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RE: Thoughts on CyberSecurity, Blockchain and AntiAbuse
Personally I wouldn't spread yourself too thinly. Your expertise is in system- level security. Chasing spammers, abusers and bad actors requires less specialist knowledge.
You should put your expertise to its best use in my opinion for the betterment of the blockchain.
The story of my life, @nathen007. 😉
Currently, my job requires me to have and develop an incredibly broad range of skills which is both good and bad. It's stressful and I would be relieved to be able to specialize. My career has had an emphasis on system side (a bit of networking in there too) but my aspiration is to develop.
It has actually been my desire to code when I joined the military but I somehow ended up on the sysadmin / netadmin side of the house due to my desired MOS being phased out. My recruiter wasn't 100% forthcoming but I am a firm believer that things happen for a reason. Perhaps, those experiences can helpful as a learn the ropes to develop so to speak.
As for chasing spammers and such, that would be a tough one for me to break. It's like teaching a dog not to chase a squirrel. You're right, though. I probably ought to limit the amount of time I spend manually locating abuse and focus perhaps on developing better tools to assist others.
@steemflagrewards is a good start but I also would like to complete the vision of @flagawhale (project for community members to address whale abuse without fear of reprisal using a dedicated flagging account with aggregated SP) before maybe turning things over to the community to focus on other areas.
That's why you have dummies like me who carry out those grunt work.
Not going to fool me, Leonis. We already know you have talent. Also, we know the work of the grunt is very important. Maybe in the future we can work on having more bots working in the trenches instead.
And that's how SKYNET begins. :P