Jackie McGuire

@jackiesinsecurity.bsky.social

I drink coffee and I know things | Data Scientist | Co-Host @ Security Weekly | Advisor and Mentor | Writer | Public Speaker | Standup and Improv Wannabe | Neurodiversity Champion | Recovered Economist and Finance Nerd | THOT Leader

We've all been there... an LLM gives us a VERY confident answer and then we find out it waswrong Why don't LLMs have an "I don't know" function? There are many different facets to this answer, from the way they're trained, to the way we interact with them, to the nature of the internet itself.

Sharing a piece I published today about surviving in a post-privacy world. We have virtually no control over our data and need to move forward under the assumption of compromise, meaning we need a better way to handle biometrics. Check out my piece here thecuberesearch.com/rsac-2025-su...

RSAC 2025 - Surviving a Post-Privacy World - theCUBE Research

For most people who exist on the internet or in modern society, our PII, biometric information, contact information, and passwords have all been leaked in some fashion. How do we survive in a…

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"MY PRINGLESSSSSSESSSSSS!!!!" I hiss at absolutely no one while I, a professional, eat them and tuna from a can with my fingers for lunch. As I tell students frequently... being grown up is a myth. Most of us barely have it together.

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Theoretically speaking, if you put several sleeves of expired bagels in your neighbor's garbage can on the curb at 6 a.m. would it be weirder to not tell them and take the chance they see them before the truck gets here... or txt them "I put my bagels in your trash can" first thing in the morning?

The life I live today is so far above and beyond what I wished for as a kid, sometimes it's hard to wrap my head around it. I have worked really hard for a very long time, pushed through every setback, and I'm so proud of myself. Dream big, work hard, fall down and get up, repeat ❤️

Welp, I'm just as bad at guitar on Fortnite Festival as I was in Rock Band and Guitar Hero, nice to know somethings don't change 😂 I really hope they release the drum controller before long, because being mediocre isn't my favorite.

I'm going to need a lot more internet friends here if I'm going to completely disconnect from the #zuckerverse so here's a list of things I like talking about for the algorithm [cybersecurity, security, data privacy, neurodiversity, music, improv, standup, social equity, dogs, coffee, pho, ramen]

I've found myself discussing Taiwan almost daily lately. From its critical importance to the entire tech ecosystem, to its geopolitical importance in the standoff between the PRC and the West, at some point in the next few years I see a conflict between China and Taiwan reshaping the world (Cont)

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LinkedIn Influencers be like: I experienced a definitely real, not hypothetical scenario with a definitely not made-up customer. I saved the day and then everyone stood up and clapped. Here's a blog post I wrote about saving the day that just happens to be the perfect scenario. Its definitely true.