Originally posted here by CXGJarrod


Or maybe its the fact that Antionline.com is the 6th result down in Google when you search for hackers.
i'm guessing the first five just sucked.

if they look up h4x0rz, they get a bunch of weblogs from people like unix-girl, etc. because that's all truly 1337 h4x0rz do anyway - blog and play quake. :|

sorry for any quake fans out here.

I'm still convinced that people want to be hackers because
1) it will get them guys/girls
2) it will get them money or free stuff
3) they will become popular
4) people will actually call them by their "handle" (zero cool, lord nikon, etc.)
5) they saw the movie with the above listed handles, or other movies like swordfish, sneakers, etc. or *the net* - hacking with macs. oh it must be a true story....

what learning about security really gets you:
1) less time to spend with your current girl/guy
2) you end up spending more money on the latest products so that you can test them and actually know about them. sometimes this works out to a job that pays more money, but that's part 4
3) you'll lose contact with most of your non-computer friends... 'who needs those lusers anyway?"
4) people will probably forget your real name, and make one up for you. or - my favorite - they'll call you by the old IT guy's name. like it's too hard to learn a new one.
5) a job where you get the wonderful opportunity to stay late, never see direct sunlight, get carpal tunnel, and blamed for anything in your office that happens to remotely involve a computer doing something someone doesn't want it to. - i've personally been cussed out because one of my users didn't like the way that the driver for the laser printer worked....
6) the realization that no matter how many degrees/certs/whatever you have, you're probably still out of date. and probably always will be. things change so fast, you'll end up spending more time just trying to be not too far behind.

anything i'm forgetting to add?