Want a Security Pro? Get Politically Incorrect and Learn Geek Culture

Posted by samzenpus on Monday October 29, 2012 @10:20AM from the fight-trolls-with-trolls dept.

coondoggie writes "While complaints can be heard far and wide that it's hard to find the right IT security experts to defend the nation's cyberspace, the real problem in hiring security professionals is the roadblocks put up by lawyers and human resources personnel and a complete lack of understanding of geek culture, says security consultant Winn Schwartau. Take Janet Napolitano, U.S. secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, who has said the country can't find the right people for network defense. The real problem is a misunderstanding of computer geeks, their personalities, habits and their backgrounds, said Schwartau today during his talk at the Hacker Halted information security conference."

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I RTFA - about as deep as a parking lot puddle by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-29 10:31 · Score: 0, Troll

What a waste of time.
Re:I'm sure geeks by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-29 13:27 · Score: 0, Troll

Why should they be exempt? Geeks aren't special.
Because you need me, not the other way around. And so does everyone else. ...
BWWAAAA HHHAAA HA!
Seriously?
Get. The. Fuck. Over. Yourself.
No one NEEDS you. If you died tonight, what would happen wherever you work?
Yeah, they'd hire a replacement, life would go on.