An opinion piece worth reading from Bruce Schneier in Wired:

Security requires a particular mindset. Security professionals — at least the good ones — see the world differently. They can’t walk into a store without noticing how they might shoplift. They can’t use a computer without wondering about the security vulnerabilities. They can’t vote without trying to figure out how to vote twice. They just can’t help it.

When we hire people at Gemini Security Solutions, this mentality is something we explicitly look for. I do think this can be taught, but people with the innate hacker tendencies tend to come up with 5 vulnerabilities where an “ordinary” person might only see one or two.

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