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Do you have the brains for cybersecurity?

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Re: Do you have the brains for cybersecurity?

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Post by balabaster »

mtgx wrote: post #3

What's the point if they're just going to ask for backdoors in those systems later?

I guess if you can crack these, then you're more competent than the current guard you'll be asked to replace and won't be asked to compel companies to write code without pay to breach their own security systems... so perhaps you'd be doing the world a favour by becoming an underpaid cyber security expert working for peanuts at one of the world's premier intelligence gathering agencies without needing to ask for sweeping surveillance rights that are a gross breach of everyone's right to privacy - which there are laws set in place to protect, unless you're the Government, in which case, the law doesn't apply to you. ;)

Re: Do you have the brains for cybersecurity?

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Post by tshadwell »

What area of 'cybersecurity' would I be finding myself breaking substitution ciphers based on wingdings in?

I work in the information security industry, and I feel like I'm missing something but I really have to ask what these are relevant to.

Cryptography, which this appears to be a reduced form of is mostly tangential and very nuanced relative to the ciphers in this challenge. I often feel my line of work is grossly misrepresented by dizzying fields of esoteric numbers and references to ancient cryptography when I'm happy to find myself many of my days engrossed in the security characteristics of some powerful technology used right now in the real world.

I moved from engineering to security, but if this was my only interaction with security, I'm not sure I'd have been interested.

Edit: if you're interested in real crypto challenges, try http://cryptopals.com/ and read Cryptography Engineering, which is a wonderful read that goes over not only the cryptography but also the principles common across the many specialisations of the infosec industry

Re: Do you have the brains for cybersecurity?

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tshadwell wrote: post #6

What area of 'cybersecurity' would I be finding myself breaking substitution ciphers based on wingdings in? I work in the information security industry, and I feel like I'm missing something but I really have to ask what these are relevant to. Cryptography, which this appears to be a reduced form of is mostly tangential and very nuanced relative to the ciphers in this challenge. I often feel my line of work is grossl…

I think this is geared for kids, and not really adults.
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