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.

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Link covers several pages

[TFer_Atvar]

One-page link.

Re:Mike Rowe!

[Alexx K]

Actually, this guy is the TV narrator, and this guy was sued by Microsoft.

Re:dirty job?

[blhack]

Oh really, I think corporate spy would be a simple job. Find out what they want you to do, turn in your company/boss, flip them off as the FBI takes them away, collect the reward and get a new job. Sounds awfully simple to me. If anyone ever asked me to pull some illegal bullshit job like that I'd be like "Hmm, yeah can you repeat that and speak closer to my MP3 recorder?" They're talking about being a pen-tester.
The company that you're breaking into hired your firm to test their security.

Re:What about the guy

[countSudoku()]

Welcome to *world. Everytime you see a URL that ends with ...world.com you're in for a shite load of badly designed pages with a minimum of technical content strewn about a myriad of ugly web-widgets in an attempt to outwit adblock+. Good luck with that! No need to RTFA when that's the case, it's safe to assume anything from the summary.

Re:Real Dirt

[KudyardRipling]

Ah, yes, 'tis the old eighty gallon tank compressor that blows 120 psi. That's a must have in any computer shop. I had pulled apart a number of Telex controllers that had not been serviced since the mid 1990's. Blowing one of these clean outside may invite either attention from the fire department (the dust cloud looks like smoke) or the green police (DEP) asking questions.

Any mentions of carousel type color laser printers? Any printer that moves toner cartridges on purpose will always be a mess inside. Metal can wet/dry vac anyone?

Re:What about the guy

[qzulla]

I just hit the print it link and read it all on one page.

But yeah, those multiple page things annoy me too.

qz

Something wrong with that

[octogen]

Dirty IT job No. 7: Legacy systems archaeologist
WANTED: INDIVIDUALS FAMILIAR WITH 3270, VAX/VMS, COBOL, AS/400, AND OTHER LEGACY SYSTEMS

I have to disagree: It may not be the very best idea to try to connect AS/400 applications to webbrowsers, but an AS/400 is certainly NOT a legacy system. The system architecture of the AS/400 is actually much more modern than that of most other systems. Do you know any other system with a persistent single-level-storage, that continues working exactly where it stopped before the power was lost, after you boot it up again - I mean, it does not RESTART processes, it CONTINUES them. Or do you know another system, where you can plug in a completely different main processor, just recompile the OS kernel, and every application on the system will be AUTOMATICALLY ported to the new processor architecture upon first start - as if they were Java programs? Ever heard of the "technology independent machine interface" (TIMI)?
Reimplementing your old applications on an AS/400 is much LESS of a risk than trying to migrate those applications to so-called modern systems like PC-servers, because an AS/400 is orders of magnitudes more secure (you DO know it has hardware-supported pointer protection, don't you?) and more realiable than a PC-server.

Re:A script has tried to read private data

[Anonymous Coward]

The problem is that you're allowing Javascript to run on your machine. Stop it.