About
InfoSec Taylor Swift (@SwiftOnSecurity) is a novelty Twitter account (with Tumblr[1] accompaniment), comically posing as pop-star Taylor Swift, and claiming to “educate her fans” about cyber security and cyber warfare.
Origin
@SwiftOnSecurity tweeted for the first time on April 9th, 2014, about The HeartBleed Bug.
Seriously, everybody, you need to examine all your machines for OpenSSL and get it patched. #HeartBleed is extremely serious.
— InfoSec Taylor Swift (@SwiftOnSecurity) April 10, 2014Spread
@SwiftonSecurity garnered followers early organically, and in August 2014 began to be retweeted by other popular Twitter accounts, including the well-known author William Gibson. Early popular tweets included photographs of the pop star performing on stage with notable cyber-security aphorisms photoshopped on to them.
It took the acquisition of Android, years of work and hundreds of millions of dollars, but Google finally brought malware to Linux.
— InfoSec Taylor Swift (@SwiftOnSecurity) August 13, 2014It took the acquisition of Android, years of work and hundreds of millions of dollars, but Google finally brought malware to Linux.
— InfoSec Taylor Swift (@SwiftOnSecurity) August 13, 2014
In September and October of 2014, following the Fappening/Celebgate, @SwiftOnSecurity was written about by several notable publications including Grantland[2], Boing Boing[3], and The Vine[4] wrote about @SwiftOnSecurity, adding to its following.
@SwiftOnSecurity has been lauded by cyber security professionals for its “real, accurate, and helpful”[5] information and mainstream presentation.[6]
Notable Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1]Tumblr – Swift On Security
[2]Grantland – Taylor Swift’s Timely Technoparanoia
[3]BoingBoing – Infosec Taylor Swift’s cyber-philosophical musings
[4]The Vine – New Faves: Taylor Swift is an expert on internet security
[5]Security Intelligence – What Does Taylor Swift Know About Data Security?
[6]SpiceWorks – Is Taylor Swift the best InfoSec voice on twitter?