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Studying Maggots And Whale Dung Better Than Being Microsoft Security G uru


From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:29:12 GMT

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Not sure if this came across the list already, but...

Via InformationWeek.

[snip]

What could be worse than being a Microsoft security professional?

Well, not much, as it turns out.

Popular Science magazine released its fanciful bottom-10 list of the Worst
Jobs in Science 2007. And Microsoft security gurus grabbed the number six
spot on the notorious list.

Who has it better than the folks patching bugs and securing software at the
Redmond conglomerate? Well, first off, the answer would be nearly everyone.
Specifically, though, the writers at Popular Science suggest whale feces
researchers have it all over the security professionals. As the magazine
sees it, the people who scoop up whale dung and dig through it for clues
are thanking their lucky stars they're not working at Microsoft.

[snip]

More:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=200001016

PopSci's Worst Jobs in Science 2007:
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0203101256a23110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrc
rd.html

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
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