Black hat a ticket to career blacklist

Jail is a great deterrent for employers.

There are better ways of getting into the security industry than to don a black hat.

If convicted, the 25-year-old alleged DistributeIT hacker probably won’t be getting a start in the security industry, or perhaps anywhere in tech for that matter.

He allegedly told police that he couldn’t get a start in the tech sector and was said to spend up to 20 hours some days in front of his machine, from where he allegedly hacked DistributeIT and Platform Networks.

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