Comments on: Penetration Testing is Easy — Too Easy http://danielmiessler.com/blog/penetration-testing-is-easy-too-easy grep understanding Fri, 25 May 2012 02:15:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: TIMM http://danielmiessler.com/blog/penetration-testing-is-easy-too-easy/comment-page-1#comment-87979 TIMM Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:16:10 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/penetration-testing-is-easy-too-easy#comment-87979 <p>"Attacking these networks is like pushing over little kids. Congratulations on that."</p> <p>Awesome.</p> <p>-=T=-</p> “Attacking these networks is like pushing over little kids. Congratulations on that.”

Awesome.

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]]> By: TIMM http://danielmiessler.com/blog/penetration-testing-is-easy-too-easy/comment-page-1#comment-249670 TIMM Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:16:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/penetration-testing-is-easy-too-easy#comment-249670 <p>"Attacking these networks is like pushing over little kids. Congratulations on that."</p> <p>Awesome.</p> <p>-=T=-</p> “Attacking these networks is like pushing over little kids. Congratulations on that.”

Awesome.

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]]> By: Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/penetration-testing-is-easy-too-easy/comment-page-1#comment-87944 Daniel Miessler Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:26:31 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/penetration-testing-is-easy-too-easy#comment-87944 <p>The point?</p> <p>The point is that people make it into something it isn't, and that a more tangible sense of accomplishment can probably be achieved by <em>creating</em> something. Just my opinion, of course.</p> The point?

The point is that people make it into something it isn’t, and that a more tangible sense of accomplishment can probably be achieved by creating something. Just my opinion, of course.

]]> By: Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/penetration-testing-is-easy-too-easy/comment-page-1#comment-249669 Daniel Miessler Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:26:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/penetration-testing-is-easy-too-easy#comment-249669 <p>The point?</p> <p>The point is that people make it into something it isn't, and that a more tangible sense of accomplishment can probably be achieved by <em>creating</em> something. Just my opinion, of course.</p> The point?

The point is that people make it into something it isn’t, and that a more tangible sense of accomplishment can probably be achieved by creating something. Just my opinion, of course.

]]> By: Marcin http://danielmiessler.com/blog/penetration-testing-is-easy-too-easy/comment-page-1#comment-87916 Marcin Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:57:03 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/penetration-testing-is-easy-too-easy#comment-87916 <p>I'm with kuza on this, what's your point? If what you're saying is 99% of the security community is not as l33t as they say they are, okay... but it's like that all over, in every industry.</p> <p>We're all just a bunch of button pushers and keypad mashers in the end.</p> I’m with kuza on this, what’s your point? If what you’re saying is 99% of the security community is not as l33t as they say they are, okay… but it’s like that all over, in every industry.

We’re all just a bunch of button pushers and keypad mashers in the end.

]]> By: Marcin http://danielmiessler.com/blog/penetration-testing-is-easy-too-easy/comment-page-1#comment-249668 Marcin Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:57:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/penetration-testing-is-easy-too-easy#comment-249668 <p>I'm with kuza on this, what's your point? If what you're saying is 99% of the security community is not as l33t as they say they are, okay... but it's like that all over, in every industry.</p> <p>We're all just a bunch of button pushers and keypad mashers in the end.</p> I’m with kuza on this, what’s your point? If what you’re saying is 99% of the security community is not as l33t as they say they are, okay… but it’s like that all over, in every industry.

We’re all just a bunch of button pushers and keypad mashers in the end.

]]> By: kuza55 http://danielmiessler.com/blog/penetration-testing-is-easy-too-easy/comment-page-1#comment-87894 kuza55 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:18:12 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/penetration-testing-is-easy-too-easy#comment-87894 <p>Umm, surprise? Almost everyone in security is simply a monkey who has read some books/materials, and applies what they know. Even those who are pen testing applications rather than networks are doing pretty much the same thing - they know what kind of bugs are present in applications, so they try to find them.</p> <p>But then again, doctors are pretty much monkeys as well, highly trained monkeys, yes, but monkeys nonetheless. So I don't really see your point.</p> Umm, surprise? Almost everyone in security is simply a monkey who has read some books/materials, and applies what they know. Even those who are pen testing applications rather than networks are doing pretty much the same thing – they know what kind of bugs are present in applications, so they try to find them.

But then again, doctors are pretty much monkeys as well, highly trained monkeys, yes, but monkeys nonetheless. So I don’t really see your point.

]]> By: kuza55 http://danielmiessler.com/blog/penetration-testing-is-easy-too-easy/comment-page-1#comment-249667 kuza55 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:18:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/penetration-testing-is-easy-too-easy#comment-249667 <p>Umm, surprise? Almost everyone in security is simply a monkey who has read some books/materials, and applies what they know. Even those who are pen testing applications rather than networks are doing pretty much the same thing - they know what kind of bugs are present in applications, so they try to find them.</p> <p>But then again, doctors are pretty much monkeys as well, highly trained monkeys, yes, but monkeys nonetheless. So I don't really see your point.</p> Umm, surprise? Almost everyone in security is simply a monkey who has read some books/materials, and applies what they know. Even those who are pen testing applications rather than networks are doing pretty much the same thing – they know what kind of bugs are present in applications, so they try to find them.

But then again, doctors are pretty much monkeys as well, highly trained monkeys, yes, but monkeys nonetheless. So I don’t really see your point.

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