Re:Why the Girl Scouts Are Learning to Pick Locks and Hack C...
by watwut on Sunday July 08, 2018 @03:28PM
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Female programmer here: just about any of them would be more interesting personally.
As a topic it sounds cool, but it is not actually that interesting, not what attracted me and you won't be able to use those skills that much in real life or real situation. Not that practicality is standard, I like plenty of impractical things (like theory).
I mean, doing basic pen testing is repetitive mind numbing work that requires mostly rote learning. It gets interesting and challenging only later on. Fake hacking exercises can be fun, but that is not basic pen testing - that is game.
As a topic it sounds cool, but it is not actually that interesting, not what attracted me and you won't be able to use those skills that much in real life or real situation. Not that practicality is standard, I like plenty of impractical things (like theory).
I mean, doing basic pen testing is repetitive mind numbing work that requires mostly rote learning. It gets interesting and challenging only later on. Fake hacking exercises can be fun, but that is not basic pen testing - that is game.