Hacker Magazine Phrack Returns After Four-year Hiatus (phrack.org)

Earthquake Retrofit quotes this report from The Register: More than four years since its previous issue, iconic hacker zine Phrack has published a new issue. Phrack issue number 69 contains articles from researchers Aaron Portnoy and Alisa Esage, as well as articles on OS X rootkits and exploiting Ruby on Rails...

First released in 1985 via BBS, Phrack has been staffed by dozens of editors and contributors in its three-plus decades. The long-running zine has also hosted a number of notable articles, including the famed Hacker Manifesto and Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit.

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Spot the cluelessness

[Opportunist]

Sorry, but if you don't know anything about IT security, you might want to keep from running your mouth. You just might look like a complete idiot to those that know more than you.

If you spent at least 5 minutes googling you could have notice that there are indeed by now a lot of certifications that will easily allow anyone, even non-professionals, to find out whether someone knows what he's doing or whether he's just talking crap. And contrary to popular opinion hacking some server and getting caught is certainly NOT anything that would recommend you as hiring material. If anything, it ends your career in any field that even remotely touches anything considered sensitive. The cynic in me would say 'cause you got caught, but at least the official reason, and that's at least as good, is that you cannot be trusted. And trust goes a long way in this field.

Said certifications are also something that you will immediately lose if you're caught doing anything illegal in the area of security, by the way. Which is essentially the equivalent of losing your job and any income. So no, I can't just walk over to the next sucker after I've been caught with my virtual fingers in some server I should not prod. Organizations that can afford security professionals usually also know that these certifications exist and that lacking one means that, well, you're not something they want to hire.

So please, if you insist in talking down to someone, at least first of all find out where you stand.