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Hiring hackers: Safety in numbers?
3 comments- TAGS:hackers, Kevin Mitnick, security, tech hiring
- IT TOPICS:Careers, Security
Sometimes A Great Notion Dept.: Your Kevin Mitnicks, your Frank Abagnales, your Jérôme Kerviels -- what are we supposed to do with our hackers and crackers and social engineers, especially once they've done their time?
Mitnick and Abagnale, both of whom have paid their debt to society (whatever that means these days), have parleyed their knowledge into security work and public speaking, at which both excel for pretty much the same reasons they were good at what they did to get themselves a reputation. Now Kerviel, who's accused of circumventing risk controls at Société Générale (his then-employer) to disguise billions of dollars in bad trading decisions, is doing the consulting thing.
Which seems reasonable to me -- obviously better to involve this guy in computers than finance, based on his track record. (Did I mention billions of dollars?) On the other hand, I wonder if there isn't a fantastic job-placement opportunity for someone out there to job-place hackers in pairs. It's the Vegas model as explained by Ace Rothstein: Everybody's gotta watch everybody else. If I were in the market to hire a reformed hacker or social engineer and was slightly paranoid about it, I think I'd want to get another one and make sure they're on opposite sides of a zero-sum situation.
What do you think -- million-dollar human-resources idea or what?
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