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My suggestion would be to become a certified ethical hacker. You can take a course at nearly any certification school (like the big bootcamp organizations, or at Microcert, or somewhere like that). If you can make it through the course successfully, and become certified, then you can get the big bucks working for a major organization as a certified ethical hacker, making sure that their corporate security is in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley auditing standards.
You're really in the wrong sort of forum to ask these questions - and don't do the "deltree c:\" thing - especially on your friend's computer, if you want to remain friends with that friend.
If you want real answers to your questions, consider going out to a reputable profession-based forum - like a programmers forum for C or for Unix, or something like that. You can then find out from these extreme geeks whether or not you actually want to join their ranks. If you do....get ready for a lot of Star Trek and Dr. Who stuff.
Good luck, and do it the right way - not here - if you want to talk motorcycles, this is the place. If you want to talk about off the wall stuff like hacking, this ain't the place - and you're just going to get in trouble listening to a couple of these guys!
Hey. Dr. Who rocks. Though, Star Trek isn't so hot.
The cool thing about this forum is that there are all types here. I'm a BSD system admin and systems programmer for a living, for example. I know at least a few other people on this board are hackers by profession (please see my first post for the proper definition).
Hey. Dr. Who rocks. Though, Star Trek isn't so hot.
The cool thing about this forum is that there are all types here. I'm a BSD system admin and systems programmer for a living, for example. I know at least a few other people on this board are hackers by profession (please see my first post for the proper definition).
Yup, i'm one of em. InfoSec Analyst for a bank. Pen testing, war driving, cracking, dumpster diving, incident response, forensic investigation....that's my day to day job. Granted, i've been doing this stuff since a good chunk of you were still in diapers and BBS' were the shit.
Spike: Not really mean. At least, not most of us. There's been some legitimate advice offered in this thread (All of mine was sincere, at least).
ChloroFiend, sounds like fun work. As mentioned about, BSD sysadmin. Of course, that entails a lot of security work (I'm paranoid, and my boss picked the same up from me), etc. Don't need to wardrive or anything similar, thankfully. I %#&* hate IEEE802.11
Dam Munky!
I forgot all about this crap... I was laffin my ass off reading this 
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