266 Security De-engineering
I think it was some years before I got into security vocationally that
the area had me in awe. I recall hearing some of my more enthusi-
astic colleagues speaking of the challenge of security. Security, more
specically hacking, was seen as the ultimate test of an IT geek’s abil-
ity. Although it may not have been thought of in such formal terms,
there was an intuitive sense that security was indeed a step-up or a
branching out from a regular IT administration or programming job
that forced an employee to focus on one product such as a specic
Unix avor or Oracle- or Cisco IOS-based devices, or one task such
as writing Pascal or C programs. Security was the IT geek’s heaven
because of the possibility of getting one’ ...