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IT Security Girl of the Year

Today I am going to break with the spirit of this website. This entry is not about Programming Stuff as advertised in the title of my blog. Today I am going to complain about something which is only very casually related to Programming Stuff. In some way it is kind of similar to when CmdrTaco used the Slashdot front page to complain about Blizzard making him change his WoW name. It's my website and I post what I want. So if you came here expecting new Programming Stuff you can hit the Back button of your browser now.

Anyway, let's start. I woke up this morning and saw that someone I know will attend the French IT Security conference FRHACK. I began to browse the FRHACK website. I checked out the Events section. I came across something called Best IT Security Girl of the Year. For a split-second I was amused about this obvious little satirical reflection about the role of women in IT and especially IT Sec. I quickly scrolled around to find the IT Security Boy of the Year. There was no such award. It dawned on me that the IT Sec Girl of the Year award is actually a serious award and I started to feel sick.

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