Re: Identifying passion for security?

["Morgan Reed" <morgan.s.reed () gmail com>]

On 12/2/06, andy cuff <lists () securitywizardry com> wrote:
> Evening,
> Showing my age I'm finding it increasingly difficult to find security geeks who
> are truly passionate about security.  There seems to be a recent trend in
> unpassionate people chasing either the money, an easy ride or something that
> isn't as dull as network or system administration.
> So how would you identify passion quickly, personally I like what cons have you
> been to? If they are passionate but poor they would reply none but I'd like
> to ....  What books have they bought,    what tools do they use    what sites
> do they visit      email them at night and see how long it takes them to reply
>
> what else?

I particularly like the last one ;o)

Good indications are also likely to be gleaned from the following resources;
<http://www.plethora.net/~seebs/faqs/hacker.html>
<http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/appendixb.html>

You could possibly try making a security-related holy war[1] inducing
comment and see what happens (This may however be
counter-productive.).

Other than the above and your suggestions I can't really think of
anything off-hand.

Morgan

PS. Good to see you're thinking of us poor geeks who can't really
afford to go to many conferences.

[1] <http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/holy-wars.html>

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