I am a senior network engineer. I don't share my salary. I have traveled to Europe for over 80 days in the last 7 years. I handle the Cisco firewall and router security along with NDS and AD security.
I will tell you that being a hacker will not get you a good job. It will hurt you very bad. Most companies won't hire a hacker because they can't be trusted to sabotage code to get into it later. Personally, I would not hire you.
In the early 1980s, we would hack into a network and then tell the company how we did it and how to prevent it along with our contact information to help them secure their network. Now, hackers cost companies and home owners tens of billions in anti-virus, security and other software and hardware to protect your network and computers. We did not hold it hostage for a job. We did it to help them. Usually, we did not take any money for it. We were learning network security. I learned network security from Novell, Cisco, and Microsoft.
A few months ago, I just busted a 16 year old hacker trying to hack the corporate network. He got to the honey pot server. Police and FBI tracked him down. His father lost his job because his work computer was used for the hacking. He also had access to the company network via the VPN. They did not know what he did on their network. I figure it will cost them $50,000-$100,000 to hire a security firm to review and audit the activity from that computer. His parents will be paying another huge bill. I doubt his father will find a job quickly. He won't get unemployment from them because he was fired for cause.
The hacker can't use any computer or internet device for 5 years. So college is not possible. They are also paying us for my time in tracking him down. I doubt he will have an easy time finding a job with a felony for hacking.
Dont hate the
HACKER, Hate the
CODE
HERE are my sketches, please take a look.
The code would not exist without the hacker. With companies surfing the internet for You Tube and other postings, this statement will only cause them to toss your resume and not hire you.
I would stop hacking and get away from those idiots. They are only going to hurt you in the long run.
I would not hire you. I could not trust you not to put in hidden backdoors into code. Allow others to access the network. Sell our data.