Request for input from someone who has hired or managed an ex-hacker

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Request for input from someone who has hired or managed an ex-hacker TC 01-25-2005
Posted by TC on January 25, 2005, 5:39 pm
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I'm writing an article about hiring hackers. I need input from someone
who has hired or mangaged a hacker.

1) Did it change the way you perform your job?
2) Was management different?
3) Were there any social issues to contend with? This is, did this
person work well with non-hackers in your organization?
4) Was it worth it and would you do it again?
5) Any other input you feel relevant.

Also, I would love to hear from a psychologist or sociologist.

TIA!

metrotex
@
yahoo.com


Posted by Walter Roberson on January 25, 2005, 7:02 pm
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:I'm writing an article about hiring hackers. I need input from someone
:who has hired or mangaged a hacker.

I would suggest that for responses to be meaningful, you need
an additional question aimed at clarifying what the respondant
means by "hacker".

The greatest difficulty I have noted with hackers is getting them
to -stop- working and take a break. The second greatest difficulty
would perhaps be to get them to focus on just one thing instead of
exploring tangents or working on many things at once. Perhaps I
am merely projecting my own failings onto others ;-) but I think
these to be more categorical truths.

But then, I'm a hacker from the days when "hacker" meant little
more negative than "Judged most likely to practically *live*
on pizza deliveries."
--
This is not the same .sig the second time you read it.


Posted by Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez on February 12, 2005, 12:47 pm
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TC wrote:
> I'm writing an article about hiring hackers. I need input from someone
> who has hired or mangaged a hacker.

My free advise. NEVER HIRE A HACKER.
There are plenty of companies with very competent Security
Consultants that can do any job related to security. Hiring
a hacker it's the most stupid thing a company can do.

> 1) Did it change the way you perform your job?
> 2) Was management different?
> 3) Were there any social issues to contend with? This is, did this
> person work well with non-hackers in your organization?
> 4) Was it worth it and would you do it again?
> 5) Any other input you feel relevant.

Just one. Hiring a hacker it's a no-no.

> Also, I would love to hear from a psychologist or sociologist.
>
> TIA!
>
> metrotex
> @
> yahoo.com

Regards.

--

Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez
Director Tecnico de bgSEC
jkerouac@bgsec.com
bgSEC Seguridad y Consultoria de Sistemas Informaticos
http://www.bgsec.com
ESPAŅA

The only people for me are the mad ones -- the ones who are mad to live,
mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn
like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
-- Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"


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