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The Credit Card Game

Been reading up on several sites and watching some YouTube videos on different schemes with Credit Cards to earn Miles, Points or even Cash back.

Looking at my Credit Cards

Many credit cards offer some type of signup offer, either for Miles, Points of cash back depending on a specific spend in the first few months.

Delta Reserve American Express Card

The New Delta SkyMiles® Reserve American Express Card

Earn 80,000 bonus miles and 20,000 MQMs after spending $5,000 in the first 3 months. Earn an additional 20,000 bonus miles upon your first card renewal date. (offer Expires 4/1/2020)

This card has a $550 annual fee, which is justifiable to me if you use the travel benefits.

Travel Benefits:
  • MQD Waiver (Spend 25k to get Delta Platinum if you have MQM/MQS)
  • Complimentary Delta Sky Club® Access (Costs $545 or 54,500 Sky Miles)
  • NEW Complimentary Centurion Lounge® Access (Must be Flying on
  • Delta and the Reserve Card or have the Amex Platinum Card)
  • Upgrade Priority for Medallion Members (No Value as TYS has way too many Diamonds)
  • Companion Pass (Value up to $400+)

I personally have the Delta Reserve card, picked it up in 2015 when I started traveling regularly for work. I use Delta from my regional airport because they were the better carrier flying from their. I usually fly through ATL and use the Sky Club during my layovers usually, but they are generally packed and not a great place to visit during the day mot times.

We have limited flights to larger hubs out of the Knoxville Airport:

Delta AA United Allegiant Frontier
ATL CLT ORD DIA DIA
DTW DFW IAH SFB MCO
MSP ORD DIA PIE
LGA DCA IAD FLL
PHL EWR PBI
MIA LAS
EWR

I used the American Express Centurion lounge in CLT just after it opened, and it was a lavish place with excellent food options. CLT is not a major hub for Delta so they do not have a Sky Club lounge so the Centurion Lounge is nice to have.

Centurion Lounges (as of 3/5/2020)

Current Locations: Comming Soon:
CLT DEN
DFW JFK
HKG LAX
LAS LHR
LGA
MIA
PHL
PHX
SEA
SFO

So the addition of the Centurion Lounge access to my Delta Reserve Card got me to looking at the American Express Platinum card. They both have the $550 annual fee, and have similar features.

American Express Platinum Card

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Earn 60,000 75,000 Membership Rewards® Points after you use your new Card to make $5,000 in purchases in your first 3 months

Travel Benefits:
Lounge Access: (Worth $550 to me as Sky Club is $545 and the others are worth $5+ for sure)
  • Centurion Lounges
  • American Express International Lounges
  • Delta Sky Club lounges (when flying Delta)
  • Priority Pass Select membership (not including restaurants)
  • Escape Lounges
  • Airspace Lounge (SFO)

Up to $200 in Uber credits each year (Might use some of this so $100 value)
Up to $200 airline fee credit (Might be worth $200 value)
Up to $100 in Saks Fifth Avenue credit each year (Not sure I would ever use it)
Marriott Gold and Hilton Gold status (No Value to me currently)

Comparing Amex Platinum vs Delta Reserve (the Points Guy)

The Platinum Card from American Express Delta SkyMiles Reserve American Express Card
Welcome bonus 60,000 points after you spend $5,000 in purchases in your first three months. Terms apply. 80,000 miles and 20,000 Medallion® Qualification Miles (MQMs) after you spend $5,000 in purchases in your first three months

An additional 20,000 bonus miles after your first card membership anniversary. Terms apply.
Earning rates 5x on flights booked directly with airlines or with American Express Travel

5x on prepaid hotels booked on amextravel.com

1x on everything else

 3x on eligible purchases with Delta

1x on everything else
TPG’s valuation of points/miles 2 cents each 1.2 cents each
Annual fee $550 $550
Foreign transaction fees None None
Lounge access Access to many lounges through the American Express Global Lounge Collection including:

  • Centurion Lounges
  • American Express International Lounges
  • Delta Sky Club lounges (when flying Delta)
  • Priority Pass Select membership (not including restaurants)
  • Escape Lounges
  • Airspace Lounge (SFO)
 Access to Delta Sky Club lounges (when flying Delta)

Two, one-time guest passes for the Delta Sky Club (when flying Delta)

Access to Centurion Lounges (when flying Delta)
Other standout benefits Up to $200 in Uber credits each year

Up to $200 airline fee credit

Up to $100 in Saks Fifth Avenue credit each year

Marriott Gold and Hilton Gold status

Access to Amex Fine Hotels and Resorts

Global Entry or TSA PreCheck application fee credit every 4-4.5 years

 Domestic First Class, Delta Comfort+ or Domestic Main Cabin round-trip companion certificate each year upon renewal of your card

Status Boost, which allows you to earn MQMs through spending on your card

First checked bag free, priority boarding, inflight savings and access to complimentary upgrades on Delta

Medallion qualification dollar waiver

So looking over the two cards, with the Delta Reserve I am locked into flying with Delta to get the most benefit from the card, but If I switched to the Amex Platinum I could use any airline to get benefits and can transfer my points to any airline I want to use. Amex Platinum could give more lounge access privileges depending on who I fly with and where I am traveling to. As I only get access to lounges at layovers and day of departure locations with either card. I do have Priority Pass Lounge access (10 passes a year) from my Hilton Surpass card.

I guess the biggest drawback from the Amex Platinum is that it will make it harder to gain status on any one airline, being I have been Delta Diamond the past 2 years, and Platinum for about 2 years before that. I think I made United Silver once and that was with Marriott Platinum status before the merger.

I also would not use the Amex Platinum to book hotels as I already have the Hilton Surpass card and Marriott Bonvoy Boundless card (Referral Link). They both get me better points options when booking at the hotels directly. Plus the Marriott gives me 15 night credit towards my status. I am currently lifetime Silver with Marriott and just need about 100 nights to make lifetime Gold. About 2 more years and 300 nights to make Lifetime Platinum as well, Hilton I have about 5 years as they did not credit me some previous years as Diamond status for some reason. I have about 5 years and 500 nights accumulated so in another 5 years and 500 nights I will make Lifetime Diamond with Hilton.

I am torn on switching to the Amex Platinum and downgrading my Delta Reserve to another Delta card, or looking at another card to complement my Delta Reserve. Will do some more research and do a follow up post.

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De-Googling my life

I started to remove all most Google products from my day to day life.

Why you may ask, first off they have way to much information about me and my daily routines. Second they have not always been good stewards of personal information they collect.

To start off I removed Google Chrome browser from my devices, and switched over to DuckDuckGo search engine and on occasion will use Microsoft Bing Search engine. This did take sometime to get used to using something other then Google, as their search functions work differently.

I have migrated my email from a Gmail account to a personal hosted email account. This took a lot longer then I originally expected, as some businesses rely solely on email as a primary ID, and their systems do not have the functionality to change this. Some required an email, to get this changed through a manual process, while others just said sorry no can do. The ones who could not change my account I just dropped them and will use something else as they were not really important to me.

I had an Android phone a long time ago (2008), I stopped using it as it was more of a hassle to work with then other phones I had used in the past. I know many people will say Android is the best phone OS and there is no comparison. My issue was there was no standards across the environment, and there were so many malicious apps in the stores then I wanted to deal with.

I actually found out that I had not been using many of Google Services as they came after something else I had been using and it was not any better then what I used.

Primarily I used Gmail, Calendar, Blogger, Domains, Drive, Voice and Maps.

Google Service NOTES / ISSUES WHAT I USE
Gmail Took a while to move accounts over for different services.BlueHost Hosted Service
Google Contacts Have not really relied on this in sometime as my Phone always was current with contactsApple / iPhone
Google Calendar Automatic add of items to calendar is fully working in othersApple / iPhone
Google Search  Have to learn how to do searches againDuckDuckGo
Bing
Google Maps Google MyMaps – Not found a suitable option
OpenStreetMaps – is basic     		Bing Maps
Apple Maps
Still doing a search for alternatives
Google Analytics Stopped using this a while back after one of their changes made it a painNot using anything currently
Google Drive Moved to OneDrive as I get 1TB of storage already with my Office suiteOneDrive for documents and photos
iCloud for other Apple items
Google Photos Moved to OneDrive OneDrive
Google Docs Moved to OneDrive OneDrive
Google Play Music Have been using Spotify for some time   Spotify
Google Play Movies/TV Think I had like one movie I purchased on GoogleMoviesAnywhere Disney+
Amazon Prime
Netflix
Hulu
Google YouTubeDid not save anything to YouTube, only used it for researchingYeah not sure what to use for this one
Google Play Audiobooks/Books Do not really use Audiobooks , but already had a bunch of books in Kindle and NookAmazon Kindle
Nook
Apple Books
Google Play Store (apps) I use Apple productsApple Store
Google Android I use Apple productsApple IOS
Google’s Android Apps I use Apple products Apple Store
Google Chrome Moved to Firefox as it was a resource hog, worse then other browsersFirefox
Google Domains Used it when I was moving away from 1 and 1 hosting as the price was cheap. Blue Host
Google Hangouts Limited use to friends who had Gmail accountsSlack
WhatsApp
Google Allo Did not have any friends using thisWhatsApp
Signal
Telegram
Google Podcasts I use Apple already Apple
Google Newsstand Never liked Newsstand The Old Reader
Google Wallet Only used it a couple of times, due to not as many places taking it PayPal  
Google Voice Unlock #, costs $3 to port out https://www.google.com/voice/unlock Need to port to new carrier Still looking for somewhere to move my number to 
Google Keep Never really liked thisOneNote
NotePad++  
Google TranslateOnly use this occasionallyScannerTranslate App on phone
Will figure this out next time I need it
Google DuoTried to use this, but did not know anyone using itWebEx – For Work
iPhone FaceTime
Google EarthWas cool at first, but never really had that much of a need for it.Not Using Anything as a replacement
Blogger Platform was not that great, moved to it from an older hosted WordPress, then moved it back to another Hosted WordPressHosted WordPress
WazeLoved this service until Google purchased it, after they acquired it I started having a bunch of issues of it not working or just giving error servers unavailable error. So stopped using it about a year ago. Apple Maps
Not The Best Maps

I started using Google Gmail sometime back in early 2005, when I got an invite from a friend. Had moved away from Hotmail after using it for many years.

I am sure some will mention that I am moving away from Google to another company that may not manage my data all that well. Yes, I have Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple as vendors for my data, but I am not utilizing just one company anymore which was one of my concerns. Albeit that many companies rely on Google for their back-end and have Google Analytics so I will still see some tracking of my searching. I do use Firefox on my devices usually in “Private Window” mode to limit some data collection.

Time will tell if I move back to some of the Google applications, as I am still looking for alternatives. The biggest I seem to have an issue with is the “My Maps” which I like to design travel maps for vacations. I have not found an alternative that does anywhere close to what the Google app does. it relies on Drive and Maps to function so I will need to keep my Google account for the short term. I also do not know what to do with my Google Voice number as I have had it since it was Grand Central and have used it for years as an alternate number to some contacts. Plus I still have five other Gmail accounts I used for various things over the years that I need to keep for the short term until I get them cleared out and all access I used them for moved to my primary or an alternate email account under my control.

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Traveling to NC way to often.

Have been traveling to Mooresville, NC for work for about eleven months now (started in Feb 2019), it is getting a little tiring to visit the same place every week. I fly out on Monday and home on Friday almost every week. To me it is just far enough I do not want to drive the four+ hours one way, especially when I have meetings to go to as soon as I get in on Monday.
 
I have visited a large majority of restaurants in Mooresville, Davidson and surrounding areas, since I have been visiting the area. I was surprised to not be able to find a place to get fried chicken though, well except for the chain places.
 

Places in Mooresville NC:
I have tried several barbecue joints, and have been pleasantly surprised at the food. There is a place called Big Tiny’s that is a Texas style barbecue with some great banana pudding and Shiner Bock in bottles. Another place is called Lancaster’s which is an East North Carolina barbecue with plenty of NASCAR memorabilia all over the place, wings are good as well as the BBQ pork and a decent banana pudding as well.

Have tried Epic Chophouse, which I have visited several times and the food is always excellent. They have several menu items I have loved, one being the Smokin’ Hot Couple and the other is the Mixed Grill. Of course the steaks are great and they have a very good bar with many options on wines and beers. They are known for their deserts as well, which having tried a couple I can say they are great, have heard they are from a local bakery in town. This is my usual go to place when some one I know is coming onsite to visit and say lets do dinner.They require everyone to dress reasonably and men’s shirts must have sleeves. Almost every time I have been there it is packed but have not had an issue getting a table of finding a place in the bar area.

 

Places in Cornelius NC: 
131 Main, which I guess technically is a chain, but they only have four locations three in the Charlotte area and one in Asheville NC. Have only been once, but the food looks great, I tried the Southern Shrimp and Grits and had appetizers of Deviled Eggs and Cast Iron Cornbread. Everything was excellent and I was so stuffed I could not try dessert.

Places in Davidson NC:
Kindred is a great place to eat and is usually packed. Have been several time and have never had anything that was not excellent. The menu is seasonally driven and and is different everyday.
Flatiron Kitchen + Taproom, have been about six time here, and the food is always excellent, and the beer and wine selection is great.
Mesitzo is a Contemporary Mexican restaurant, it is fairly small but has a nice outdoor patio with a view of the downtown area.

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New site!

Moved away from 1and1/IONOS hosting to Blogger, and now moved again to another hosting option. Have been slowly moving away from all things Google over the past several months. Which has not been very easy I have found out. Seems that some sites I have accounts with do not have an easy way to change your email address, which has made me concerned with using them going forward. One big issue I have found is Maps, there is not a real good replacement yet. Apple and Bing maps are OK, but just not as good as Google Maps.

Will see how things go!

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Just Ignore This Post if Your Going on a Cruise

Cruising; plan ahead and ignore the idiots.

I keep seeing people post things like: “Top 10 Cruise Mistakes Only New Cruisers Do”, “Top 10 Worst Mistakes A First-Time Cruiser Makes” while some of these makes sense others are just a vague opinion of the person writing the post.

Opinion Based Items:

What to do on the first day on Board:

This one kind of seem stupid to tell me what you think is best to do on the ship. If people plan ahead they have some idea what is available on the ship and what they might want to do until their room is ready. I usually know what I want to do when boarding the ship, swimming is never one of those things. I do like to walk around checking out the ship, seeing all that is around and orientating myself to where things are. I will window shop at the stores, stop by to where the theaters and restaurants are located.

Bring your swim suite in your carry on to get to the pool early. 

This one I am like no! No one can go to their rooms, so this is the first thing kids will want to do. I always see a packed pool or slide within one hour of people getting on the ship. If that is your thing then do that, I for one will be skipping this.

Eating at the Buffet on the first day is the worst thing to do for some reason or another.

If you want to eat at the buffet then eat the buffet, if you prefer to do a sit down at the one restaurant that is open then go there. Pick the pool side food if that is your thing as well, especially if your at the pool this one is easiest. Everything is packed on the first day as everyone is getting onboard and has nowhere to go. Do what makes the most sense to you and your family for when and where to eat, there is no one thing that works best for everyone.

Things that should be common sense:

Not bringing ID/Passport ETC….

Ok, if your that stupid to not know what is required to have for each person in your party when traveling anywhere then that is your fault. If your leaving the country then you need to verify what will work for each person as a form of ID to get into the country visiting. This is usually validated when arriving to the ship to get checked in for the cruise, but you should have planned by checking on the Ships website to required documentation. Ask if you are not sure, don’t just assume everything will work out.

Plan for the worst when traveling to and from the cruise:

I do agree that you should never plan to travel to port on the same day your leaving on your cruise. If you do anything, plan to travel a day or more before your cruise is scheduled to leave. This will save you a lot bigger headache of missing the cruise if you have travel delays. Have been on several flights with people who are freaking out because the plane is delayed, and they either are not getting to their destination today or will miss their connection all together. Screaming at the flight attendant or customer attendant will not get you much.

Plan to either get a late return flight or stay an extra day, as there is no guarantee the ship will dock at the scheduled time for you to get off the ship and to your flight. Have seen people trying to push their way off the ship to get to the airport to catch a flight. many of the other shipmates have plans just like you but scheduled accordingly to make sure to be able to get home.

Final notes:

Plan ahead, don’t think everything will work out all the time. I have seen even seasoned cruisers make this mistake. No one can make your time terrible except you! Things don’t always work the way it is planned. Take a deep breath and see what will work instead. Having had a shore excursion canceled the exact time we were supposed to leave, there were several people screaming a the ship crew and complaining how terrible they have maid their day, etc… You know these people have nothing to do with the cancellation. Take a minute, regroup and then plan to do something else, like jsut waling around to the shops or taking local transportation to some place.
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Traveling around the world

I travel a lot for work, and have been reading several travel site blogs as of lately.

Some are down right stupid and a waste of time, while a few are useful with relevant inforamtion.
None of them are 100% accurate, and all have some biased toward one thing or another.

Blogs I do like to read often:
https://thepointsguy.com/
https://www.flyertalk.com/
https://millionmilesecrets.com
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/ 
https://www.frugaltravelguy.com/

I know there are more, but these are the ones I read the most. Most of them have the same content on bonus points/miles and card to use. 

My preferences for travel:
Flight: Delta  (Platinum)
(I travel out of a regional airport and the other carriers have screwed me a time or two)
Hotel: Hilton (Diamond), Marriott (Gold), Hyatt (Discoverist)
(Some have asked my why I have 3 hotel preferences, and I have always told them none of these brands are perfect in all cities or have a good hotel in all cities I have visited.)
Car: Hertz (President Circle), National
(have switched back and forth between these two over the years)

Packing:
It does crack me up on some of the posts on sites telling people what to pack, how to pack and what to bring. There is no one way to travel, one way to pack, and it will depend on the person what they need to bring along with them.

Having traveled extensively for the past 10 years for work and military, I can say I have defined my own plans for packing and what to bring. It does not align to most of the blogs sites, and works well for me, but may not work well for others. I pack in cubes and fold my clothes, many sites recommend rolling your clothes to make more space. I have never been able to make add any extra space, and it makes my clothes more wrinkled then me just folding it neatly.

I have a separate toiletry bag that I keep all my items in, it is just easier to have duplicates, and just fill up the items as I need to after my return home. I do have the same mouthwash bottle that is exactly 3oz in size and I just refill it as needed. I also have a decent supply of small toothpaste tubes, as everyone in the family gets one from the dentist after their teeth cleaning, and never uses them.

I generally take a small 21″ Wegner SwissGear suitcase, that I have had for a many years, it was not expensive (maybe $80 max) and I am in need of a replacement soon. I do not carry on my suitcase, and generally check it (I get checked 3 bags free). Which I have been ridiculed for many times by so called expert travelers. However, having been screwed many times (Primarily by United and AA) on waiting for plane side checked bags (Smaller regional planes), and missing a connection due to them taking forever getting the bags back to me, I have always checked my bag since.

Flights:
I prefer Delta as my main carrier for flights, I like that my miles never expire, and I have had little issues with them compared to AA and United out of TYS. I travel out of a regional airport, so am limited to AA, United, Delta, Frontier, and Allegiant and will usually connect into another airport to get almost anywhere. A majority of the flights I am on are CRJ700/900 and maybe a MD88, which is why I check a bag as I do not like to plane side check a bag, and then wait to get it back at the next airport, and hope to make my next flight.

Hotel:
I prefer Hilton brand hotels, I have a few I like best out of all of them. I would book Embassy Suites hands down if they were available in the area I am needing to be in. They provide a two room suite, and an evening managers reception, as well as a cook to order breakfast. I have usually found them to be better priced (not always) then say a Hampton Inns which is a lower value Hilton Brand for some reason. I do stay at some Marriott properties when I need to, some times it is just to keep my status with them, other times it is there is not much else available at a reasonable price or in the location I need to be. When I am able to I will stay at Hyatt, I do like their hotels but they tend to not be in many locations I need to be in. I used to stay at Holiday Inn hotels, but they have not kept up their hotels and seem to be lacking these days.
 
Rental Car:
Have been using Hertz as it is just easy to book from the Delta web site after booking my flight. Their website and mobile app suck, but I like getting the Delta Points for booking as I never get a rental car when I go on vacation so would not use the points. I used to always book National as I liked the walk up and drive off method. I just pick the car that works for me on the trip and drive to the exit and am on my way. I get the same service with Hertz now that I am President Circle, as long as the location has that option.

So, pick what works best for you and stop listening to all those blogs telling you what you must do when traveling. We all have different styles and opinions so no one thing works for everyone.

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Starting again….

Well it has been a while since I have posted anything, planning to get back to posting once in a while. Hopefully not pissing off my current employer in the process, but guess they will get over that, or I will be finding a new endeavor.

Stopped posting some items as I have had several confrontations on publicly available news articles I posted on LinkedIn and twitter by several people at my current employer.

Started focusing more on pentesting in my spare time to keep my technical skills up, as my current work is rather boring and non-technical. Started working on Hack The Box systems, in my spare time to get back into the groove. Thinking of moving back to pentesting and away from compliance work, it used to be fun, but that feeling has been long gone.

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PCI PA/P2PE certifications

Took the Payment Application (PA) Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) exam back in March, just a couple of weeks after taking the Point to Point Encryption (P2PE) QSA exam. Surprisingly they both seemed fairly easy tests, the P2PE was a little harder since I had to study up on some crypto information.

Had been trying for a few months to assist with some P2PE assessment work, but it seems that is not as easy as I had hoped. Had asked to shadow some people or assist on small projects, but got nothing. I then asked to work on PA assessment, was invited out to the Colorado office to learn the internal processes, and go over some documents. Was asked if I was interested in joining the PA team by hte managing principal.

Finally decided to stop trying to get into the P2PE team, and took an opportunity on the PA team. Applied for a Senior Consultant position, but was only transferred over as a IT security Consultant. Not exactly sure what the deal is with promoting me to Senior, especially since I have more experience then most Senior Consultants that I have worked with so far. But that battle is for another day.

Will see how things go with doing the PA assessments, they do not seem to be very difficult, most of the testing is easy. The pentesting portion is kind of a joke, as they do only minor tests against SQLi, XSS, CSRF and buffer overflows. Almost makes me miss doing the pentesting stuff, and the exploiting software vulnerabilities.

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Starting off 2017 right! (I hope…..)

Well its 2017 already, and I am not sure where 2016 went.

Last year I was extremely busy, traveling about every week and multiple ROC’s due weekly for my previous company. Never had enough time to actually do my job well or even think about fixing the issues that we had. Now that I am at Coalfire, I have plenty of time to do my job, with tons of resources to help me out. I am not traveling as much, which I sort of miss, hope that changes a little starting soon. Working from home is a little weird, not sure it is something I really like, miss the interactions with other people. Not that I do not like my family, its just getting out of the house for a little while and talking to other people with similar interests. Will be trying to get former colleagues to do lunch once in a while to at least try to keep up with whats going on.

This year is starting off fairly decent for me, since I am getting to attend two different training classes. First one is an ISO 27001 Lead Auditor certification course. I will be heading to Colorado for a few days. The class was supposed to be for junior associates that needed a certification to allow them to get their QSA. I asked if their was space I would like to attend, and I guess there was room for me. The second class is PCI P2PE certification, which will be a little harder from my perspective. Most of my cryptography experience is military related and not really geared towards the commercial sector. If I pass this course, I have been asked if I wanted to take the PA-DSS course and then possibly the PA-P2PE course. Since they are in need of people to assist in that area, I said why not. I am always willing to take training classes, certifications never hurt anyone.

So it looks like my first full ROC I am lead on will be a client that they have had for a while. This should be fairly nice to get to learn their methodology, and show my manager, I am able to do the work. I was brought in as a consultant, and not a senior consultant. That was something I had decided to do, I originally had interviewed for a senior security consultant position, but since they were willing to pay me the same for either position, I took the lower level position. I am sure some are going WTF, I would never do that. Well, I am more than capable to be a senior consultant, but If I come in as a junior level person and can show that I am very good at my job, I will more than likely get a promotion or possibly opportunities to do other stuff. Which is sort of what is happening already with the certification courses.

Well 2017, lets hope things keep rolling along smoothly…..   

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ARCYBER Puzzle

Had a former colleague post a cipher puzzle on a Slack channel I hang out on.

http://www.recruitahacker.net/Puzzle

I figured I would give it a try, since I like to do puzzles.
The site was a link to an ARCYBER web site:

Looking at the cipher text, I was like you have to be kidding me. This is too easy, so I ran it through a script I made a few years back to break vigenère ciphers for another puzzle I had worked.

While the script is not perfect, it was able to decode this cipher text.

Eexl fmoi! 
Well done!

Jabnh gsl’ze decbjrx lvtv, gsl uak hctf xyw gvltpj 
Since you’re reading this, you may have the skills

inp mqrjzrlwzq bs awiz tjc Bvdq hpdu! 
and motivation to join the Army team
Pvirz mqpf esgie bwyi xofeprjec xiexzi nqtt ATAZFVJ.
Learn more about your potential future with ARCYBER.

KEY:
iamacybersoldier

So putting the key into the website you get the full response.

You got a link to email someone that you solved the puzzle.

So I was like sure, what could it hurt, might get an offer to apply for some cool jobs with the government (not really).

The response from my email to solving the puzzle.

Congratulations on solving the puzzle and for your interest in the Army’s cyber mission. We ask that you fill out a form found at http://www.goarmy.com/info/send1/?iom=GT45-FY16-ACNP-OT-XXX-XX-XXX-CP-XX-X-XXX   so we can continue discussions about how you can best fit into our Army’s cyber professional workforce. We thank you for your inquiry and are committed to providing information as it becomes available. You may check out our website for the latest cyber career field updates at www.arcyber.army.mil.
v/r,
Mike Milord
Public Affairs Specialist
Army Cyber Command
8605 6th Armored Cavalry Road
Fort Meade, MD 20755
301-833-2007
michael.o.milord.civ@mail.mil

It takes to the Army website to request information to join.
I figure since I already have 24 years of service in the military they will not want me.