Re: career advice

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

I don't regard writing your own scripts or tools for a pentest as
being a destructive skill but I guess it's a matter of point of view
:)

I hope I was able to get my point across about the need to create your
own thing as you know more, do more and have ideas that you have to
address yourself.

Enis


On 23 November 2011 16:29, James W. Meritt <jwmeritt () aol com> wrote:
> The skill to destroy a building (demolition) is not the same as the skill to
> construct a building.
>
> James W. Meritt
> CISSP, CISA, NSA IAM, PMP
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Enis Sahin <enis.c.sahin () gmail com>
> To: Nathalie Vaiser <nvaiser () gmail com>
> Cc: pen-test <pen-test () securityfocus com>
> Sent: Wed, Nov 23, 2011 4:21 am
> Subject: Re: career advice
>
> 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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