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  • Computing Science (Artificial Intelligence)

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  • Computing - (Computing & Networks)

    6 35.29%

  • Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures

    2 11.76%

  • Mobile Computing

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Thread: (Serious) Which of these degrees would you choose

  1. Apr 12th, 2007, 10:36 AM #1
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    (Serious) Which of these degrees would you choose

    I got to choose one of these degrees to do next year and i cant make my mind up. Which of these would you choose?
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  2. Apr 12th, 2007, 10:39 AM #2
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    Re: (Serious) Which of these degrees would you choose

    The one that says "".


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    You don't have any choices... what are we supposed to choose from?
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  3. Apr 12th, 2007, 10:40 AM #3
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    Re: (Serious) Which of these degrees would you choose

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  4. Apr 12th, 2007, 10:44 AM #4
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    Re: (Serious) Which of these degrees would you choose

    White hats make pretty big bucks. I wanted to be one a few years ago, and still would like to know the basics, but I ended up in dev...
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  6. Apr 12th, 2007, 10:55 AM #5
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    Re: (Serious) Which of these degrees would you choose

    Quote Originally Posted by MoE70
    I got to choose one of these degrees to do next year and i cant make my mind up. Which of these would you choose?
    Don't you know what field interests you the most?
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  7. Apr 12th, 2007, 11:16 AM #6
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    Re: (Serious) Which of these degrees would you choose

    Quote Originally Posted by timeshifter
    White hats make pretty big bucks. I wanted to be one a few years ago, and still would like to know the basics, but I ended up in dev...
    which one is white hat

    Quote Originally Posted by mendhak
    Don't you know what field interests you the most?
    all of them really. those are the options i chose for next year. Im more into software dev but they all have that and the software engineering one has a little maths which im not sure about but it also has a lot of software dev
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  8. Apr 12th, 2007, 11:41 AM #7
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    Re: (Serious) Which of these degrees would you choose

    White hat is the ethical hacker.. kind of a slang term...
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  9. Apr 12th, 2007, 12:12 PM #8
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    Re: (Serious) Which of these degrees would you choose

    "Ethical Hacker" is a crap name for it anyway. The preferred terminology is "Penetration Tester".

    There are tons of different titles bestowed on security assessors and most of us hate "Ethical Hacker"...I prefer my current title "Application Security Analyst".
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    Re: (Serious) Which of these degrees would you choose

    It looks like you are getting some good feedback.

    Six votes equally split between three options.
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  12. Apr 13th, 2007, 08:01 AM #10
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    Re: (Serious) Which of these degrees would you choose

    Quote Originally Posted by Memnoch1207
    "Ethical Hacker" is a crap name for it anyway. The preferred terminology is "Penetration Tester".

    There are tons of different titles bestowed on security assessors and most of us hate "Ethical Hacker"...I prefer my current title "Application Security Analyst".
    what degree did you do?
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  13. Apr 13th, 2007, 08:06 AM #11
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    Re: (Serious) Which of these degrees would you choose

    Quote Originally Posted by Memnoch1207
    The preferred terminology is "Penetration Tester".
    There's a joke in there somewhere, I just know it.
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  14. Apr 13th, 2007, 04:58 PM #12
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    Re: (Serious) Which of these degrees would you choose

    Quote Originally Posted by MoE70
    what degree did you do?
    Computer Science. I was also a .NET developer for almost 4 1/2 years before moving into security.
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