After China allegedly hacked the UK ministry of defense, it has come to light that it was not so much China’s hacking prowess as it was the UK isn’t paying people enough to care

His Majesty’s Treasury Head of Cyber Security salary: £57500

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lol, lmao
UK tryin to pretend it's a player in the modern tech world while paying people less than interns make in California
- The entire UK is a country sized Potemkin Village set up by the United States to let the terf islanders live out their remaining days in peace while the rest of the world kindly plays along.
  “You know back in my day the sun never set on our glorious empire”
  Oh wow gran that’s amazing. How would you like some mushy peas huh? That sounds good, right?
  
  What are you trying to kill me? Mushy peas are much too spicy. Now if you dip some bread into the pea wet, then that's a proper meal innit.
  
  why u gotta bring the mushy peas in to this
  
  to let the terf islanders live out their remaining days in peace while the rest of the world kindly plays along.
  Where's my peace motherfucker!?!
  
  You're right, but this applies to like 500 people who run Britain, 300 of which their families always have, and 200 of which pretend their families always did.
- I think you'd pull more even here in Colombia for a job like that
- It's less than ten years since the British goverment spent several years trying to ban encryption entirely until eventually enough poeple they trust told them they were fucking idiots and it would destroy the economy overnight.
  
  It would be funny if British colleges complied and stopped teaching about encryption and all the fresh government hires have no idea what any of it means
- Californian interns make nearly $72k?
  
  At big tech companies yes
  
  60-150k
  Median is probably 100k
  
  72k is like minimum wage in California lol.
- I think this is also what the average new grad makes in London in the private sector...
  Certainly half of what new grads are paid at the big players
Help I based my economy around generating wealth for shareholders but I also need things that don't generate wealth to get done.... Unsolvable problem
- Which of these will better protect my country:
  One plane that works sometimes
  Putting a competent person in charge of protecting the entire online monetary system
That's like $70k USD lmao, plus it's in one of the most expensive cities on earth. I would assume that they'd be paying a junior cyber security analyst more than that.
- You seem to be forgetting how low stress being the head of cyber security for the department that controls all of the money must be
  
  The salary factors in that you'll set up an Office Space system that vacuums up all the fractions of cents that get rounded off in every transaction.
Sometimes I mention security at work and my coworkers literally laugh. Luckily we're a utility so none of the customers can leave.
His Majesties...
Royals being unimaginably stupid yet again. That position was absolutely for some little lordling's career starter.
- Even CK players know you absolutely need to live good with your councilors if you want to wear the bling pointy hat for extended period lol
Yeah. Our salaries are fucked.
Up til recently (pre 12 years of Tories), salaries were a bit better, but mostly the cost of living was in line with the salaries, when you factor in all of the good public healthcare services and railways, even arts/culture.
Then they privatised all the railways and began making the NHS more and more private, while depressing wages of anything that wasn't to do with financial speculation and property.
In London that's all multiplied - finance is very rich, and your average non finance salary should conform to the set London Living Wage (which is higher than the rest of England). The London Living Wage is now however disproportionate to the cost of living. My rents gone up by 300 quid in 3 years, while my house and location have gotten worse and worse.
And now here we are. Pretty much everyone's feeling it. Anything that's not a fat moneymaker is shutting down, so the city has become more and more soulless, giving even less reason to live there other than to chase a bigger salary.
- Good but very soft summary of analysis by the Rowntree Foundation.
You can easily make over $200k a year as Head of Cybersecurity in most places.
No wayyyy, they're lying to drum up paranoia for the cold war?
Pay peanuts, enjoy watching the circus.
Not the Onion (UK edition, innit)
- The Babylon Bruv
Entry level pay from a state govt position is higher than that where I live.
For something that stressful, that’s not even enough pay to respond to an email, much less orchestrate policy or risk management or even manage a team.

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