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Not only is this Government Shutdown cruel, and childish, but it is Dangerous & Sinister. Something that not many people think about in a situation like this, is Cyber Security. The people who are working to help protect our Cyber networks, are also not getting paid. Not only that, many are contemplating going into the Private sector, where they won't have to worry about this happening again. And many of the young bright minds in Cyber today, will not want to work FOR the government, because they wouldn't want to be put into this situation. Which means that many (if not all of the positions) that will be emptied up, may not get filled in the future. Keep in mind, that we are in a new Cold-War-iesh era, its done via Cyber attacks. Its a Cold Cyber War. Governments have State Agency cyber soldiers, their job is to come in, everyday and try to find ways to break into the other countries digital infrastructure, and U.S. is no different, multiple attempts are done, dai...

Hello World,  So very recently I've accomplished a goal of mine, I'm officially a Certified Ethical Hacker. What that means is I studied and now have the academic knowledge to be a Pen Tester / Entry level Information Security Analyst. I am excited and frustrated at the same time, here is why. I'm excited because I've accomplished this task which I've been wanting to do for a while now (a little over a year), and it does give me a boost in my confidence, I won't lie about that. I'm frustrated because I keep running into a couple of things at this point when trying to get into this field. Thing #1: Most of the jobs that are posted require Top Secret clearance, which I don't have. Thing #2: The rare "entry level" positions that I do find that don't require a clearance are either far from where I live, or ask for 2 years experience.  Its at this point when I start worried a little, because I've run into this situation before. A decade ...

Hello World,  I wanted to talk to you about something today that is near and dear to my heart. First of, do you remember something called "The Arab Spring", back in 2011? You know when countries in North Africa started a revolution against their dictators, and many of them were talked about (some still bask in that glory today), well in 2012 a revolt happened in Sudan (and is still happening today), but no one brought any attention to it. What does this have to do with technology? Everything.  You see the people who were (are) revolting, are the bright young women and men. So what they started doing is report on their own revolt. They would take their cell phones to these peaceful protests and stream them to YouTube. At one point I was in contact with someone there who sent me daily text message of images and reports from there, and I would post them on the Sudan Speaks blog. Then the contact wanted to update it directly from there, then they stopped updating. ...