Pity poor MS Security workers
MS Security rated 6th worst job in science.
Spare a thought this month for the staff of the Microsoft Security Response
Center who, according to Popular Science magazine, have the sixth worst
job in science. The science-for-the-masses publication compiles an annual
list of those working in 'science' that it feels should be recognised for
doing the jobs that nobody else would want to do.
In the 2007 list, working in Microsoft's Security Response Center was
ranked better only than hazmat divers, oceanographers, elephant
vasectomists, garbologists and carcass preparers.
In justifying the MS
employees' rather surprising ranking, the magazine explained that the staff
receive approximately 100,000 messages per year, each reporting a possible
security failure in one of MS's products. Popular Science rates working to
fix the bugs in MS's software as 'tedious', and also claims that working in
the MS Security Response Center 'is like wearing a big sign that reads
"Hack Me".'
All together now, one two three: ahh...
01 July 2007
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