I have spent a shit ton of time in a classroom, and I will readily admit that having a college degree (or several) is not a guarantee of skills or knowledge that are useful to an organization. I will also note that some of the best IT and InfoSec people I have had the privilege of working with did not graduate fro college.

But the idea that Marc Benioff and by extension Salesforce is going to usher in the replacement for HR departments depending on the virtue signaling of degrees in hiring is somewhat comical. I have seen HR and managers at Salesforce get hung up of items like degrees on many occasions. They also get stuck in loops of hiring for a particular experience or association, for instance they spent a great deal of time and money hiring staff away from Microsoft.

I suspected that the surge in Microsoft hires was related to some squabble Marc had with Microsoft, but in the process they hired several people that they would have been far better without, littering groups like the security team with dead weight.

While Marc seems to think that going to college only managed to please his parents, I doubt that he would have had the opportunity to work at Oracle in the role that he did were it not for the feather in his cap that was college. As Oracle was not known for taking chances on people in key roles who had not successfully jumped through some significant virtue signaling process. Without his time at Oracle he would not have been in a position to found Salesforce.

I look forward to seeing Marc or others like him finding ways to identify talent that is more about their actual skill than it is about some strange collections of stickers and feathers, but it will not happen soon.

Over the years I have been to several of his presentations at security conferences. He had a big impact on the industry and I throughly looked forward to hearing what he had to say.

I am sad to hear that he has passed.

Arrange for delivery by artillery instead of trucks and the spherical shape should not be a problem.

May require some training for consumers to handle these “deliveries”

For years these companies have treated their users as products, it only makes sense to me that they should pay taxes on the "sale" of these products as other companies do on the sale of their products.

If they would have had enough votes to pass such a law, they may have ended up facing a situation where Google and Apple would have opted not to offer their App Stores in North Dakota.

Actual currency has tons of uses unlike the cryptocurrency toys.

Although, I would like to see you arrange a payment to a ransomware threat actor with a sack of cash.

I am sure the bitcoin boosters will be happy that there is another market that will take bitcoin other than that one car seller, drug dealers, and ransomware threat actors.

Stepping in on a bubble is the easy part, but since there is no actual worth or value to measure against stepping out is the tough part.

The idea that a âoebitcoinâ is worth $50,000 is not fundamentally different than it being worth $250,000 or $10 million. All of these make just as much sense as $2.50.

Obviously each bitcoin should be worth 4 or 5 times the cumulative value of US GDP. Of course we need to give the market a reasonable time to come to this realization.

So letâ(TM)s call the target 100 Trillion USD per btc on Memorial Day.

One of the biggest uses for cryptocurrencies is to pay ransom for ransomware and data extortion attacks.

Two activities that not going to be on many peopleâ(TM)s legalization shortlist.

Solarwinds is dead tech, it has clearly been on a declining path for sometime now.

The business model for most software is that you do not really work that hard on security on the way up because it will increase cost and slow you down. Once you near the top you sell it off to some investment firm and let them try to milk the remaining money out of it, and your DEFINITELY do not want to spend money on security now, because it messes up your spreadsheet and ruins your chance at a profit.

The NSA is more concerned about find ways to attack than they are in helping secure, hence as they are structured now, they will not be our saviors.

The attack that got in and allowed the hacker to sign certificates as Adobe? That seemed to expose a big user base.

For sophistication Stuxnet seems a bit higher up the scale than guessing/stealing a password that should have not been allowed for a account used to track a junior high students account at the schoolâ(TM)s cafeteria.

I look forward to the wide scale use of Bitcoin in jewelry so that I have a opportunity to mock the wearers in person.

Considering that the majority of Bitcoin mining being done is in China using dirty coal as fuel the use of solar elsewhere is not relevant.

Is this intended to foreshadow blood glucose monitoring for soon to be released Fitbits or is this a response to the rumors that this feature may be in the next generation of Apple Watches?