Re: career advice

[Enis Sahin <enis.c.sahin () gmail com>]

There are great replies posted but I just wanted to share my thoughts
about programming skills and hacking/pentesting in short.

Being able to read code and understand it is essential just like
everybody said. Being able to write code is a little different in my
opinion. I was getting things done without writing my own code and
tools/scripts developed by others was satisfying my needs for some
time. It's only after I had some years of experience I had a better
attacker mind set and wanted/needed to utilize more elaborate
strategies, then the free tools started falling short of satisfying my
needs.

I find it analogous to playing a musical instrument. When your
understanding and ideas of music exceeds a certain threshold you stop
playing cover songs and start innovating :)

Enis


On 23 November 2011 06:11, Nathalie Vaiser <nvaiser () gmail com> wrote:
> I wanted to thank everyone who responded to my question.
>
> I wasn't expecting so many replies (and quality responses).  You have
> all been extremely helpful and given me a lot to think about and
> useful resources to look into.
>
> I'm proud to be a member of this great community.
>
> Nathalie
> CEH, MCP, MCTS, Linux+
>
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