Ask HN: What do I need to learn to be useful as a hacker to defend my country?

Re:Ask HN: What do I need to learn to be useful as a hacker ... by bambataa on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:49PM (#30472190)

Are any of those listed qualifications valuable? I already know that Prince2 isn’t going to be the bulwark against an invasion.

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Re:Ask HN: What do I need to learn to be useful as a hacker ... by pc86 on Friday February 25, 2022 @04:40PM (#30472682)

I have an ITIL certification and I can honestly say it was the most useless 3 or 4 days (I don't even remember) of my entire professional life. Absolute rubbish, it was either completely made up / false, or such a basic level of common sense it makes you wonder how anyone got paid to write it down in the first place. The certification never expires but I haven't had it on my resume since I left that job.

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Re:Ask HN: What do I need to learn to be useful as a hacker ... by gtirloni on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:51PM (#30472218)

I see many security certifications in that list that are useful (e.g. OSCP). You focused on the least useful of those.

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Re:Ask HN: What do I need to learn to be useful as a hacker ... by HstryrsrBttn on Friday February 25, 2022 @04:35PM (#30472638)

AXELOS has a very bad track record.

Learning and getting certified by a company that botched ~80% of their projects... indeed not a good idea.

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