--Originally published at Diego's Password
So hacking, super cool, magic powers, we all get it, but does that makes me a bad person? In this blog post I’ll talk about the dark side, the light side and a bit of history.
So what about this sides, I believed in the absolute truth. I think it’s really self explanatory. The dark side is that hacker, in fact cracker, which uses his powers to take advantage of others, being usually illegal. The hacker that operates in favor of security belongs to the light side, otherwise known as ethical hacker.
There are tons of certifications that lets you prove your skills formally. In fact I wrote a complete blogpost about them, I’ll link it here. This certificates are sometimes requisites for companies that are looking for a security expert. What does this have to do with ethical hacking? Well, this security experts, besides building and designing a security architecture, they have to break them somehow so that they know their weak links, and that ladies and gentleman would be the act for hacking ethically. The effort to find vulnerabilities inside a security system with a controlled environment. As a fun fact, for us systems engineers, information security analyst is the fifth best job in the technology field.
We once got the chance of meeting and talking with an amazing computer systems engineer, security expert magician. He told us that there are communities which share knowledge and experience in pro of vulnerability detection. This vulnerabilities are very expensive in the market, imagine it is the secret recipe for the crabby patty. How would Mr. Crab would feel if someone found out the way to his recipe. He would pay a fortune to keep that safe and to patch the whole right? Well that happens in real life, except that he is not the only one
As in life, it’s our choice to make good or bad decisions. it’s declared in our ethics the limits of both, so let’s just follow them and become successful engineers in our fields responsibly.
I am also going to leave the amazing poster I found about informatics security history. It’s really interesting and it will give us an idea of where did information security came from and why is it that important these days.
