(08-22-2013 09:50 AM)Tad Carlucci Wrote: Back when I was a "hacker" it was (a) legal, (b) encouraged, and © nothing like what we now call "hackers" (I'm not sure whether to blame the news media or Hollywood for that). Nowadays the kind of "hacker" I was is now called a "network security consultant" and we (well, not me, any more: I'm retired) get paid a lot to constantly think about ways to improve security. Often, that means we're thinking about ways to bypass existing security measures.
So, yeah, I guess I have a hacker's mind. Virtually everything I look at, I think, "What's the threat matrix, where are the attack vectors, how easy are they, and how well known?"
It takes one to know one.
Our government and even the police works with former hackers who did the naughty stuff as little wiz kids.
As they grew older they use their skills to help secure networks as they know as nobody else where the weak spots are.
Building wearables for kitties?
