Comments on: The future of IT and security for kids as a career http://infosecplace.com/blog/2007/02/12/the-future-of-it-and-security-for-kids-as-a-career/ Commentary on the State of Information Security Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:22:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: LonerVamp http://infosecplace.com/blog/2007/02/12/the-future-of-it-and-security-for-kids-as-a-career/comment-page-1/#comment-11022 LonerVamp Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:58:33 +0000 http://infosecplace.com/blog/2007/02/12/the-future-of-it-and-security-for-kids-as-a-career/#comment-11022 One could say that the glor..err..wild wes...err...old days of hacking and security are over? Then again, with the recent Solaris telnet remote root the other day, perhaps the pendulum will just keep swinging back and forth? At any rate, I think it is one thing to be around computers all day, but an entirely new thing to be inquisitive about logic, programming, and taking things apart. So many of those visionaries you mention seem to be the ones who didn't just sit and play with the computer, but really played with the computer and pushed it beyond the norms, learning code, implementing their own things, etc. Nice ramble, by the way. Sometimes it is needed to just throw out some ideas to the peers and to just relieve from internal pressure and thoughts. ;) One could say that the glor..err..wild wes…err…old days of hacking and security are over?

Then again, with the recent Solaris telnet remote root the other day, perhaps the pendulum will just keep swinging back and forth?

At any rate, I think it is one thing to be around computers all day, but an entirely new thing to be inquisitive about logic, programming, and taking things apart. So many of those visionaries you mention seem to be the ones who didn’t just sit and play with the computer, but really played with the computer and pushed it beyond the norms, learning code, implementing their own things, etc.

Nice ramble, by the way. Sometimes it is needed to just throw out some ideas to the peers and to just relieve from internal pressure and thoughts. ;)

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