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Krebs does not work in Cybersecurity, does not come from a position of knowledge or experience in Cybersecurity and his only skill relating to Cybersecurity is doxxing people.

I could understand if this was "Thinking of a Cybersecurity journalism career" but there are better people to learn from.

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I do incident response for a living and the general idea of his article was accurate. His message is that many candidates lack the technical capability to do the job but its easy to acquire those skills on your own using resources from the web if you are really interested in it.

He even added a disclaimer that he's not a technical expert.

Perhaps instead of going after the author you could go after his ideas? It seems like quite a well written essay imo

Shall I do that for everyone who does not work in the industry they are advising people on?

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