You picked a uniquely bad person to use an example of the excesses of the security industry. It's too bad, because I probably could have agreed with most of your issues, but now I think you're a crank.
I opted out of software security ~10+ years ago too (I went from software vulnerability research to streaming media and multicast and then ISP operations software and then marketing). Coincidentally, that was about the same time Nate stopped being one of the world's better software vulnerability researchers and moved headlong into cryptography and hardware. He's a friend and I don't speak for him, but I'm guessing his move was made for similar reasons as yours.
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You picked a uniquely bad person to use an example of the excesses of the security industry. It's too bad, because I probably could have agreed with most of your issues, but now I think you're a crank.
I opted out of software security ~10+ years ago too (I went from software vulnerability research to streaming media and multicast and then ISP operations software and then marketing). Coincidentally, that was about the same time Nate stopped being one of the world's better software vulnerability researchers and moved headlong into cryptography and hardware. He's a friend and I don't speak for him, but I'm guessing his move was made for similar reasons as yours.