> Attackers and defenders have completely different perspectives that sometimes lead to completely different opinions. And I definitely don't care about the con

> Attackers and defenders have completely different perspectives that sometimes lead to completely different opinions. And I definitely don't care about the consensus opinion of the security community considering that over the past decade the majority of self-described and even employed "security engineers" are neither experienced systems programmers nor experienced system administrators. Prowess with nmap and Wireshark seem to make for "hacker" credentials in this community. TYVM for this healing missive, but especially the nugget I pull-quoted. That sums up a lot of what I had come to think about "security" as a career: You need to be an engineer first.