CompTIA lobbies AGAINST right to repair - Fuck them
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Indeed. But their creds are entry level, and they expire.
If you're boomer enough it's possible to have lifetime CompTIA certificates.
The fuck is Comptia?
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CompTIA is an information technology certification authority. What they do is give tests for money. Those tests "certify" that you have enough knowledge to pass said test.
There are many certifications that they have. The CompTIA A+ being the basic one that they are pushing into technical high school now. Security+ and Network+ round out the bottom tier.
It used to be (7ish years ago) that if you passed it once, it was permanent.
Now, if you get certified, you have to renew, or go up the chain, in order to keep renewed.
It is used to indicate that you have the bare minimum technical knowledge to actually look at a computer and understand that it isn't entirely magic.
I got my A+ years ago to prove that I wasn't completely tech illiterate when I was job hunting.
The guys who certify the guys who repair lobbying against people repairing their own shit? Surprising.
Yeah, the cut off date is January 1st, 2011. Anything before that doesn't expire.
This guy is a fucking idiot. If he wasn’t retarded and did any prior research at all he would’ve known that A+ certification is worthless. They ask basic bitch questions that literally any human being with 2 brain cells can answer. The whole point of a A+ certificate is to pad your resume, that’s it. Everyone knows this. This is generallly why most people skip A+ and go straight into Net+ or Sec+ because they actually prove you know a trade. Only watch the first minute of this video and I already know this guy is a tard. Getting an A+ cert is like graduating kindergarten then expecting people to give a shit. and why the hell would a repair man need an A+ cert?
I’m not even going to get into reason why the lobby for less access to their certifications because that’s obvious. But I can of someone needs me too.
I’m not even going to get into reason why the lobby for less access to their certifications because that’s obvious. But I can of someone needs me too.
I agree with what you say about the A+ cert but I don't know about Security+ or Network+ really being much better than A+ to be honest. I have A+, Security+, Network+, Server+ and Linux+ (I had an employer who would pay for testing and let you study on the clock so I just went wild) and with the exception of Linux+ they were all pretty damn easy. I don't work in IT anymore but if I did I doubt I would even put them on my resume.
And as an aside the reason that Linux+ was difficult was because it had a lot of questions about obscure flags for obscure commands that I'd never even heard of. Things like:
"When using the jot command, what flag would print a word repetitively?"
-b
-r
-s
-c
When did you take the certification exam for Sec+ and Net+ or when was the last time you study for them or review the concepts? I guarantee you that the standards are drastically different from what is was back then to what it is now.
2008. Yeah that was a while ago so I will certainly grant you that in the years since they might have revamped things and made the tests more difficult. If they did then good for them.
Security and Network concepts and standards change every 2-3 years. For example, Just back in 2016 (or 15?) SHA-1 used to be the standard hashing algorithm. If you use that today you would be called a massive retard and laughed by everyone considering how easy it is to crack that.
Imagine having an A+ cert from the days of the Pentium 2.
>Imagine having to pay money to renew proof that you know the difference between a CPU and a GPU.
IIRC he said it was an requirement to get certified as a Lenovo authorised repair shop.
Times change. Things that were required then aren’t now and him sperging about how “back in my day” and how CompTIA certs are useless is laughable and makes himself look uninformed.
This is surprising to me. The core of the "But muh security" argument against right to repair is based on the idea of security through obscurity. I'm in the middle of reading the Sixth edition Security+ book (which I should be doing instead of reading KF) and it defines security through obscurity (in the first chapter I might add) as a false notion.
Did this lobbyist not read the book? I say, with sarcasm dripping from my words.
Did this lobbyist not read the book? I say, with sarcasm dripping from my words.
CompTIA's sucking Apple's cock. The right to repair is not only the only ethical position to take, it's also the position any real hacker would have. For CompTIA to hand out the most basic level of all hacker certs (Security+) and take a position against the very ethos which drives all hackers is just stupid.
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