Re: career advice
Enis Sahin <[email protected]>
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There are great replies posted but I just wanted to share my thoughts about programming skills and hacking/pentesting in short. Being able to read code and understand it is essential just like everybody said. Being able to write code is a little different in my opinion. I was getting things done without writing my own code and tools/scripts developed by others was satisfying my needs for some time. It's only after I had some years of experience I had a better attacker mind set and wanted/needed to utilize more elaborate strategies, then the free tools started falling short of satisfying my needs. I find it analogous to playing a musical instrument. When your understanding and ideas of music exceeds a certain threshold you stop playing cover songs and start innovating :) Enis On 23 November 2011 06:11, Nathalie Vaiser <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wanted to thank everyone who responded to my question. > > I wasn't expecting so many replies (and quality responses). You have > all been extremely helpful and given me a lot to think about and > useful resources to look into. > > I'm proud to be a member of this great community. > > Nathalie > CEH, MCP, MCTS, Linux+ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This list is sponsored by: Information Assurance Certification Review Board > > Prove to peers and potential employers without a doubt that you can actually do a proper penetration test. IACRB CPT and CEPT certs require a full practical examination in order to become certified. > > http://www.iacertification.org > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- http://www.enissahin.com | http://twitter.com/enis_sahin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This list is sponsored by: Information Assurance Certification Review Board Prove to peers and potential employers without a doubt that you can actually do a proper penetration test. IACRB CPT and CEPT certs require a full practical examination in order to become certified. http://www.iacertification.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------