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From: keith-list at mccammon.org (Keith W. McCammon)
Subject: more security people =3D less securityi

A couple of notes:

1) If this is the best thing you've seen on this list in a while, you 
might be subscribed for the wrong reasons :)

2) All the newbies could get CISSPs right now, in all likelihood.  It's 
just a test.  If you can read and remember, you're an "expert."  But 
this doesn't mean that we're all screwed.

Instead of grabbing our collective ankles, we just do with the CISSP 
what we did with the MCSE: Folks in hiring positions stop doing 
colossally stupid things like putting "CISSP required" on position 
descriptions because, after getting burned once or twice, they'll come 
around and realize that passing a test doesn't mean s***.

These types of trends are always going to come and go.  And if you 
really, really know what you're doing, you'll be fine in the long run. 
I don't think anyone died from starvation during the dot-com bust.  A 
few Benz-o's were repossessed, sure, but an 18-year-old kid doesn't need 
a Benz anyway...

macmanus@...hmail.com wrote:
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> Too bad it won't last - once all the newbies get CISSPs, we'll be screwed!
> Thanks Uncle Scrot, best thing I've seen on this list in a while!
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