so www.ec-council.org belongs to the organization responsible for certifying information security professionals with, for example, the CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) cert, which is certainly considered desirable by many employers, although it enjoys far less prestige among security professionals themselves.
reason being; its kiiiiiind of a bullshit cert. very little of the knowledge certification implies is contemporary or street level, so the certification basically turns into an exersize in memorization, as opposed to the CISA or CISSP certs, which actually require a strong knowledge of management and policy to obtain, or certs like the OSCP which require a demonstrated grasp of offensive tools and tactics to obtain. mind you, its not the worst cert out there, but it implies a level of competence that it fails to deliver on, in some opinions, including my own.
anyway, the question of whether or not ec-council.org certification is valid or not is now moot, since someone *broke into their servers* and harvested thousands of documents, including Snowden's passport (see pic below) and documents/passports belonging to everyone who ever applied for the certification.
to quote the attacker:
“owned by certified unethical software security professional
Obligatory link: http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/ec-council/ -Eugene Belford
P.S It seems like lots of you are missing the point here, I’m sitting on thousands of passports belonging to LE (and .mil) officials”
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