HackMiami Offers Both Training and Opportunity (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @05:38AM from the penetration-testing-for-fun-and-profit dept.

Today's video conversation guest is Alex Heid, whose HackMiami title is Senior Security Researcher. The group started as a non-profit but is now technically a for-profit company that gets work from local businesses and shares it (and the fees it generates) among HackMiami members. You're welcome to join them at one of the regular meetings they hold at Planet Linux Caffe in Coral Gables (which, for those who care, is one of few businesses in the Miami area that accepts Bitcoins) and at other local venues, or at their annual conference, although you have a pretty long wait ahead of you for that; the next one is scheduled for May, 2014. Meanwhile, if you want to start something similar to HackMiami in your area, Alex has some good tips for you, including the idea of checking out -- and listing your group on -- the Hackerspaces Web site.

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How do they do it? by ugen · 2013-06-25 06:32 · Score: 2

I moved to Miami a few years ago from an area with significant technological presence. A contrast is quite striking. I see SoFla as a technological (and, really, intellectual) wasteland. There are no high tech companies to speak of (well, there is Citrix, I think). General level of education, technological and otherwise, is relatively low compared to more "hi-tech" parts of the country. Add to that a peculiar local demographics where vanity is the primary motivation, and you get an environment in which it's difficult to create or maintain a techie movement. I applaud these guys for trying, of course.
Me, I am here for the diving :)