Fine. I work on systems that make people safer.
Fine. I work on systems that make people safer.
I don’t feel it’s as fulfilling for me as it is lucrative. That being said I do see the negative effects of our product on the world around us- but try and keep focus on the positives
I'm retired from technical sales roles in a few different companies. I am disappointed that the tech I worked on wasn't fully adopted. I was there when PKI, X.509, S/MIME and more were released in their initial commercial forms. Unfortunately, not all of it was simple enough for the average person to understand or use, so many opportunities for safe computing were bypassed. Its laughable that we still have so much credit card theft and cyber fraud, when systems like Digital ID's and Chip on Card had been available more than 25 years ago. Few people know that the U.S. Post Office had built a pilot program in the late 90's to issue Digital ID's to citizens that could have solved many of the issues we struggle with today. Smaller countries like Malaysia did it, but in the U.S, politics stopped it from ever going live. At that same time, a number of Postal Organizations around the world had begun to adopt a Secure Digital Messaging infrastructure that also fizzled out from lack of support. I can't even count how many times the companies I worked for would release new tech that was abandoned in just a few short years. Rather than improve on our original ideas, tech companies just bought the next "big" thing.... We did a great job of selling it, but supporting it was a whole different story. Also, distractions from Corporate Board Members were common and highly disruptive to our best laid plans.