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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?