I interviewed there in 2002 and didn't get the job; reading the article, I was almost expecting to see "...an event which profoundly affected Zalewski's career and reshaped the industry for years to come."
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Worthwhile read. The company was an important nexus of the infosec industry at the time. But also take it with a grain of salt: some of the connections and claims feel a bit tenuous:https://www.wired.com/story/cult-of-the-dead-cow-at-stake-hackers-excerpt/ …
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As to "why": don't know. They were a consulting company, I was a young Polish guy on on a visa. Maybe I said something stupid in the interviews. Maybe they didn't want a guy who had a strong accent and couldn't get a clearance.
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Either way, like many of my colleagues from that era, I went on to do many of the same things as the people listed in the article. The company was one of a handful of reputable infosec workplaces back in the day, but I don't think it a magical gateway to success.
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Perhaps tellingly, many similar stories have been written about other companies and associations that operated at the time; off the top of my head:https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/02/w00w00/ …
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...and so, I suspect that simply being born in the 70s or 80s, and picking up some interest in infosec in the 90s, was a far better predictor of success
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Lot's of familiar names in that article :)
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