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What kind of network do you have at home? What you don’t want to hear is, I get enough computers when I’m at work.. I’ve yet to meet a serious security guy who doesn’t have a considerable home network.

Ehrm... sorry. At various times in my past I've had: a garage with two server racks, several BBS systems, a coffee table made out of a small beowulf cluster of recycled SUN sytems, various media servers, a PBX system, most switches/appliances rigged up to X10, a cross city wireless link on my rooftop, remote-login-via-packet-radio, various centralized login systems, etc, etc....

But now I have: a router, MacBook Pro, Vonage box, and a big USB HDD for backups. Sometimes I plug in a projector to watch movies.

I'm not "just looking for a paycheck", but that doesn't mean that I have to maintain a second enterprise network at home to stay sharp. Certianly not now in the days of vmware and cloud computing.

Employers seriously need to grasp that a work/life balance is the sign of a healthy, professional employee with his/her act together...




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