{"id":930,"date":"2012-12-27T17:13:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T17:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewhope.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=930"},"modified":"2022-05-14T18:51:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T17:51:42","slug":"does-hacking-have-its-place-for-an-it-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewhope.co.uk\/Blog\/does-hacking-have-its-place-for-an-it-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Does hacking have it&#8217;s place for an IT engineer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I don&#8217;t know if there are others like me, but being a bit of a geek when it comes to IT and IT related subjects I find the whole idea of hacking interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Understandably there are bad reputations for hackers out there but I&#8217;m more interested in the legitimate side of hacking (aka white-hat \/ ethical hacking)<\/p>\n<p>People are making good use of their geeky knowledge and being security experts for companies, being paid big money to put their skills to 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