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	With any 'computer security consultant' the fact is that it will take 10 years of study before you become competent and you will probably need to know a little bit about all of the above (i.e. be somewhat of a generalist). This kind of a profession, where you are guaranteed a high paying income is something you have to seriously dedicate yourself to. However, you probably don't have to work as hard as a programmer, because the military wants computer researchers/soldiers.		With any 'computer security consultant' the fact is that it will take 10 years of study before you become competent and you will probably need to know a little bit about all of the above (i.e. be somewhat of a generalist). This kind of a profession, where you are guaranteed a high paying income is something you have to seriously dedicate yourself to. However, you probably don't have to work as hard as a programmer, because the military wants computer researchers/soldiers.

−	~~I would say~~ it's probably easier to get a job paying six figures in security than it is to get one paying six figures in programming, but I would also say that programming is more rewarding as it is more about building functional tools, rather than patching them or trying to break them.	+	So, it's probably easier to get a job paying six figures in security than it is to get one paying six figures in programming, but I would also say that programming is more rewarding as it is more about building functional tools, rather than patching them or trying to break them.

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 ** Any good software security researcher, will be deep diving into code and re-engineering it, breaking or fixing it. Which is not really all that interesting. The interesting part was making the software, and someone has probably already been there, done that.
-With any 'computer security consultant' the fact is that it will take 5-10 years of study before you become competent and you will probably need to know a little bit about all of the above (i.e. be somewhat of a generalist). This kind of a profession, where you are guaranteed a high paying income is something you have to seriously dedicate yourself to. However, you probably don't have to work as hard as a programmer, because the military wants computer researchers/soldiers.
+With any 'computer security consultant' the fact is that it will take 10 years of study before you become competent and you will probably need to know a little bit about all of the above (i.e. be somewhat of a generalist). This kind of a profession, where you are guaranteed a high paying income is something you have to seriously dedicate yourself to. However, you probably don't have to work as hard as a programmer, because the military wants computer researchers/soldiers.
 I would say it's probably easier to get a job paying six figures in security than it is to get one paying six figures in programming, but I would also say that programming is more rewarding as it is more about building functional tools, rather than patching them or trying to break them.

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 ** TV Satellite Security - If you can find a way to get free TV from satellites, beating the existing encryption, they will hire you to improve it. Somewhat obsolete with the internet. (I can't find the amp hour episode at the moment, because search engines are trash).
 ** Decapping and reverse engineering (see https://www.righto.com/)
-** Anything with regards to Internet of Things hacking (I have a whole lot of reverse engineering links here: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Finding_Camera_Stream_Paths#Reverse_Engineering_Links)
+** Anything with regards to Internet of Things hacking (I have a bunch of reverse engineering links here: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Finding_Camera_Stream_Paths#Reverse_Engineering_Links)

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 ** TV Satellite Security - If you can find a way to get free TV from satellites, beating the existing encryption, they will hire you to improve it. Somewhat obsolete with the internet. (I can't find the amp hour episode at the moment, because search engines are trash).
 ** Decapping and reverse engineering (see https://www.righto.com/)
-** Anything with regards to Internet of Things hacking
+** Anything with regards to Internet of Things hacking (I have a whole lot of reverse engineering links here: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Finding_Camera_Stream_Paths#Reverse_Engineering_Links)

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 ** Any good software security researcher, will be deep diving into code and re-engineering it, breaking or fixing it. Which is not really all that interesting. The interesting part was making the software, and someone has probably already been there, done that.
-With any 'computer security consultant' the fact is that it will take 5-10 years of study before you become competent and you will probably need to know a little bit about all of the above (i.e. be somewhat of a generalist). This kind of a profession, where you are guaranteed a high paying income is something you have to seriously dedicate yourself to. However, you probably don't have to work as hard as a programmer, because the military wants computer researchers - there is demand for computer soldiers.
+With any 'computer security consultant' the fact is that it will take 5-10 years of study before you become competent and you will probably need to know a little bit about all of the above (i.e. be somewhat of a generalist). This kind of a profession, where you are guaranteed a high paying income is something you have to seriously dedicate yourself to. However, you probably don't have to work as hard as a programmer, because the military wants computer researchers/soldiers.
 I would say it's probably easier to get a job paying six figures in security than it is to get one paying six figures in programming, but I would also say that programming is more rewarding as it is more about building functional tools, rather than patching them or trying to break them.

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 ** Become an expert with relevant software in Kali Linux https://www.kali.org/.
 ** Computer Forensics Expert - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_forensics_tools I think I've read about Aw top see before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopsy_(software)
 With any 'computer security consultant' the fact is that it will take 5-10 years of study before you become competent and you will probably need to know a little bit about all of the above (i.e. be somewhat of a generalist). This kind of a profession, where you are guaranteed a high paying income is something you have to seriously dedicate yourself to.
 I would say it's probably easier to get a job paying six figures in security than it is to get one paying six figures in programming, but I would also say that programming is more rewarding as it is more about building functional tools, rather than patching them or trying to break them.

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 The final reason to avoid computer security, is that it is miserable work, and there is always someone that holds higher keys than you. You can't beat the surveillance state.
-If there is a reason to do security, it is because you can get rich. But that's greedy. And there is high demand for computer security researchers, because there is always high demand for soldiers. You can't be the world's number one military without having the world's best computer security forces. Such is modern warfare. The only viable reason to do computer security these days is to reinforce your own defenses. I.e. vulnerability management. Or to remove malware from computers, which is a type of antivirus job.
+If there is a reason to do security, it is because you can get rich. But that's greedy. And there is high demand for computer security researchers, because there is always high demand for soldiers. You can't be the world's number one military without having the world's best computer security forces. Such is modern warfare. All of that is ugly. The only viable reason to do computer security these days is to reinforce your own defenses. I.e. vulnerability management. Or to remove malware from computers, which is a type of antivirus occupation.
 All that being said, here are some resources on security, since someone asked me.