Building a reputation as a someone with enough skill to find security problems and then solve/exploit them can be profitable in the long run. It may even get you a trip to Vegas for Black Hat. I'd suggest the following.
Give the company a call. Hear what they have to say about a hypothetical situation where a student wants to examine their program for security problems and then wants to report his/her findings back to the company.
If they give you that reverse engineering, IP crap. Post it anonymously somewhere.
If they're cool, then the next step is to approach your college with the same question. Repeat previous step.
Just be careful not to get your weenie whacked!
I Run FreeBSD 5.1 (as a guest OS) under VMware. XP is my native OS. I was trying to find a good alternative to dual-booting. Unfortunately, I find that my system is terribly slow (1.5 Ghz with 256 RAM). Even on a 2 Ghz with 512 RAM, there is a considerable lag. Both the native OS and the guest OS putz along as they compete for memory and whatever else.
I suspect that the actual users will become highly motivated to run VMware as little as possible and will soon learn to love linux (as they should).
HA HA....oh well. I guess I should have previewed before posting:)
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I can appreciate the frustration that many feel concerning the poor quality and shallowness of modern governance.
However, I believe that it is a GROSS over-exaggeration to say that our non-Communist governments approximate the totalitarian regimes of the past.
If we do indeed lack some fundamental rights, it is due to our own laziness. We seem to demand so many things of our government. Yet, simultaneously, we are too damned lazy to get off our asses and work for those things that we want.
Those victimized by Statin and his ilk suffered under the yolk of oppression imposed by a militarisitic police state.
However, we suffer only under the yolk of our own ignorance, laziness, shallowness, etc. You get the idea.
Here's my highly philosophical retort.
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.
I remember hearing the same thing when Microsoft launched MSN Explorer in its attempt to smother Netscape. Hmmm....Looks like we are doomed to live in a multiverse ruled by Bill G.
It's not a thing that you can just jump into, but here are some ideas for you to chew on.
1. First, ignore anything Bill Gates has to offer on the topic. 'nough said.
2. Second, learn to be a really good sys admin. That is, learn how to set-up and properly maintain networks.
3. Third, learn to be a really good sys admin. That is, REALLY learn how to properly set-up and maintain a network. Most sys admins can keep a network running, but are lacking when it comes to security. I don't believe that it's their fault. It's just a matter of a progression. After learning how to keep a network running under normal conditions, you can start to think about learning the ins and outs of network security (i.e., setting up a DMZ, etc.) It's a cart before the horse thing.
Finally, while you're working on the above, learn how to work with Linux, BSD, and other "hardenable" operating systems. You'll find that having a Windows box on the border of your network is generally a bad idea, so you'll need to be comfortable with the above.
Most respected anthropologists agree that creativity evolved slowly over all, but did experience a significant "growth spurt" around 500,000 years ago when a single protohominid family of apes split into two main groups, the prehistoric precursor to Homo Erectus and the French.
Homo Erectus and his kin spent the next half million years making great strides in such varied areas such as discovering fire, electricity, personal hygiene, and making really good movies. The French, in a classical example of divergent evolution, learned to make stinky cheeses and an over-priced alcoholic beverage from rotting grapes.
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Give the company a call. Hear what they have to say about a hypothetical situation where a student wants to examine their program for security problems and then wants to report his/her findings back to the company.
If they give you that reverse engineering, IP crap. Post it anonymously somewhere.
If they're cool, then the next step is to approach your college with the same question. Repeat previous step. Just be careful not to get your weenie whacked!
I suspect that the actual users will become highly motivated to run VMware as little as possible and will soon learn to love linux (as they should).
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Perl rocks!!
HA HA....oh well. I guess I should have previewed before posting :)
However, I believe that it is a GROSS over-exaggeration to say that our non-Communist governments approximate the totalitarian regimes of the past.
If we do indeed lack some fundamental rights, it is due to our own laziness. We seem to demand so many things of our government. Yet, simultaneously, we are too damned lazy to get off our asses and work for those things that we want.
Those victimized by Statin and his ilk suffered under the yolk of oppression imposed by a militarisitic police state.
However, we suffer only under the yolk of our own ignorance, laziness, shallowness, etc. You get the idea.
I remember hearing the same thing when Microsoft launched MSN Explorer in its attempt to smother Netscape. Hmmm....Looks like we are doomed to live in a multiverse ruled by Bill G.
It's not a thing that you can just jump into, but here are some ideas for you to chew on. 1. First, ignore anything Bill Gates has to offer on the topic. 'nough said. 2. Second, learn to be a really good sys admin. That is, learn how to set-up and properly maintain networks. 3. Third, learn to be a really good sys admin. That is, REALLY learn how to properly set-up and maintain a network. Most sys admins can keep a network running, but are lacking when it comes to security. I don't believe that it's their fault. It's just a matter of a progression. After learning how to keep a network running under normal conditions, you can start to think about learning the ins and outs of network security (i.e., setting up a DMZ, etc.) It's a cart before the horse thing. Finally, while you're working on the above, learn how to work with Linux, BSD, and other "hardenable" operating systems. You'll find that having a Windows box on the border of your network is generally a bad idea, so you'll need to be comfortable with the above.
Most respected anthropologists agree that creativity evolved slowly over all, but did experience a significant "growth spurt" around 500,000 years ago when a single protohominid family of apes split into two main groups, the prehistoric precursor to Homo Erectus and the French. Homo Erectus and his kin spent the next half million years making great strides in such varied areas such as discovering fire, electricity, personal hygiene, and making really good movies. The French, in a classical example of divergent evolution, learned to make stinky cheeses and an over-priced alcoholic beverage from rotting grapes.