| > Also this was before Freelancer.com, before code.org. This was in 2004, 3 years after the dot com bubble burst and was getting rosy again. Everyone and their mother's with a blog were making hundreds a month. Programmers have been peddling shareware since BBS days. Are you really calling Germany a 3rd world country? > Some people live in small towns where the cool programming positions are adapting invoice management software for small businesses. So why is this not legitimate work? > Often too much skills and too little to do to start. Then you stumble upon a IRC channel and a world of challenges opens in front of you. Don't judge if people are oppressed (or better, repressed) if you have never been, please, either because at that age YOU had the occasions or guidance, or because you hadn't that curiosity or talent. This is a pretty arrogant statement. Many programmers don't program malware not because they aren't smart enough, they don't do it because it is socially unacceptable and they don't have a criminal mind. If you feel the need to "learn" about security, don't exploit, trojan, or ddos my server. Do it to your own computer. |