InfoSec Taylor Swift

About

InfoSec Taylor Swift (@SwiftOnSecurity) is a novelty Twitter account that offers humorous commentaries and advice on information security and cyber warfare in the voice of the American pop star Taylor Swift.

Origin

@SwiftOnSecurity tweeted for the first time on April 9th, 2014, about The HeartBleed Bug.

Spread

@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; these are now mostly propagated on the user’s Tumblr^[1], while @SwiftOnSecurity focuses on text-only jokes and information. Many of @SwiftOnSecurity’s most popular tweets, including the two below, are about Linux and its users.

On September 1st, the Tumblr blog SwiftOnSecurity^[1] was launched as an accompaniment to the Twitter account. In the following months, in the wake of the Fappening/Celebgate, @SwiftOnSecurity was written about by several notable publications including Grantland^[2], Boing Boing^[3] and The Vine.^[4]

@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?