[wplug] RE:one more question for today

[Jonathan S Billings]

Petrucci, Joseph wrote:
> 

> I very much disagree with Bill on one point, Although I would not
> suggest firewall design as a first step to learning to program
> learning to break something is the first step many times in making it
> better. I have had a lot of contracts where my job started by
> breaking security and finding weeknesses to later close those holes.
> It is an interesting part of our profession. 

I think that it is in extremely poor taste to think that getting a job 
by breaking security and then getting hired to fix it is anything other 
than extortion.  You're operating out of a position of power and fear, 
rather than helpfulness.

-- 
Jonathan S. Billings <billings at negate.org>