116 Security De-engineering
I could best illustrate the levels of experience with the TSAP regional
analysts as follows: the most experienced analyst in the region (outside
of the Bangkok “Hacker lab”) was supposedly a Unix guru because
“she knew the vi editor.” Vi is a standard Unix text editor with some
very useful text manipulation commands, but it can be dicult to use
at rst. Some time is needed to learn the commands—it is certainly
not as intuitive as learning Microsoft Word. But on the other hand,
it is normally expected of Unix administrators that they learn the vi
editor in the rst month of their career. Let us just say that if one were
of the disposition to brag about something, knowledge of vi would
not be up there near the