Not this crap again..

[tadaka at gmail.com (Jason Wood)]

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 <softreset64738 at gmail.com>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 <strandjs at gmail.com> 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
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