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InfoSec Taylor Swift
About
InfoSec Taylor Swift (@SwiftOnSecurity) is a novelty Twitter account that offers humorous commentaries and advice on information security and cyber warfare in the voice of the American pop star Taylor Swift.
Origin
@SwiftOnSecurity tweeted for the first time on April 9th, 2014, about The HeartBleed Bug.
Seriously, everybody, you need to examine all your machines for OpenSSL and get it patched. #HeartBleed is extremely serious.
— InfoSec Taylor Swift (@SwiftOnSecurity) April 10, 2014Spread
@SwiftonSecurity garnered followers early organically, and in August 2014 began to be retweeted by other popular Twitter accounts, including the well-known author William Gibson.
Early popular tweets included photographs of the pop star performing on stage with notable cyber-security aphorisms photoshopped on to them; these are now mostly propagated on the user's Tumblr[1], while @SwiftOnSecurity focuses on text-only jokes and information. Many of @SwiftOnSecurity's most popular tweets, including the two below, are about Linux and its users.
What if Linus Torvalds is just angry because he's had to use Linux for 20 years
— InfoSec Taylor Swift (@SwiftOnSecurity) January 19, 2015It took the acquisition of Android, years of work and hundreds of millions of dollars, but Google finally brought malware to Linux.
— InfoSec Taylor Swift (@SwiftOnSecurity) August 13, 2014
On September 1st, the Tumblr blog SwiftOnSecurity[1] was launched as an accompaniment to the Twitter account. In the following months, in the wake of the Fappening/Celebgate, @SwiftOnSecurity was written about by several notable publications including Grantland[2], Boing Boing[3] and The Vine.[4]
@SwiftOnSecurity has been lauded by cyber security professionals for its "real, accurate, and helpful"[5] information and mainstream presentation.[6]
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External References
[1] Tumblr – Swift On Security
[2] Grantland – Taylor Swift’s Timely Technoparanoia
[3] BoingBoing – Infosec Taylor Swift's cyber-philosophical musings
[4] The Vine – New Faves: Taylor Swift is an expert on internet security
[5] Security Intelligence – What Does Taylor Swift Know About Data Security?
[6] SpiceWorks – Is Taylor Swift the best InfoSec voice on twitter?
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