Why Equifax’s error wasn’t hiring someone with a music degree

[schoen]

I learned yesterday that Mudge's degree is from the Berklee College of Music (a top school for music performance):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peiter_Zatko

So I think that's a great example of how someone with a music degree could potentially be one of the world's top infosec experts. (Also I believe Chris Palmer, who used to be my boss and currently works on the Google Chrome security team, has a degree in linguistics but would probably have been rather tempted by a music degree considering his huge passion for music performance.)

I think it's worth considering what really does make for good infosec qualifications, but it's easy to see that it's not necessarily a university degree. (Also considering how many leading infosec experts didn't finish university.)

[pixelperfect]

I haven't looked into the Equifax hack, but plenty of highly competent programmers have music degrees. Rich Hickey for example. (source: https://gist.github.com/harfangk/f98e627f7567b7b5741fe0c239b...)

[dang]

The only interesting thing about this non-issue is that people brought it up without realizing how they were embarrassing themselves. Talk about a middlebrow dismissal.