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Re: Penetration Testing is Easy — Too Easy

TIMM — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:16:10 -0000

"Attacking these networks is like pushing over little kids. Congratulations on that."

Awesome.

-=T=-

Re: Penetration Testing is Easy — Too Easy

Daniel Miessler — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:26:31 -0000

The point?

The point is that people make it into something it isn't, and that a more tangible sense of accomplishment can probably be achieved by creating something. Just my opinion, of course.

Re: Penetration Testing is Easy — Too Easy

Marcin — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:57:03 -0000

I'm with kuza on this, what's your point? If what you're saying is 99% of the security community is not as l33t as they say they are, okay... but it's like that all over, in every industry.

We're all just a bunch of button pushers and keypad mashers in the end.

Re: Penetration Testing is Easy — Too Easy

kuza55 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:18:12 -0000

Umm, surprise? Almost everyone in security is simply a monkey who has read some books/materials, and applies what they know. Even those who are pen testing applications rather than networks are doing pretty much the same thing - they know what kind of bugs are present in applications, so they try to find them.

But then again, doctors are pretty much monkeys as well, highly trained monkeys, yes, but monkeys nonetheless. So I don't really see your point.