Over the years, I’ve been attacked and criticized many times over my views on security. At times, it’s been completely justified, while other times, it stems from not knowing the things that I know.
Thus, spurred on by events that are ultimately unimportant, for the first time publicly, I’ve decided to tell the entire story of how I got into security, how I ended up at an antivirus company, and how and why my views have changed. This is the story of someone who went from a rabid “Macs don’t get viruses” fanboy to a professional malware researcher, and why exactly such a strange turn of events occurred. With a smattering of stories about the history of Mac malware thrown in. 🙂
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