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The Dirty Jobs of IT
dantwood writes "In an Infoworld article, Dan Tynan writes about the '7 Dirtiest Jobs' in IT. Number three? Enterprise espionage engineer (black ops). 'Seeking slippery individuals comfortable with lying, cheating, stealing, breaking, and entering for penetration testing of enterprise networks. Requirements include familiarity with hacking, malware, and forgery; must be able to plausibly impersonate a pest control specialist or a fire marshal. Please submit rap sheet along with resume.'" Paging Mike Rowe, Mike Rowe to the IT desk.
Would this then, be a description of Mike Rowe Soft?
Jus' wonderin'...
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Or, how about the guy who publishes user-submitted stories with varying amounts of information on geek websites, adds a misleading headline and sensationalizes the summary, including several misspelled words, and then sits back and waits for all the users to write things like "Fr1st Ps0t", "In Soviet Russia...", "I for one welcome..." and goatse.cx links, all in a desparate attempt to increase subscribers and ad revenue?
I, for one, welcome our new dirty, spelling-challenged, sensationalizing user-submitted story-posting editor overlords!
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1) Dreamweaver webmaster
2) Keyboard cleaner (cheetos and pepsi and genetic splatter, oh my!)
3) Floating point wrangler
4) Monochrome wire detangler
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6) rpm dependency arbitrator
7) "Cowboy Neal option" writer
UTF-8: There and Back Again
You know, running a penetration testing firm sounds like an excellent cover for black-hat hackers.
Nothing gives you plausible deniability for your data heists like being paid to try stealing it in the first place...