Re: Who stay focused?

[Jean-Denis Gorin <jdgorin () computer org>]

> From: ArkanoiD, April 16 2009 6:09 PM
>
> Well, i am one of the old-timers (yes, if you started as
> security professional in mid-90s this counts as old-timer now)
> and i am still here.

That's also how I define old-timers ;)

> Have you noticed those? Those guys who started in early 2000s
> and who are *experienced professionals* now?
> They are not visionaries, nor scientists (not am i, though),
> they are not bright minds either. [SNIP] And they are always
> welcome in the corporate world.

They sound like a lot of  "Senior Security Consultant" I know (sadly)...

> So i am just a loser

No. You are not: you have kept the right state of mind to perform
sucessfull security.

> I just tried to do something to make this crazy world a little
> bit sane. And i failed epically.

I was just like you. Like a lot of other old-timers I know...
Then, I decide to quit the field, trying another way: infosys
architecture seasoned with security (security from the start).
It's a slow process, but sometime it's worked. And then I'm
proud to deliver a system I know to be resilient.

> That's not because the world finally learned to leasten,
> that's just because everything other fails too obviously
> even for this insane world.

And that world will stay insane until the "big crash".
I confess, some days I pray for the coming of the "big crash" so
security practionners can be listen to. But, morons are still
too many! Look at what happened after 9/11: do they develop
counter-terrorism intelligence? Of course not! They just
put some regulations to forbidden any ways to harm a plane (the
liquid ban is one of the more stupid one)


JDG

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't
go away." Philipp K. Dick"

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