Originally posted here by nihil
They are there, and they will not go away. That does not make what they do right in any shape or form.
I agree that they will never go away, so why so harsh?
If I could, I would remove all crime from the universe, but I'm only on lvl 88.

Originally posted here by nihil
People were finding work in IT long before security became such an issue. Anyway this is usually given to the network support/administration guys, so it is frequently an additional burden as opposed to a sole occupation. I think that you overestimate the number of people who "benefit" from black hats.
There is more people in comp. security then just IT.
You have comp. stores, games, security software, pritty much any software.
There is not alot of dedicated jobs to security, but huge amounts of money are spent on security.