Careers: After speaking with a recruiter who declined to help him on the basis that his current employer is one of her clients, one reader is understandably paranoid. But he needn’t be, Nick Corcodilos asserts. “You’ve met an honest headhunter,” he begins this Ask the headhunter post. “A dishonest one would have recruited you.” That said, Corcodilos asserts, if nervous about the whole thing, our reader could call her back and ask that she keep it quiet. Related: How to judge a headhunter. Tech’s bottom line: This week Apple and Intel, normally publicity darlings both, were a study in contrasts. “In a week when gender issues highlighted the presidential campaign, Apple garnered a basketful of good press,” Bill Snyder writes in Apple shines while Intel gives itself a black eye. Intel, meanwhile, left the One Laptop Per Child playground — and brought its $12 million ball home. “Talk about a bozo PR move. Intel already is seen in many quarters as a predatory bully. Now the giant chipmaker is taking candy from babies, as it were.” That move has Snyder likening Intel and rival AMD to Microsoft and Linux. From the Test Center: “In serious security geek circles, you may get picked on for using Core Impact because it is so simple, but then again you’re likely to have more free time to think of retorts,” Victor Garza and Charles D. Herring write. They’re referring to Core Impact 7.5, the network security assessment tool’s latest incarnation, which brings anti-phishing features, a new UI, dashboard and improved reporting. Read the full review. “There’s one shortcoming we spotted: Once a client Trojan is in place, it tries to connect to Core Impact only once; if Impact isn’t available when the exploit is first executed, the potential compromise is lost.” Related coverage: Core won an InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award. Careers