Why Do We…

Seem to focus on technical or artistic jobs. It seems to me that we as a community have a higher percentage of creative jobs, that we seem to be in engineering, science, computers and also into the arts more than the general population.

The latest creative trans-person is…

Apple Hires Hacker Who Helped Save Windows From Security Hell
Wired News
By Robert McMillan
12.05.12

Apple has hired a noted computer security researcher who helped Microsoft lock down its Windows operating system.

Kristin Paget — formerly known as Chris Paget — now works on Apple’s security team. Just over five years ago, she was part of a small team of elite hackers brought in by Microsoft to lock down Windows Vista.

Criminals have long preferred to focus their attacks on Microsoft’s operating system — still the world’s most popular — but lately, there have been signs that they’re eying Apple’s Mac OS X too. And Apple, slowly, has been trying to make inroads into the security community. This summer, an Apple engineer spoke at the Black Hat security conference for the first time.

Reached via e-mail, Paget confirmed that she is now an Apple employee, but referred all questions to Apple’s public relations group. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment on Paget.

Paget’s work at Microsoft had been similarly secretive. She’d been forbidden from speaking about it for five years after her work there ended.

But in 2011, the NDA expired, and she spilled the beans on her Vista hacking at the Black Hat Las Vegas conference. In short: Microsoft’s security team had expected Vista to be pretty clean when Paget got her hands on it, but they were wrong.

I know of so many trans-engineers and scientist that I lost track, the same is true with trans-artist and musicians, just look at the latest trans-person to come out, Lana Wachowski the director of the Matrix movies. I don’t not know why we seem more creative, is it in our brains or the fact that we are driven to prove to ourselves we are not like the stereotypical trans-person.