Re: Network Hacking

From: Wombat (no.spam@wanted.here)
Date: 02/21/03 

From: "Wombat" <no.spam@wanted.here>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:48:09 -0500

"Daniel Billingsley" <dbillingsley@NO.durcon.SPAAMM.com> wrote in message
news:ecgUVjS2CHA.2644@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I'll tell ya, people just never cease to amaze me. I suppose you'd have
the
> university teach a class on stealing Porsches for PE too, eh? Yeah, good
> real-world experience. What a complete dolt.

If the school was attempting to turn out automotive engineers specializing
in anti-theft technologies then you had better believe it. Only it wouldn't
be for PE credit. You speak of dolts, yet seem to believe that having
network administrators never experience real-world applications before being
sent out into the workplace? Admittedly the specifics of the assignment may
leave a bit to be desired, but I would rather have my credit card numbers
and medical histories safeguarded by students who were actually challenged
to find and exploit known weaknesses under the supervision of a qualified
instructor than by people who once read in a book that "sometimes bad people
do bad things to networks - but good administrators should never know what
kinds of attacks are possible."

What about you?