<p><pre><code> I am a fresh graduate and not much of a programmer.
I love the Unix environment though and have been hacking </code></pre>
around with the likes of Solaris and Ubuntu poring over the
plethora of documentations available. I seek to attain a
certification in say Solaris 10 and also probably Red hat
which is more commercial. But I have come across these ethical
hacking certifications which I found to be rather expensive.
But I need fellow hacker opinions on how I should go about
these certifications. Are these legit and do they have
placements ? I intend to make a career in network security.
Please advice
Depends what you want.<p>If by 'hacker' you mean security, then there are certs for that. Or start hanging around, reading and practicing security stuff.<p>If by 'hacker' you mean a good programmer (that's probably what the hacker in hackernews means), then you don't need a certificate for that. Just do lots of programming.