@zulu ,
@baqai ,
@NA71
Teen puranay pappi , you can count me in as an innocent bystander.
Found three potential candidates for my cybersec company, so far so good.
Ah good old nixie, still reminds me of the good old day lynx, PuTTY, spoofers, sniffers, all sorts of interesting stuff. I do remember few kids (that time) picked off debian sources, went through all the sources, recompiled and repackaged as I don't remember Paklinux or green-flag linux something like that, it was available on two CDs and available in CD form I think from tower area and of course few FTP sites.
Nixie is a pretty mature platform now, best of both world is its free and open source.
While working for one of the financial institution in Pakistan there was once a major crash lot of data was corrupted the vendor was asking too much money in dollar terms, which eventually turned out to be due to external intrusion there was one geek there he and I could communicate, we did make a new proposal (me not in the IT deptt) to rebuilt the corporate data platform bottom up from scratch, nixie was the platform selected, DB was made out of opensource, now they have one of the most sophisticated platform and they are absolute masters in it with zero problems, to the extent that they have considered many times to setup a new IT company and sell the software thus developed. Winblows is rarely used there its pure nixie enviro.
Like I said its not that there is shortage of right people here what they need is recognition (not the kind of recognition which is usually accorded, one uniformed guy in front and two at the back carrying loaded guns and treated like some terrorists), respect, money and freedom. Difficult here. I do remember meeting few people two did setup their own company in lahore for cybersecurity never heard of them again. Few in Isb and khi working for MNC and selling their prepacked cybersecurity solutions (closed sources).
Personally I have always loved IBM cell-core processors, their RISC instruction set, the check methods built in to the hardware to kill processes demanding too much of resources or halting other processes. You know you could still make a super computer out of 4-8 PS3 with YDL and right configuration.
BTW: IT and cybersecurity are not my profession if you know what I mean, never was interested or needed for that matter to work as stenographer (read data entry) or system administrator (glorified P.A or windows installation, printer,mouse,keyboard and scanner troubleshooting experrrrrrrrrrrrrt PUN intended).
Here is another one few years back went to this organization don't want to name, they asked me to submit my cell there which was BB Z10, by looking at it he got scared like he has seen something which will blast in his face. I was like what the f*, and asked whats wrong, he says we are scared of blackberry like its the most sophisticated terrorist platform and I asked why he said something called BBM, imagine.
Now I go meet the big boss heading the project, besides discussion on the business he tells me we are very sophisticated in terms of IT we just got our latest system installed with windows 7 by a international brand having their rep office in the diplomatic enclave isb, the server is brand new and now we are all linked to the outside world and can pull a lot of data for research. I said OK thats great, wonderful in his inflated status calls in his IT guys who turns out to be a NCO. So I ask what is the server OS Sun Solaris, Unix, Linux or what looks at me like I am talking gibberish. Says server is the latest one Ok.
Next question knowing what your organization is data security is of utmost importance, so how do you manage that? Ans . Don’t know but we have firewall and latest antivirus.
OK
So you would need network traffic analyzer, packet drop analysis, port sniffing, keylogging, piggyback malware, intrusion detection and lot of expertise local developed, they are like OKKKKKKKKKKKKKK (looking at me like watching E.T) and say we will definitely ask the vendor.
Time for me to get out and pick up my intrusion device of BB-Z10 with its BBM.
Hackers Eve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Meinel
Learned a lot from her, more of a Fortran Lady, but still taught a lot of techniques to C++, VB idiots like me.