(August 18, 2012 at 9:10 am)5thHorseman Wrote: A touch off topic, but are you looking to go on to a Phd/Dphil once youre finished you're masters, T?No, I've been working full-time for the past year, and I'm pretty much settled on my career for now. At this point I'd see doing a PhD or something equivalent as a waste of my time, since it's 4-5 years and the pay is terrible. After it, I have a doctorate, sure, but what am I going to do with it? Hardly anyone who makes it in the computer security field has a PhD; we are all people who have built careers and did cool stuff on the side.
I'd rather spend that same amount of time doing a job I love and getting promoted in the company I work for, whilst doing cool things on the side. At my company we have a 25% rule, where 25% of your time is to be spent on researching / developing something that interests you. At the moment, I'm working with a colleague on an application that can scan entire networks for interesting data, but my boss has told me I can continue working on my MSc Fuzzing tool during company time, as long as they can show it (and me) off from time to time (I'd keep all the intellectual property rights, etc.)
