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After a few years of avoiding the cable industry, I went ahead and signed up for Comcast Highspeed2Go, a new bundled service where they resell Clearwire and combine it with conventional broadband home internet service. As per usual large non-technical business operations, and I feel that I must classify Comcast as such, they launched a product [...] There is a lot of perennial talk of social engineering and direct project/resource management. Attempts to solve complicated political situations with manipulation or a slick widget tend not to work very well over time. They are not addressing the underlying issue. The wedge of compliance or a mandate from a framework may get some base [...] So you want to be a consultant or a contractor? When I have told tales of some of the contracts and consultancy gigs I have worked, people think it sounds pretty nice. There’s a big bill rate, you escape some of problems of being an employee, what could possibly go wrong, right? Not always. Sometimes it is [...] It’s nice that geeks are cool now. Now there are a lot of people who say they’re hardcore. Here’s some of them: These stereotypes are not who I’m going to be talking about, though I do have some guilty pleasures of a few of those portrayed above. I’m going to talk about me and my kind. [...] There has been several published works on the what the media calls hackers, the hacker underground, the information security industry, and the technorati class in general lately. Here are a few: Phrack #63 section 13 The death of the underground |
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