new job at Tesla Motors. Kristin Paget, formerly chief hacker for reverse engineering firm H4RDW4RE, is best known for her Defcon research on a variety of GSM mobile network hacks, cooking up a passport RFID cloner and her work with a team of hackers on the security of Windows …
"It's almost like it is being used as some sort of explanation as to why she is so good with technology. Generally it is fairly unusual for girls to be into hardware hacking, but that's down to society and gender stereotyping more than anything."
If you click the link to her blog and read it, you'd find out that she says that her estrogen therapy has had a very profound effect on her mind.
AC: "Generally it is fairly unusual for girls to be into hardware hacking, but that's down to society and gender stereotyping more than anything."
Yes and the exact mechanics of society and stereotyping is down to... well, here your political correct statement leaves the realm of certainties and enters various social and biological theorizing and uncertain experimenting on the topic. In the mean while we can just retain as fairly common observational fact the first half of your statement that it's: "fairly unusual for girls to be into hardware hacking". Therefore the information on her being transsexual is mildly relevant.
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Not a walk in the park, but if a person being covered by a 'new role at a new company' article had gone through serious medical treatment for, say, bipolar, do you need to mention 'oh, by the way, he was sectioned once and now takes a range of mood-stabilising drugs'? This is NOT the most interesting thing about them.
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I fully agree, but I guess when you have someone who blogs to the world about a supposedly intimate/personal experience, they really don't want it to be a personal thing.
It's strange how some individuals today declare that they wish to be treated equally as everyone else....yet take great strides in defining/advertising their differences to everyone who will listen/read.
Personally, I couldn't care less about this person's sex or sexual preference. I'm simply not attracted to her or interested in dating her. Now her skills and knowledge as a programer are interesting, especially now that she works at Tesla.
Why is sex/sexual preference like a badge to be worn on one's sleeve these days? It has zero to do with their job or ability and therefore irrelevant IMO.
~Best wishes
"I fully agree, but I guess when you have someone who blogs to the world about a supposedly intimate/personal experience, they really don't want it to be a personal thing."
Ever considered that *you* might not be the intended audience? Perhaps it's for those thinking of following in her footsteps?
Hilarious: '...the state of Idaho, where a US district court ruled that anyone calling themselves a "hacker" forfeits their Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and property seizures.'
...Which in and of itself is an unconstitutional judgement. #MyStupidGovernment at work.
'The Internet Of Things' is exactly where the best hackers should be working at this very minute. It has, as predicted, turned out to be an exponentially growing swarm of bots with any deliberately unprotected device being questioned of its loyalty. In particular, imagine the fun of a networked car racing and crashing game with REAL CARS; An IRL Carmageddon. Good hire Tesla.
She'll fit in perfectly in Elon's fantasy world. Just don't tell the public about security issues, the battery fires, lack of recharging stations, 30% drop in mileage in cold weather, even more losses with the electric heater turned on. What consumers and the public don't know won't hurt them...at least not until they spend their money and learn some hard lessons of life.
Yeah, it seems the Norwegians hate the Tesla.
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