You know you’re a security pro when…

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Jun 6, 20081 min

Roger grimes offers up many an instance in which to tell if you’re a true computer security professional, or just an IT guy who handles security.

Here’s a taste: You spend airport downtime dreaming up ways to circumvent TSA security — and you’ve come up with several can’t-miss terrorist ideas that even Jack Bauer couldn’t stop.

And another: You lock your screensaver with twice as much insistence when security friends are around than when strangers are, because you’re not nearly as worried about a stranger’s intentions.

Okay, Okay. I’ll give you one more: You loath government interference with the Internet because you know they will only mess it up more and not fix the problem (see CAN-SPAM Act).

That’s it, because I’d rather not spoil the fun to be had at Are you a computer security professional?