Doug,
Another suggestion for getting your foot in the door might be to look at a small
ISP in your area. In many cases, they are owned and operated by computer people
and are therefore more open to helping someone who is interested in computers
without making judgements based on age.
It's not always the case. I'm 21 now and I am in charge of the network for
a 250-300 User publishing company running UNIX and NT machines (I've renewed
most of the network over the last 4 years). If you choose to do it the hard
way without CS degrees and such however, you should be prepared for
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 10:29:07 -0500 Douglas Pichardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Revered security professionals:
Hi, my name is Douglas Pichardo and I am 16 years old. I live
in Virginia Beach, Virginia (USA), and I am in the 10th grade. I have been a
member of this discussion list for
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 11:22, Mark Ng stuffed this into my mailbox:
sortta the same with me although school tests proved i should be able to
get the highest grade of education i never did. totally f up my
education. let's just say I ain't happy in school. I can't learn in
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To: Douglas Pichardo
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Subject: Re: Please help a young aspiring security professional
Securing Linux is a good book... i have it at work, ill get the isbn for
you... also read this...
http
--- Omar Koudsi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I found that the best way to learn other than reading and implementing,
at least for me, is the honeypot approach, put a machine on the net with
a permanent address and see what kind of attacks it faces and how can
you counter them. It will also allow you
On Friday 01 January 1999 10:09, Marc towers stuffed this into my mailbox:
The problem is your age probably. I'm 22 now and working in a hardware store
(i don't know the english word... just call us dealer for now, we sell to
other stores not end-users). I started out here when I was 18
Hello Dougles,
I started off looking for security jobs at the age of 17 (20 now) and
started out doing the same things, reading hundreds of documents from web
sites and playing with linux freebsd. I am still without a security job
but started buying old computers and other hardware to start a
Douglas
I know how hard it can be to pick things like this up, incidentaly I
live in VABeach you might want to check out www.itpa-hr.org go ahead and
register and come on out to the meeting this Thursday, I'm sure that you
can at least talk to some more people and do a little personal
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Subject: Re: Please help a young aspiring security professional
Securing Linux is a good book... i have it at work, ill get the isbn for
you... also read this...
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-05/lw-05-ramparts.html
this is a neat article... may help you out
I sounds like you're already heading in the right direction for eventually
moving into this field. Unfortunately I don't know of any companies that
would be willing to let a high school student poke around on their network
in order to learn stuff, but if you have skills to offer them and are
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