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Would You Hire a Former Black Hat?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the second-chance-career dept.

Mark Zenson asks: "Understanding the mindset of a hacker and the likes of one may be useful to counter security attacks, but apparently companies still object to hiring former, or even reformed, black hats." The article asks this question of several executives in the industry and for various reasons, many of them were skeptical to the idea of hiring such people. Would you give black hats a second chance if you were in their position?

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  1. Re:It All Depends on Their Maturity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Holy shit. Ha ha, no, you were exactly the kind of anti-social zero the other poster was trying to weed out. Kill yourself, you're worthless.

  2. Re:It All Depends on Their Maturity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The fact that you work overtime shows that you are a horrible programmer, not a good one. Good ones can get what they need done in time. You are slow.