Re: FW: application for an employment

[Matthias Güntert <MatzeGuentert () gmx de>]

Hello Matt, list-members,

thank you very much for all your advices. So far I have finished my
application and sent it out _without_ having mentioned anything about my
scanning activities. We will see what's gonna happen. Maybe if I am
getting invited to a job interview I will mention it, or ask them if
they are interested in some demonstration of my skills. This would be
the right time to show off the information leakage.  

> 1) Is what you did to prepare for the interview legal in your country/province?  
> I suspect it is, since Germany has pretty reasonable InfoSec laws, but you want to be sure.  

I am living in Germany and I am no lawyer too, but I don't think that
scanning or information gathering is illegal. Sometimes a lot of
information about the internal network can be found out by simply
reading the 'about us' sections on websites.

> Doing something illegal to prep for an interview is a good way to get kicked out.

Yes, this is true for sure. But if the university offers domain-name
services and it's wrong configured to hide the intrant domain names, why
should it be illegal to access those names? I fully agree that it's not
very helpful to use an illegal activity as an argument to get hired. 

Thanks again. 

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen

                Matthias Güntert

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