“Why do you work in security instead of something more lasting?”
I&#x27;ve been wondering why I worked in it for a different reason: overall lack of demand for real thing and apathy of users. Industry faces a constant, uphill battle that gets steeper every year due to the apathy. The intellectual challenge is great in terms of having to learn everything part of the stack down to EM effects of transistors. Then try to outsmart a world full of brains in a design. You get moments you feel proud of.<p>Overall, though, it looks like it might have been more satisfying if I stayed on the automatic programming track. Doing things like program&#x2F;hardware synthesis, static analysis, functional programming compilation, and so on. Have a steady stream of useful inventions plus more users happy to adopt them. Must be nice for <i>those</i> fields. ;)