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Re:T-Mobile Hacker Who Stole Data on 50M Customers: ‘Their S... by BenjiWiebe on Thursday August 26, 2021 @03:19PM (#28319333)
And yet, (correct me if I'm wrong), a good security person does not need to understand cryptography. He should have some basic understanding of how to apply it, but the knowledge of it's internals and the math behind it is pretty much useless.
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Re:T-Mobile Hacker Who Stole Data on 50M Customers: ‘Their S... by granshaw on Thursday August 26, 2021 @05:25PM (#28321018)
Yeah from the outside looking in, to me the biggest requirement is one of mindset, thinking like an attacker, thinking of all the possibilities… in that sense very much like the qualities for a good QA person
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Re:T-Mobile Hacker Who Stole Data on 50M Customers: ‘Their S... by ddng on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:07PM (#28323882)
true, crypto(graphy - wow, been so long since i've typed it that I've just realized crypto has now been bogarded for something else). theory vs applied but I think its still true the mindset of a hacker is still very different. ie similar to the whole IT vs dev
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