I got a chuckle out of this line from the article. "*Drawbacks:* Talk about stress. If a system is infiltrated by a virus or hacker, it could mean lights out for the security consultant's career. "This is a job you can't afford to ever fail in," says Evans."
What was funny to me was I remember a thread a while back where a lot of us talked about getting into infosec **because** we got hacked. I suppose I was just doing sysadmin work at the time, so you could point to that as a reason why I've never had much career trouble. Still, I had to grin at it. Jason On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Soft Reset <[email protected]>wrote: > Hmmm...I'm going out on a limb here, but I'm not seeing why he's *is* a > fraud? I understand how this profile can portray us in a negative light as > people who see *us* may think we were once on the black-hat side of things, > but do you all think its impossible for someone to switch to the white-side? > > Although to be honest, no, I wouldn't trust him. Convicted in 2002, served > 16 months means he was *probably* still in jail or just out when he started > his company in 2003. And "...that year, computer security stores > contracted to sell his cyber security software." So, in less than a year of > getting out of prison, he has a company and "computer security stores" sold > his software? WTF??? > > Ok, maybe I understand now...maybe it was just too early in the day. > > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:21 AM, John Strand <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Check it out: >> >> http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/2009/snapshots/8.html >> >> On the plus side. I think it is nice that we have some job security... >> >> On the downside.... Why did they have to go and find "The Worlds #1 >> Hacker?" >> >> Now anyone that wants to get into this field thinks that all they need >> is a CISSP and to be an asshat. >> >> Wait..... That might be accurate. >> >> John Strand >> CISSP, GCIH, GCFW, ' or 1=1; --, Asshat >> _______________________________________________ >> Pauldotcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > -- irc: Tadaka Twitter: Jason_Wood jwnetworkconsulting.com
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