I notice that I am extremely surprised by your internship training. Its existence, its lessons and the impact it had on you (not you specifically, just a person who didn’t come in with that mindset) are all things I don’t think I would have predicted. I would be thrilled if you would write as much as you can bring yourself to about this, braindump format is fine, into a top level post!
It’s also possible I’m someone “amenable” to this mindset and that was just the “on switch”. DSP, by the way.
But yeah I could see a post on… cryptanalysis, and finding and minimizing attack surfaces, without necessarily having an attack in mind, and a hindsight-view story of what first caused me to think in that way.
I’d be interested to know how many people flunked out of that internship because they couldn’t pick it up, and to what extent people were pre-selected for the internship based on some estimate of their ability to pick it up.
Gonna guess zero. Much less costly to leave ’em in for 12 weeks for goodwill than to try to remove people in that timeframe.
pre-selected for
Good point. Probably at least some of this. You need referrals, and I was definitely not the smartest of the people in my reference class available to refer, though maybe 3rd, and someone looking at me versus the one I know definitely had more-raw-IQ should definitely have guessed that I was more likely to pick up that particular thing.
I notice that I am extremely surprised by your internship training. Its existence, its lessons and the impact it had on you (not you specifically, just a person who didn’t come in with that mindset) are all things I don’t think I would have predicted. I would be thrilled if you would write as much as you can bring yourself to about this, braindump format is fine, into a top level post!
It’s also possible I’m someone “amenable” to this mindset and that was just the “on switch”. DSP, by the way.
But yeah I could see a post on… cryptanalysis, and finding and minimizing attack surfaces, without necessarily having an attack in mind, and a hindsight-view story of what first caused me to think in that way.
I’d be interested to know how many people flunked out of that internship because they couldn’t pick it up, and to what extent people were pre-selected for the internship based on some estimate of their ability to pick it up.
Gonna guess zero. Much less costly to leave ’em in for 12 weeks for goodwill than to try to remove people in that timeframe.
Good point. Probably at least some of this. You need referrals, and I was definitely not the smartest of the people in my reference class available to refer, though maybe 3rd, and someone looking at me versus the one I know definitely had more-raw-IQ should definitely have guessed that I was more likely to pick up that particular thing.