[SirChainsaw]

Don't worry about the official criminal record. I've been a software developer for just over 20 years....had a DBS check once. Just once.

You clearly are talented so stop telling yourself that.

Have you thought about starting your own security consultancy?

[Cullinet]

the quandary of either hiring employees whose hacking efforts on my company's infrastructure I can defeat / defy and hiring someone who I can't protect myself from is going to come down to some very individual assessments that I don't believe a DBS check can help me with.