JacobAsmuth
an hour ago
Why does their header image feature multiple furries, one at each station? One making a feature request, another presumably approving a pull request, and a third ostensibly submitting an app?
Is the Flipper Zero community tightly intertwined with the furry community? Is this a connection I've missed?
dimbletimbers
44 minutes ago
It’s definitely a meme if nothing else that the cybersecurity community has a distribution of furries that would not reflect the general population’s.
nicce
31 minutes ago
There is even a saying that furries run the internet.
rebolek
38 minutes ago
Is there some study to explain why? Do they feel more safer pretending to be human sized...furry animal?
kstrauser
22 minutes ago
My hypothesis, based purely on personal experience and what friends have told me. I am not a furry.
I feel like infosec was one of the earliest "no one cares who you are if you have skills" user groups. Online, you were just a handle. Man, woman, both, neither, no one knew until if/when you met up IRL. Until then, all you had was your reputation. I think that led to people having a pretty good idea about the attitudes of people they were talking to online, staying away from people who were going to be jerks about identity or pastimes, and a lot of conversations like "General Mayhem is weird, but he's our weird, so no one mentions that fox tail he wears everywhere."
Over time, that was a positive feedback loop: people who weren't cookiecutter felt safer around infosec folks than most other crowds. => That increased the "weird density" of infosec meetups. => People who don't like being unaround uncommon appearance or behavior stayed away from infosec meetups. => Those meets became safer for uncommon folks. => Repeat.
I don't know if that's right, but again, that's what friends have expressed to me before. It seems plausible.
Note: When I say weird, I mean it affectionately. I've never met anyone in infosec who didn't have some quirk not far below the surface. Frankly, I love that. And because of that, and the virtuous cycle I described, I've never had one single person in infosec confess to me that they weren't OK with gay or trans or furries or other type of behavior/identity/etc. I'm a straight white middle class dude, and unfortunately I have had people confess such things to me in other circles, mistakenly assuming that since I was in their demographic, I'd agree with them or at least be OK with it.
mplewis
10 minutes ago
Yep! Furries are represented strongly in cybersecurity.
dude250711
13 minutes ago
> Is the Flipper Zero community tightly intertwined with the furry community?
That is my conclusion. They are raising much-needed awareness about that underrepresented group.
iririririr
25 minutes ago
what does it matter to you? honest question. would that impact your technical assessment somehow? do you just want in on some probable joke?
hosel
18 minutes ago
Not OP, but I think furries are weird. You can do whatever you want, but I’ve never met a furry I liked. They also insert their weird fetish into everything they touch.