Very sad to hear the passing of Tom Magliozzi.
I think in a lot of ways, what we need to do in infosec is what Click and Clack the Tappet brothers did so well for so long Car Talk, bring a light to a complicated set of issues where people did not know the details btu did understand the importance of their car. They may not what questions to ask the dealer or mechanic, but they understood the decision set, just not the tradeoffs.
There are so many great moments, this Andy Letter episode hits pretty close to home in the infosec industry:
"Tom: Do two people who don't know what they are talking about, know more or less than one person who doesn't know what he's talking about?
Ray: Let me think about this a minute. What's your opinion?
Tom (quoting listener letter): I believe you have definitively answered this query and put the debate to rest in your recent conversation regarding electric brakes on a cattle carrier. Remember that call?
Ray: Oh I do
Tom (quoting letter): Amazingly enough, you prove that even in a case where one person might know nothing about a subject, it is possible to know even less.
Ray: well I think we prefaced our answer with - we knew nothing
Tom: And he says that - one person will only go out so far on a limb
Ray: ...unless he has someone to egg him on...
Tom: ...with his construction of deeply hypothetical structures, and will often end with a shrug or raising of hands to indicate the dismissability of his particular take on the subject. With two people, the intricacies, the gives and takes, there wherefores and why nots can become a veritable pas-de-deux of breathtaking speculation interwoven in such a way that apologies or gestures of doubt are rendered unnecessary"
RIP.
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