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The Dirty Jobs of IT

Posted by Zonk on from the we-care-a-lot dept.

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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  1. Link covers several pages by TFer_Atvar · · Score: 5, Informative

    One-page link.

  2. Re:Mike Rowe! by Alexx+K · · Score: 5, Informative

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

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    Don't mind the extra X. Alex
  3. Re:What about the guy by countSudoku() · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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    This is the NSA, we're gonna geet U h@x0r5! Also, what is a h@x0r5?
  4. Something wrong with that by octogen · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.