They have a good point though. Pen testing is a vanishingly small corner of our field, and I haven’t seen anyone with a past conviction get hired for those roles, in a long time.
I’ve seen too many hacker kids think their hacker reputation is going to get them out of trouble, and it didn’t.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 5 months ago
prole@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Again, it depends. Some of the most notorious hackers of all time literally had their prison sentences commuted so that they can work for the NSA (or US Gov’t in some capacity).