[_notathrowaway]

That's a very prejudiced and uncharitable way of looking at a fellow hacker. Have you got evidence to back your views?

[some_furry]

Despite what the other commentators on this thread seem to want to believe without evidence, I'm not at all attracted to children, and I'm offended that someone would drop such a gross accusation in a HN thread.

[Pigalowda]

Be offended and then clarify - why are so many furries in the infosec field? Do you have a speculative answer?

By the way a person using a dark market to get drugs and then meeting up with other consenting adults to “cosplay” as animals may very well be an illegal and potentially humiliating event for a person. Maybe just growing up with the subculture created an early need in a person to hide/obfuscate and therefore motivates entry into infosec. I don’t know - that’s why I’m speculating. Going straight to the child angle is too narrow/myopic.

[whalesalad]

Your above response was very judgmental and not kind. My goal with the question was not to shame the lifestyle, and I don’t think that type of discussion is relevant here.

[TakeBlaster16]

I understand wanting to protect real-life children, but I'll never understand why we need to protect drawings of fictional bears