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What's a more interesting way to get people interested in IT, plopping them down in front of a VM and teaching them how to stand up a DNS service, or teaching t
by Thriptic 8y ago
What's a more interesting way to get people interested in IT, plopping them down in front of a VM and teaching them how to stand up a DNS service, or teaching them basic pen testing? People are only going to put in the time to learn the subject matter if they are intrigued by it. As an example, I sat through a few CS classes in college and thought they were painfully boring. A few years later I learned how to script and saw the power of software development, and I became interested in going back and learning the fundamentals to advance my skills.
- watwut 8y agoFemale programmer here: just about any of them would be more interesting personally. As a topic it sounds cool, but it is not actually that interesting, not what attracted me and you won't be able to use those skills that much in real life or real situation. Not that practicality is standard, I like plenty of impractical things (like theory). I mean, doing basic pen testing is repetitive mind numbing work that requires mostly rote learning. It gets interesting and challenging only later on. Fake hacking exercises can be fun, but that is not basic pen testing - that is game.