About Me
My name is Spencer, sp3nx0r, or the Securimancer, and I’m a builder turned breaker turned back builder. Been in the security industry for almost 20 years (wow, I’m old) and racked up all the possible titles. Now I’m just trying to make the world a better place… My Journey Schooling and Early Days I came out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a BS degree in General Engineering. It’s no longer called that, but instead has morphed into “Systems Engineering and Design”, which makes sense as I thought (as did a lot of people as the top answer in their name change FAQ) that this was the undecided engineer. I liked computers, grew up tinkering with our family’s early DOS and Win3.1 home computers. My dad was a software engineer at E-Systems turned Raytheon, seemed like a fine career. I didn’t much care for physical things in the land of Electrical Engineering, but I sure did love software. So I took CompSci and Computer Engineering classes along with legal, business, and the weed out courses of the other engineering disciplines. ...