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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.
That link is certainly weird. While loading, a script tried to "read private data from any window". Is Infoworld hacked or something?
I once worked for a company which used to carry out "free security survey" where we'd go round to peoples houses and attempt to scare them into buying an overpriced alarm system from one of our sales men who were without exception sleazy dishonest assholes.
Their method of paying everyone was to pay large amounts to one person and expect them to take the money from their own bank accounts to pay the other staff as some kind of tax dodge presumably. They paid me like that and I left that very evening and spent the next two weeks laughing at their pathetic phone calls threatening me with their 'top' lawyers and the police etc.