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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
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGgqx2q1pz9mNUZTMRAtN+AJ9d/tVn3oeVWC6jk3nD+gYZCqMMzgCg2aPr SJS7uN9KTFpvaGdgEVmf4yU= =SX9V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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