[wplug] RE:one more question for today

[Petrucci, Joseph]

I was hired to breqak there security I didn't go in and break it then threaten them into letting me fix it. 
 
Joseph A. Petrucci
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From: wplug-bounces+joseph.petrucci=ddiworld.com at wplug.org on behalf of Jonathan S Billings
Sent: Tue 2/22/2005 12:19 PM
To: General user list
Subject: Re: [wplug] RE:one more question for today



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>
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