PG - +10 Knowledge: Sharing What You Learn For The Benefit of the Everyman - Ashley Miller

okay great everyone we're going to continue with our next speaker Ashley Miller who's uh going to be speaking on 10 plus knowledge sharing what you learn for the benefit of every

man all right I'm in the habit of saying good morning but uh good afternoon everyone this is 10 plus knowledge sharing what you learn for the benefit of the Everyman and I am Ashley Miller so if you're here for another talk I'm sorry you'll have to listen to me and let's get started there we go so a little bit about me before we get started I am a school librarian and computer lab Aid I mostly work with 5-year-olds so I have a lot of experience explaining things I'm also a caregiver for uh elderly relatives so my experience goes from 5year olds to 70 year olds and everything in between I like tea sunsets and front porch swings

I I do really well Playing Cards Against Humanity and a little fun fact I developed an interest in locks to cope with fear and that's actually how I relax I I sit and I pick locks so that's a little bit about

me so our agenda for today uh first off can events like bides help in other areas of your life what if you're a noob and all of this is just brand new to you what if you don't know know anyone and where do you go from here and these are some questions I'd like to address during this talk so starting off with can events like bides help in other areas of my life of course they can what you learn is not industry specific and that is uh an excellent thing about this for example with social engineering I learn a lot just by observing contest and listening to other other people's talks and one thing I

came away with was that you can interview better by asking questions in my uh area in education if I interview with a different School even if it's in my own School District they might ask me questions about specific policies uh discipline procedures and I may not know that answer I I as I said I'm used to dealing with 5-year-olds I'm not sure how another school would deal with uh discipline areas with middle school students so I can turn the question around and not only learn what the answer is but uh get information from get them to tell me the answer by changing it and asking the question back to them uh using the example of

discipline procedures I may tell them this is how I handle a discipline procedure at my work site however I understand you have a different age group how would you address that problem so it gets them to answer the question for me and it tells them that even though I don't know an answer I am perfectly willing to ask someone what the right what the correct procedure is for that location so by asking questions I get someone else to answer the question for me when it comes to confidential information I'm hyper Vigilant about what I post online and what I share with other people so I've learned not to put stickers on my car that show where I

come from and uh who I work for I certainly don't want other parents in my community to come up and try to get information from me about their child or another child for one I can't tell them about uh children at my workplace and number two I I really don't want them to bother me while I'm trying to do my grocery shopping uh when it comes to social media um online being online and presenting myself in person to other people I'm usually mindful of what I say and how much information I give out I'm very selective I will tell you I'm from this location or this General location in my state but I'm not going to tell

you specifically which town unless I know you that well I'm not going to give you information about when I go on vacation because I don't want to have to worry about my home when I'm gone and I get on to people online uh or I get on to people who are online and saying hey we're going to Disneyland for a week it's like great you just told me when you're gone so if I was someone who is inclined to rob you I could and not that I'm That Kind of a person but you just told me and when it comes to coding uh when you learn programming language is one thing I've noticed that kind of

translates into your everyday life is you tend to be a little more efficient and direct with your L with the language that you do use if I speak to a coworker about a problem or I want to get information information from my friend about what we're doing next week I'm going to try to be as direct as I can't as direct as I can and uh ask them the the questions or lead them into a conversation so I can get what I want right now it sounds a little selfish but it an it certainly uh answers my questions speaking of questions there are no bad questions especially when you're here today or this week if you go to

Defcon find someone that has a similar interest or if you run into someone if you're standing in line make use of that time and start asking questions ask them what kind of industry they're in uh let them tell you personal stories about what they've encountered in their daily lives and if you want to learn something in specific don't remain in ignorance just straight up ask them if you don't know what a term means if they use a terminology that you are unaware unfamiliar with or you're just not clear on the definition ask them what it means not only does it help you to learn uh uh help you be a little more clear about what's being conveyed to you but it also

helps the person who is mentoring you or speaking to you know your level of understanding and be able to adjust the conversation to reflect that so really there are no bad questions just ask and also when you go back home involve everyone because your friends your family the people around you at work all have unmet needs that you just might be able to fulfill one example is that at work every year we have a meeting and my boss will ask oh does anyone notice anything we need to change for our safety procedures now now if I just came back from from B sides and I picked up on something in a social engineering talk that I thought might be relevant in some

way to my workplace I'm going to let her know hey I just learned about this subject and I noticed that we're really vulnerable in this one area or when it comes to physical security you know if we've made this quick little change it might be helpful to us in the end and it might benefit us uh in terms of keeping our students and our information safe and uh I don't want to take credit for it but there are some changes in the past year that I've noticed that have had connections to things that I've mentioned in the past it's very nice to see when your bosses and when your co-workers say hey I understand that uh

you just learned about this you want to chat about it and and takes your actually takes your ideas and puts some of them into practice they really take it into consideration when it comes to my friends and family again if they're going on vacation I try to tell them not to announce it to their world uh in our small town we have a lot of break-ins I really don't want to see my friend's houses broken into just because they said they were going to be out of state um and in terms of my my uh my family I'm there to offer any help I can in terms of everything from picking out new locks for their house uh finding

some way asking questions to people that are trying to sell security systems to them if I hear of a scam that's going on especially if it's targeting the elderly I'm going to tell my elderly relatives so they are aware of what's going on in the world around them because if I don't tell them no one else is going to tell them I I happen to know that and even if someone already knows hey there's people calling saying they're from the IRS I don't know if if my uncle or my aunt has been told I'm going to tell them anyway way because they need to be aware that someone could be targeting [Music] them there when it comes to

recommendations a lot of my recommendations have uh revolved around going out there and just further educating yourself finding inexpensive uh ways to gain knowledge I don't know about a lot of you but I don't have a lot of money to spent on on on going back to college and taking expensive classes so I'm going to go to places like KH Academy and code Academy online which both offer free services and allow me to continue my education be it just in general programming or uh uh specific programming languages I visit hacker spaces which they usually have uh workshops in fact one of our our local maker spaces offers workshops uh monthly and classes new classes starting up every

week I've also been known to take a few college classes our local community college is wonderful their tuition isn't horrible and isn't going to cost me an arm and a leg to learn something new another great way to learn something is to read books and articles personally for me I benefit from books that just get straight to the point and kind of break things down so you will see four dummies books on my bookshelves that's that's I found that it works for me and I'm going to go with it and especially this week interact with others uh via events social media through talking with them one-on-one you're going to gain a lot of knowledge that is not found in books just by

hearing their personal experiences so at this point I I know it's kind of short but any

questions uh if there are no questions then I'm definitely going to uh say thank you very much for being here for this talk if you want to follow me on Twitter I'm at vintage sister and if you need to get a hold of me for any reason that is probably the best way to find me thank [Applause] you