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 <[email protected]>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 <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > Pauldotcom mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >
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