Getting Your Start Because You Wanted to Get Paid For Hacking

[gbugbear at gmail.com (Tim Mugherini)]

Well said Matt!

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Matt Hillman <cybereagle at gmail.com> wrote:

> I definitely got into the industry because I wanted to get paid to enjoy my
> hobby. You spend a large portion of your life doing your job, so if you can
> make it something you enjoy! I find it strange some people consider this
> selling out. my hobby slotted almost seamlessly into my work, and I still
> don't draw a very solid line between the two.
>
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Raffi Jamgotchian <
> raffi at flossyourmind.com> wrote:
>
> > My experience mirrors yours. After wardialing for BBSes, I ran one off
> > of a 'teenage line' as we called it back then. Wrote some BBS software
> > that sucked. After entering the workforce, outside email was
> > introduced to our ccMail system which I did over an serial connection
> > between a standalone PC that would connect to the Internet over ISDN
> > and finger the ISPs POP server.
> > People wanted to browse (this is 1995-6) so we bought a Sun Sparc
> > workstation and checkpoint and it was my job to set it up and harden it.
> >
> > The only time that we were hacked (that I know of!) is during a
> > pentest they found a modem connected to a conference bridge system
> > running NT4 and an unsecure PCAnywhere that the vendor left on.
> >
> > ----
> > Raffi
> >
> > On May 14, 2009, at 8:20 PM, Chris Merkel <cmerkel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > A variation on that other thread. I didn't get my start in infosec
> > > because I got hacked. I was a huge (beige hat) fan of the movie War
> > > Games, if you catch my drift.
> > >
> > > BBSs, tymnet, telenet (no, that's not a typo kids...) and other random
> > > x.25 links found via wardialing were my first playgrounds. I remember
> > > one day, as the sun rose on a typical all-nighter, I said to myself
> > > "Cool, I just taught myself how to use DEC VMS, I bet I'd be good at a
> > > job working with computers..."
> > >
> > > So, who got into IT in the hopes that they could one day start getting
> > > paid for something they had done for fun in the past? (And is willing
> > > to admit it ;-)
> > >
> > > I did - it's still a lot of fun, though there's a lot more paperwork
> > > involved.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > - Chris Merkel
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