Re: application for an employment

[ilaiy <ilaiy.e () gmail com>]

Poking in to someone network for information gathering is illegal.

Donot do it.

You could gather information like post made by the company .. The
manager who is hiring his or her post. which would give you a fair
idea of the network layout and the intrests of the person interview ..

./thanks
ilaiy

On 3/21/06, PCSC Information Services <info () pcsage biz> wrote:
> Matthias et al,
>
> I don't know if this is an ethical practice for a security
> administrator to undertake at all,
> let alone in the context of pre-employment research. I echo the
> sentiments of most
> respondents in that it's not information that's relevant to your
> application for employment
> nor is it representative of the ideal ethical standards by which
> you're no doubt holding
> yourself.
> It's important to discuss your skillset including the use of security
> tools, and
> understanding of current best practices and methodologies. How you
> brought these
> skills to bear on an already unfortunate situation could
> deleteriously impact your
> application here. Clearly you have some insights that the University
> could benefit from
> and having some prior knowledge is beneficial immediately should you
> become
> employed by them, however, disclosing the information before your
> even employed by
> the University could raise ethical questions that I'm sure you're not
> wanting to answer.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Sean Swayze
> PCSC Information Services
>
> On 20-Mar-06, at 7:45 AM, Matthias Güntert wrote:
>
> > Dear listmembers,
> >
> > i am seeking for a new job as a Unix/Linux systemadministrator. There
> > has been an advertisement at a well known university. So I started to
> > prepare my self for the application. While collecting some information
> > about the network, using nmap, dig, etc... I was able to read the
> > whole
> > namespace from the ip range (255.255.0.0)
> >
> > My question is should I use some of the information I have found
> > out to
> > push my application forward? What do you think how a director would
> > react?
> >
> > --
> > Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> >
> >                 Matthias Güntert
>
>
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