[ale] Bad business

[Stephen Touset]

Jonathan Rickman said:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Stephen Touset wrote:
>
>> This is one of the reasons why I've recently started really pressuring
>> myself to become more proficient in things like routing, network
>> management, administrating systems, etc., as opposed to coding. The
>> previous jobs being more "physical", and requiring someone's physical
>> presence to a higher extent (than, say, coding), I'm hoping that
>> they'll be much harder to transfer overseas.
>
> I say this at the risk of looking like a vulture waiting for the
> carcasses of American business to start rotting, but nevertheless...
>
> Now is a good time to start re-tooling your brain for security work
> too. Based on some of the things I've seen lately coming from off-shore
> (I will not get into specifics to avoid starting a flamewar, but if you
> read the article you'll get my drift), the security industry is really
> going to explode over the next few years...particularly the
> vulnerability research segment.
>
> --
> Jonathan Rickman
> X Corps Security
> http://www.xcorps.net
>
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*pets his fresh copy of Bob Toxen's book*

Yeah, I've really been getting into learning how to bastionize hosts,
secure networks, etc. It's part of my natural paranoia, I think.
Stephen Touset


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