RE: Script Kiddies

["DAN MORRILL" <dan_20407 () msn com>]

Kinda wanted to take a minute to think about this.

The big determiner between art and junk is passion. Regardless of what you 
do, if your a good information security person, or a good hacker, you have a 
passion for the technology and the job. Doesn't really matter if you get 
paid for it or not, late evenings or not. If you have passion, then you have 
what it takes to excell in a field, any field, including information 
security.

There is a lot of passion for information security amongst some people, and 
for many it is just a job, don't take it so seriously, hey see the latest 
dilbert cartoon, and please read my blog. I

have only seen two attacks in 14 years of information security that I would 
like to meet the hacker. One from china, one from russia. Very good, still 
don't know how the boxes survived the attacks, they were that good, that 
targeted, and that unique. They had passion, should be the only ones allowed 
to have a CISSP or what ever certificate du jour is.

I think that is Uncle is railing against, and if I am right, welcome to the 
side show. MCSE's and CISSP/CISA are all in the center ring right now. But 
like any circus, it too will fold up the tent, and the side show is what 
brings the "suckers born every minute" into the big top.

R/
Dan




> From: "Uncle Scrotora Balzac" <scrotora () hushmail com>
> To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Subject: [Full-disclosure] Script Kiddies
> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:23:38 -0800
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> I love hearing security people talk about script kiddies. It's the funniest
> thing to see them walking around with their chests pushed out like 
> peacocks,
>  as they scoff the silly little kiddy.
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