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The advice is pretty good overall, but the excessive profanity is unprofessional and distracting.

It is interesting that he values "SANS" certifications, but not the courses for them.

Besides my own rambling[1] you might find these resources valuable instead:

* https://tisiphone.net/category/security-education/

* https://krebsonsecurity.com/category/how-to-break-into-secur...

* https://s3ctur.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/breaking-into-infose...

[1] http://dfirnotes.net/ etc.

hth,

adric

> the excessive profanity is unprofessional and distracting

I strongly disagree. Most security shops I've been in are made up of people who are blunt and speak exactly like that. You absolutely do need to be able to conduct yourself professionally in a professional setting, but when giving advice to folks I tend to use the most informal language I have, which sometimes means this level of profanity.

Not sure how it's distracting.

Besides, you're supposed to all be jaded and curse as a coping mechanism because someone just launched a site with a plaintext password database

This...is actually 100% true. One of the biggest struggles I've personally had in security is to not be super jaded and cynical. Helps immensely to not be in an organization that tolerates (or even rewards) shoddy security practices (at least that's how I solved it).

I do agree. That's actually part of why I called out the language: maintaining balance (as well as not cussing in front of the wrong people) are critical skills for security professionals and sorely lacking in many would-be candidates.

His educational advice was good but the attitude he shares via diction is unhelpful at best especially to folks who do not _yet_ have an awesome job in infosec.

Thanks, have a great weekend, cheers,

adric

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