Well, the local police and sheriff's department have been "practicing"and writing tickets with this for about four years. This is just another layer of law enforcement that will be collecting information on your whereabouts.
Melanated people (aka Africans, which is a European term) were the first Hebrews and Arabs. "Africans" who migrated East to China, then back migrated after they went through mutation, and mixed with the original people. But of course, no one would believe it unless, well, you already know. Hopefully all the "pseudo-scholars" who spread this knowledge can rest easy now. Most of them died broke while these "discoverers" will die wealthy and famous. Of my post is perceived as racist, so what. I didn't hurt nothing but feelings.
Problem is you can't gain the experience without a CISSP, for the most part. You have to get lucky that you're either promoted or transferred to a security position. That needs to change at the entry level, so these folks can get the relavent experience. Then apply to take the ISC2 or CISSP....One does not necessarily have to obtain an MSCA or MCSE just to get a foot in the door. You are not applying for a sysadmin gig when starting out. At this point, A+, Net+, and ITIL are seen as the gatekeepers.
Half the folks don't have a knack for methodical troubleshooting. Doesn't matter whether they are certified, experienced, or not. Some folks don't have the common sense to simply tell someone, "I'll find out later" AND put forth the effort in finding the answer themselves.
This certificate is geared towards CS, Mathematics, or Engineering students or enthusiasts or self taught programmers and engineers.
The job: Application Support Analyst, IT Analyst, Tech Support Analyst... You'll find the job descriptions on Indeed.com..... If you are currently an "IT major" you may learn some of this material as part of your major coursework. Otherwise, calling it "IT Support" would be very misleading for someone like me who has done Help Desk/Desktop/ Networking/System Administration/ Networking security for the past 13 years with MCSE, COMPTIA, and Cisco certifications and I'm giving someone advice as for as which path to follow.
Now with that said, a "job" consisting of these skillsets is more of a TIER III/IV in IT Support, but can serve as entry level experience for DevOps for CS or engineering functionaries (CS grads and self taught).Especially someone like me who already has technical IT experience and it is a requirement that I am versed in at least one scripting language and some automation scripts and tools.
My advice....this certificate was formulated as a gateway to DevOps, technical support, not "IT Support," in the traditional sense. You won't receive calls about not being able to retrieve emails, paystubs, lost files, identity management and access. However, if an internal company app or the companies software product is buggy, that's where you start. "Back-end IT Support" would be more accurate.
419 scams began long before most people were using email. Around 27 years ago, my relatives in Texas sent us a tape of 60 Minutes when I was in Lagos, and in the opening monologue the person said "Nigeria is the most corrupt country I have ever reported on or from." Then they revealed lots of American businesses were scammed into thinking they were sending an initial round of money for valid business contracts with government or Nigerian companies. These scams have never been a large organized effort by one entity and the addition of email added in a whole new wave of scammers who enjoyed a lower barrier to entry since less overhead was needed and they could still enjoy enough successes with less sophistication. A lot of them are simply young unemployed guys killing time in internet cafes. In the late 90s the USPS and Secret Service both already had websites warning about 419 scams and although most people are only familiar with the cheesy emails, there is a history of massive amounts of dollars being siphoned out through a wide variety of storytelling by countless actors.
My understanding is that those young guys in internet cafes are not all just independently doing it, but are working a job doing it. Which I guess I actually did for a summer in Canada when for two weeks I sold magazine subscriptions that also awarded prizes when you subscribed (you never got them).
There was 2-3 people who actually ran the call center and made the real money. My friend worked there longer than me and he found out their names were pseudonyms. I think they eventually shuttered the call center and disappeared one day.
> According to the Slidell Police Department, some of Neu’s co-conspirators actually do live in Nigeria. Neo was the middleman who sent the money to the real brains behind the operation.
I don't know about others here, the scam emails I get (and I get several per week) always claim to be from Burkina Faso, _never_ Nigeria. And it's been like that for years. In fact, despite being pretty good at geography, I can't recall what the capital of Nigeria is, but I can rattle off the capital of Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou) with ease, and even spell it correctly, just from seeing it in all these emails.
Besides the fact that Nigerian scammers often have middlemen in North American and Europe to assist the process, 419 scams have come to be commonly perpetuated from a number of other West African countries besides Nigeria.
Easy answer.... Squares don't know how to sell weed. It's been so underground for so long, walking in a store or searching online comparing prices is both a foreign and weird process. These shops may need to recruit some real hustlers. No different than hiring a sales staff.
