party trick to shut up the non-believers

[robert.portvliet at gmail.com (Robert Portvliet)]

Change some grades, start a nuclear war?  :)

Of course if you do physical assessments, I would say lock picking is always
impressive


On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Ron Gula <rgula at tenablesecurity.com> wrote:

> On 5/3/2010 11:54 AM, Robin Wood wrote:
> > Hi
> > At a party the other day I was asked the normal question of what do I
> > do for a living. I said security and kept it a bit vague but was
> > pressed so explained what pen-testing is and roughly what I do. I then
> > got the challenge, prove it, prove you can hack a company.
> >
> > People would say to a dentist, prove you can do a filling but this
> > person insisted they wanted a demo. I explained the legalities and
> > finally fobbed them off and got away but it got me thinking, has
> > anyone got any good party tricks that they can pull in this kind of
> > situation that give an instant wow but are easy to do and legal? Not
> > quite legal but I was thinking if I knew any big sites with XSS I
> > could rewrite but none came to mind at that time.
>
> You could keep sanitized screenshots of your conquests on your phone.
>
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> Tenable Network Security
>
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