[attrition] Postal: Asshats: Joseph K. Black

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Joseph K. Black
Social Media Experiment Gone Horribly Wrong
Mon Feb 28 04:46:25 CST 2011

Given the inane amount of babble to come from Joseph K. Black via Facebook 
and Twitter in late January of 2011, we'll spare everyone a lot of the 
gory details and just post a few short examples of why Black will not only 
never obtain his dream job of National Cybersecurity Advisor, but will 
likely end up working the counter at a Runza near you some time in the 
near future, provided he doesn't end up in prison.

Simply put, Black has designs on being appointed "National Cybersecurity 
Advisor" by the Obama administration. While that in itself may be an 
admirable goal, Black seems to think that self-promotion, being top 10 on 
search results and outlandish claims through social media outlets will 
help his cause more than, say, actual experience and contributions to the 
security industry ("cyber" or otherwise). Moving into February, his big 
thing became some fictional "megacommunity" ("Google it!" he says) with 
imaginary ties to every government agency, big service provider and 
anything else that he fancies.

With his inability to use Twitter and Facebook correctly, posting 
everything three or four times, he betrays the notion that he is an expert 
at anything. Because really, Twitter is hard to figure out. According to 
Black, he is the Ben Roethlisberger of Cybersecurity, the Governor of 
Cyberspace, the King of Cyberspace, the John Wayne of Cyberspace, the 
Michael Jordan of Cybersecurity, the Smokey the Bear of Cybersecurity, the 
Captain of the Cool Kids and a Cybersecurity ROCKSTAR! We could cite 
dozens of examples of his general idiocy here, but a short few should 
paint a clear picture of the level of e-tard we're dealing with:

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