general

[meager kernel]

Can you tell the list of commands

[eternal mango]

They gave you one 👀

[meager kernel]

Lemme see

A sec

[eternal mango]

😄

🥳

How is it the end of the year already

[scenic maple]

since you are not here i would just say the list

• check if the bluez package is installed and it contains the protocol stack
• bluez-utils for bluetoothctl
• check if the kernal module is loaded btusb is the driver you need so
  • check lsmod | grep btusb
  • if not loaded then load the kernal module sudo modprobe btusb
• once done enable bluetooth.service so sudo systemctl enable bluetooth.service

https://tenor.com/view/cat-eating-watermelon-watermelon-cat-eating-cat-kitty-gif-2333377029565336946

[scenic maple]

i did many things this year so i guess it went well

[eternal mango]

Things did happen

[devout sail]

And he said he'll be online today for hacking
He lied

[scenic maple]

hbu

[scenic maple]

he never said he will be online on discord for hacking

[devout sail]

He did

[scenic maple]

ow he did

the more you know

[devout sail]

@supple plume what u hacking alone

Oh i forgot timezone

[scenic maple]

its 9 am

where he lives

[devout sail]

Sleep in weekday is soo nice

[scenic maple]

also

[eternal mango]

Rrrrrrace condition?

[scenic maple]

could be 😩

or he tapped some keys and turned it off via keyboard shotcuts

[devout sail]

Golam u arch too?

[scenic maple]

yes homie

https://tenor.com/view/arch-arch-linux-btw-i-use-arch-btw-zyzz-gif-25959390

[devout sail]

You don't like rice cuz it's waste of time
Yet use arch and fix something every day

[scenic maple]

i have never fixed anything since installation

trust me on that

[devout sail]

👁️👁️

[meager kernel]

@scenic maple can I add you as a friend and dm you some screenshots of the output?

[scenic maple]

i would use windows but i dont want to setup shit
so thats out
and i would use debian but i would have to modify it to change it as sid and end up with frakenestein debian

[scenic maple]

ye sure

so arch is the least amount of setup for me

[devout sail]

Why change sid?

[scenic maple]

cause i need latest tools

like npm

the browser

burpsuite

as long as the the 10 tools i use everyday i use are there i really dont care

[devout sail]

Hmm I dunno any of that
The default ones doesn't give least version?

[scenic maple]

computers are meant to be used to solve problems

[scenic maple]

no

debian deosnt give npm latest

or any other tool latest

which is why its stable and rock solid

[devout sail]

Hmm i have the testing version
Maybe thats why i didn't notice

[scenic maple]

ye you have sid

thats the testing version

[devout sail]

But well i use like 3 apps

[scenic maple]

well there you go then you would use the os that would run those 3 apps as effortlessly as possible

[devout sail]

I'm not cat dev

[scenic maple]

if its windows then its windows

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/kekuwu-kekw-anime-gif-10260786903607553889

[eternal mango]

https://tenor.com/view/kitten-cute-fight-fluffy-gif-6973696620731706651

[devout sail]

Im finally free from windows

[warm dome]

u got the new pc?

[scenic maple]

peak engineering

[devout sail]

Laptop

PC can't afford yet
But next year I'll get

[warm dome]

what specs u end up going with

[eternal mango]

WSL did drive me mad with qemu and arm64 repos

Some weeeeird stuff there

[scenic maple]

funfact i have a thinkpad like laptop from dell and it came with ubuntu

[eternal mango]

Might need to update it

[devout sail]

Hmm Ryzen 7 with 16gb ram (upgrade to 64)
And half tb SSD (upgradeable to 1) < couldn't find the 1tb version under budget

[eternal mango]

Had the same with an XPS13 years ago

[scenic maple]

it lasted ling time right?

[eternal mango]

Downside was it didn't come with the fingerprint reader

Oh yeah, it still works

[scenic maple]

🔥

[eternal mango]

I just work from home mostly now

[scenic maple]

chad thinkpad enjoyer

[eternal mango]

and got my HP X360

Prefer the HP tbh, battery life beats the XPS13 twice over

[warm dome]

hasnt that been your case for a few years now haha

[devout sail]

In few months I'll get new SSD
It's better than current laptop so will be fun to hack and not ask other to crack my hashes 💀

[scenic maple]

i wish they start making buky thinkpads again

[warm dome]

bruh that woulda been rough

[eternal mango]

Well yeah, but when I do travel I still have a preferred laptop 😄

[warm dome]

laptops just so much more convienant ngl, just went back to a laptop not long ago

[eternal mango]

Agreed, due to massive monitor and little desk I'd need to change one to work from a laptop without having half the monitor blocked

..or just leave the laptop dangling

[warm dome]

bruh

[eternal mango]

I love my wide boy too much

I can't get rid of it

[warm dome]

i started moving things to rust and currently feel like im developing mood swings haha so quickly i go from "this is amazingly convienant" to c would of had this done by now

[devout sail]

[warm dome]

i've landed on throwing my c code into claude to see how it handles things then trying it myself

[eternal mango]

When it's got a structural base as such to work off of, be it for dev, reversing or whatever.. it's quite useful

As in, when it doesn't have to make shit up

[warm dome]

oh 100% it is

actually surprised me with how well it can reverse something

[eternal mango]

Got some workflows on that which have been very useful

..gotta rework all of that now mind, as the word is XML structured flows is the way 🤣

But eh they still work

[warm dome]

i've literally dropped reversing challenges into it asked to get a flag and its taken less then 2mins

for like some really difficult ones

its kinda insane for reversing

ai is becoming one of those things i hate and love at the same time

takes alot of fun out of things, but man its convenient

[supple plume]

I just woke up

[eternal mango]

Not finished, but got some automation which hooks up Ghidra for export of sections and data, then goes through step by step "humanising"

(for the lols)

[supple plume]

Ill be doing hecker things

[eternal mango]

but the reversing workflows I use are more targeted to exploring specific singular functions

[warm dome]

thats hillarious

[eternal mango]

Makes me realise how shit I am

[warm dome]

nah honestly its such a deep thing now, i thought i was pretty decent at reversing untill i had a stripped rust binary thrown at me not long ago haha

[eternal mango]

https://github.com/g0blinResearch/endorfun_reversing

That's when I got started playing with it

Reversing a game from the 90s to figure out how it stitched together audio samples

[warm dome]

i love how all the ai projects run these little emojis now haha ⭐⭐

[eternal mango]

Hahahah yeah

[warm dome]

and thats mad as

i did something similar but with shooting software

they wanted to try to setup new hardware with old software

but was like ms dos level old

[eternal mango]

😮

[warm dome]

didnt really get many results but learned quite a bit

[warm dome]

also heads up but if you use github copilot with opus4.5 limit is much higher

rather then going straight with claude

atleast from my experience

[eternal mango]

I just use my Anthropic account

I've spent enough on messing about that my limits mean no issue

🙈

That said it was't as much as I thought it was

[warm dome]

surely could become a "company" expense for research purposes

[eternal mango]

Nah most of it is personal work

If I use it more for work then yeah I'd bill it to work

[grand comet]

Merry Christmas hackers! 🤗

[eternal mango]

Besides

I should really start burning in our GPU clusters

🤣

They've not felt my wrath yet

[warm dome]

yeah for sure, but it's still quite interesting seeing the limits, currently im trying to use a rust dll in place of using c dll's and well its working for the most part...

so i've given the task to claude and my usage is disappearing quickly

[eternal mango]

I mean Opus

I wouldn't use that every day

Sonnet is usually plenty

[warm dome]

yeah its brutal on usage but i find the results are probably 10x of sonnet on my stuff i do

[eternal mango]

Sometimes yeah.. it does better in some tasks, and thinks too much in others

[warm dome]

yeah it doesnt always pull through but when it does 🔥 🔥 🔥

[eternal mango]

Gemini I've found nice for the odd tasks that requires very large context and conceptualization

Cost wise that's about the same as Opus, maybe a bit more

[warm dome]

yeah i've leaned into using github copilot now tho there 5x value is like 1/4 claude price

[eternal mango]

..but again, Gemini can get lost in itself, circling round and round in the same reasoning loop

Urgh anyway

They are useful tools

[warm dome]

i find gemini doesnt remember shit most the time

but otherwise its great

[eternal mango]

Oh yeah, Gemini is a one shot thing for when it's a whole codebase that needs considered

Pretty mental how it can achieve that.

[warm dome]

will be pretty interesting to see how it goes in the future tho

[eternal mango]

Well, we went from this...

https://tenor.com/view/will-smith-eating-spaghetti-will-smith-spaghetti-ai-gif-12546117032276153065

..to whatever we see today

In what.. two years?

[warm dome]

yeah its wild

[eternal mango]

Now I'm not circle jerking all the LLMs out there

[cerulean bloom]

I think there will be a stagnation soon

[eternal mango]

They have their uses

But it's damn crazy what has been achieved

Humans are still important.

lol

[warm dome]

well they reckon its hit technical limits for costs to do things now, so its all about optimizing stuff now

but still insane stuff

[eternal mango]

Let's see in 6 months

😄

You played with any local training / fine tuning at all?

[warm dome]

a little but not enough to know what im doing, been to focused on masters and certs lately

+throw htb academy on top

[cerulean bloom]

ahhhhhh, grinding?

[eternal mango]

Fair enough. Tried a little too, very small models for pattern recognition

Success was... varied 🤣

[warm dome]

ive been grinding study+work+self study last like 6 years haha

[dreamy gale]

Hello

[eternal mango]

But it's fun to learn

[cerulean bloom]

lol

[dreamy gale]

lol who put my nickname this

[warm dome]

oh 100%, honestly my favourite thing to come out of ai is still opencv tho haha

[warm dome]

sets to ur htb name automatically

[dreamy gale]

oh haha

[eternal mango]

https://tenor.com/view/oops-gif-10031223162004539162

[dreamy gale]

im extremely new to htb

or hacking in general

[eternal mango]

Welcome 🙂

[dreamy gale]

i know a couple of stuff but thats all

how do i start

[west lynx]

Get Started with the HTB Beginners Bible: https://www.hackthebox.com/blog/learn-to-hack-beginners-bible

[warm dome]

just realized something funny

[cerulean bloom]

@dreamy gale follow link above ^

[warm dome]

imagine being high up in a company and not even using there discord guild

would almost be a crazy thing

[cerulean bloom]

wdym?

[warm dome]

https://tenor.com/view/side-eye-side-eye-meme-tiktok-the-pointer-brothers-gif-13730785519279791710

[eternal mango]

I was't here for a while

There wasn't a guild tag then

[warm dome]

it was a suttle nudge to someone

[eternal mango]

Haven't really thought about switching

[cerulean bloom]

ah lol

[warm dome]

nah ur all good was just ironic

couldnt help myself

[eternal mango]

All good

[warm dome]

you played songs of syx yet?

[dreamy gale]

do i need linux?

[warm dome]

i really wanted to like it but i couldnt

[cerulean bloom]

you probably want to

yes

[dreamy gale]

vm or web

[warm dome]

but seems down your allley @eternal mango

[eternal mango]

Not yet, haven't really been in the mood for gaming tbh

[cerulean bloom]

idk what you mean by web, but vm

[dreamy gale]

idk like vm inside chrome or smth

[warm dome]

yeah its kinda died down a bit for me but been on xmas break

[dreamy gale]

alr which vm runs best

[cerulean bloom]

hypervisor? I like vmware

[warm dome]

vmware workstation is my go to

[cerulean bloom]

although a pain to download

idk why they need my address to download vmware

[dreamy gale]

from 1-10 how hard is it to learn basic hacking

[dreamy gale]

thats weir

d

[cerulean bloom]

it depends on the person

[warm dome]

depends on your definition of basic

[dreamy gale]

i have experience with building pcs

[cerulean bloom]

I'm not sure that will specifically help lol

[warm dome]

advanced stuff can be like an 11/10 basic stuff like curling a url for something witha little fuzzing probably like 2 on a bad day

[cerulean bloom]

ogre, is there a way to kinda bypass adding your info to download vmware?
I only downloaded cuz my friend sent me the download link

[warm dome]

i don't think so since it got brought , but they made it free afterwards so its eh

[dreamy gale]

vmware cost money

[warm dome]

could always go with virtual box

[cerulean bloom]

it is free

[cerulean bloom]

I hate vbox
too many errors

[warm dome]

it used to be paid

free now

[warm dome]

100%

[dreamy gale]

im on their web i dont see any downloads for free only paid

iil use vbox

[warm dome]

otherwise just use pwnbox but its a bit laggy so a vm is definitely a smoother experience

[dreamy gale]

setting up a vm takes a while from what i remember

[eternal mango]

It's not too tricky, one sec

https://parrotsec.org/docs/virtualization/install-parrot-on-virtualbox/

Kali also has good docs

[dreamy gale]

i got an idea

nvm

[cerulean bloom]

which shall I download, 25H2 or 17.0

[warm dome]

not really sure on difference i've been running 17.0 for a while

[cerulean bloom]

seems like 25H2 is newer

[warm dome]

yeah its latest

rust about to make me lose my shit and just go back to python w/ random mixes for diff stuff

[eternal mango]

Only had a little experience with rust for some blockchain stuff.. it's definitely.. different

[warm dome]

wanted to keep adding tools into a single binary with rust, but god dam

[warm dome]

don't get me wrong its great in alot of ways but damn when something goes wrong its so much worse to debug

[eternal mango]

Hey

At least it's not Ruby on Rails

[warm dome]

honestly ruby was great

if it wasnt interpretted i woulda even used it

[eternal mango]

I have some sort of innate hatred for it

I'm not sure why

I only used it briefly

but it just confused the f out of me

[warm dome]

i found it to be somewhat simple to use but didnt delve into it to far

honestly i might even just go back to c untill google finishes carbon

[eternal mango]

Thankfully only had to make a minor patch, so didn't need to completely understand it

but I tried and failed

Logic is logic, but Ruby is an.. unmentionable

Maybe I'm being too harsh

It's probably a skill issue

[warm dome]

to be fair i used to think they same with python when i was using c# for everything

couldnt understand who the hell would use spacing for method bounds

[eternal mango]

hahah

[warm dome]

seemed like the most stupidest approach

and honestly it still is but im used to it now

[eternal mango]

There was just something so different iirc

like c# vs python, same same more or less, apart from what isn't that isn't much

Maybe I should face my demons

..and go play with RoR

[warm dome]

i mean at this point, might as well just use python, it'd be kinda like replacing something with itself in a way

[eternal mango]

Hahah

I've used so many languages.. no

I think I need to face my fears

and make friends with RoR

[cerulean bloom]

got newest vmware version working

[eternal mango]

even if for a moment

[feral jackal]

Hello

[warm dome]

yeah i've gone down that same rabbit hole and its worked out great for cyber but cant count amount of times i wished i just stuck with one

[feral jackal]

guys what is the best app to take notes during a lab or CTF?

[eternal mango]

My background is software engineering, so switching has just been part of the job to the point where it's nothing but a thing

[tiny basin]

Obsidian

[warm dome]

yeah sorta same reason i did but most stuff i ended up doing was more freelancing

[feral jackal]

I use it for studing but I don't want to use it also for testing

[eternal mango]

Fair fair

Just

Never work with Coldfusion

For your own good

[feral jackal]

do you think cherry tree is good?

[warm dome]

i havnt even heard of it before and not sure i want to haha

[eternal mango]

Adobe..

Still widely used in some gov sectors somehow

[warm dome]

i avoid adobe like the plague

unless i absolutely have to use it

[eternal mango]

You should see their changelogs

🤣

[warm dome]

that bad

[tiny basin]

Never used, obsidian with HTB theme is best

[eternal mango]

Some of the vendor alerts we got before publication

It was shocking 😅

[feral jackal]

I use that

[eternal mango]

I mean it did the job

[feral jackal]

but I don't want to also use it for CTF

[eternal mango]

But I'd never recommend it

[tiny basin]

Any specific reason for that ? Or just

[warm dome]

anyway im gonna get back to headbutting my keyboard and hoping it summons this root flag

[eternal mango]

Good hunting!

[feral jackal]

I just don't want to use it all the time..
I already have multiple vaults and it is getting really big

[warm dome]

insane boxes are allways quite humbling

if i wasnt on break wouldnt even consider touching them

[eternal mango]

I can imagine.. I want to try one before the year is out

Just to feel the pain

[warm dome]

yeah i was feeling a little bit to cocky with boxes lately, now i just feel humbled

[tiny basin]

You can use notion on the web 🤷🏻‍♂️
Wouldn't take your disk space and it's good too and yeah the cherry tree might be worth a try in that case

[eternal mango]

Every day's a school day

[feral jackal]

thanks

[azure remnant]

Yo can obsidian work for cpts reports ?

And if no what u recommend on linux

[raven rain]

Sysreptor is the recommended reporting tool for HTB exams

https://docs.sysreptor.com/htb-reporting-with-sysreptor/

[scenic maple]

Download CPTS writeup for free right now
https://docs.sysreptor.com/assets/reports/HTB-CPTS-Report.pdf

[eternal mango]

GOMSPOIIRLORRRZ

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/tQdFSKefK9S.gif

[eternal mango]

https://tenor.com/view/jack-nicholson-yes-nod-agree-gif-21960775

You seeing people today golam?

Like xmas foodfood stuff

[scenic maple]

i am eating good food

but not people tho

it isnt really a thing here

😋

[eternal mango]

Fair enough 🙂

Well 🫂 all the same

[scenic maple]

[eternal mango]

I don't celebrate as such, but yeah.. kid and familyish

[scenic maple]

u can eat good food tho

[eternal mango]

So uhhh happy Thursday?

[scenic maple]

yeah happy thursday

[eternal mango]

I think so, going over in a few hours

[scenic maple]

🫡

[eternal mango]

Just found out one present needs some weird batteries that I obviously don't have

Whoops

Who the hell powers anything with watch batteries

Apart from watches..

..but that's all on me. I almost posted trying to be helpful saying "reminder, check for batteries" last night

then I decided not to

...then I forgot to check

[plush field]

hi there please warn everyone that there seem to be a mass attack of microsoft account

[eternal mango]

...

[muted olive]

damn ty now I can pass the exam EZ

[eternal mango]

Well anyone that knows best will have 2FA enabled. What's the angle here?

Got any more information @plush field ?

Cool cool, merry christmas

[lavish hull]

I will warn everyone I know. Thank you for this crucial information.

[eternal mango]

Mooncake!!!

[muted olive]

so how is everyone celebrating christmas today

[eternal mango]

https://tenor.com/view/chookity-mooncake-final-space-gif-13766440

[eternal mango]

Looking forward to potential steak

How about you? 🙂

[lavish hull]

[muted olive]

I just ate out, Chinese restaurant

It was good

[eternal mango]

omnom

[muted olive]

Baking a cake for the evening too

Plum cake

[eternal mango]

Gotta keep everyone regular

No that's dates

Uh

Sorry

[muted olive]

well we have those too

dates in plum cake will be interesting

[eternal mango]

Come back @plush field we need your advice!!!

[muted olive]

no rum or other alcohols in the cake though. Had that once and didn't like it... too bitter

[eternal mango]

A good fruit cake is an art

[muted olive]

We got a tiny ass tree

[eternal mango]

That's not where it's supposed to go

FYI

[muted olive]

Its like 8 feet or something

[eternal mango]

This is what happens when I get left alone for too long

[lavish hull]

@plush field I just got off the phone with my grandparents. They were so relieved I warned them about the mass attack on microsoft accounts. Going to call my uncles and aunts next, will keep you updated on my progress.

[muted olive]

damn, dude's getting trolled hard

[eternal mango]

Phew, yeah.. Billybob Gates just said they've secured their account too @plush field !!!

Ok I'm done being an asshole

[lavish hull]

Yeah think I got most of it out of my system now

[eternal mango]

Thanks to the plum cake

[lavish hull]

Hrmmm yes, some cake would be good now 🤔

[eternal mango]

I actually have some cake, a gift from HTB

[lavish hull]

Nice!

[eternal mango]

I don't want to spoil my appetite before dinner though

[lavish hull]

I destroyed myself at yesterdays dinner. To the point I was just groaning and felt like dying. Went to bed at 9pm. Just had too much food

[eternal mango]

As is tradition

[lavish hull]

Oh yes quite so. And today, another feast. Where I will get to practice my self control and not devour food until I look pregnant

[eternal mango]

Rubbish! Devour, feast, consuuuume!

[muted olive]

My idea of Christmas feast is: Pizza, tacos, noodles, cake

That's what I had for the past two days

[lavish hull]

Gonna have pizza for lunch actually

[eternal mango]

I miss my nan at Xmas so much. It was a proper event with her

[muted olive]

I just had pizza for lunch as well

[eternal mango]

I remember we always spent days mixing the pudding before

She'd hide coins in there

[muted olive]

Feels like this with other festivals for me

[eternal mango]

Ok nvm I was gonna put a downer on everything lol

Have a lovely day everyone

[lavish hull]

Merry christmas

[eternal mango]

https://tenor.com/view/fizzgig-dark-crystal-gif-12894776

That's another film that was always on at xmas, The Dark Crystal

[sweet lintel]

Are you the original Mooncake, or the clone :p

Heh - The clone by one year, but still a long-term mooncake. Fascinating 🙂

[eternal mango]

Not sure the universe would survive two Mooncakes

[sweet lintel]

We have 2 in this very server :p

[eternal mango]

uhoh

[sweet lintel]

One joined Discord in 2016, the other in 2015 - Heh heh :p

[eternal mango]

https://tenor.com/view/poke-poking-nerd-girl-you-there-gif-4986346

[storm vector]

the machines are taking a lil to start right?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/925855860557746267/1371612173847236709/togif.gif

nvm it started

[eternal mango]

I don't know 🤷‍♂️ Not seeing any issues

Oh ok 😄

[austere sinew]

WHY DID YOU JOIN THEM FAKE EUROPEAN

Yellow

[austere sigil]

doggo!

[supple plume]

PERRO

[chrome oak]

guys anyone can check the modules section and try to help me please and thanks !

[supple plume]

hey I had struggled with that module

just fuzz harder

really

[proud moth]

BOTONES

[supple plume]

@proud moth

[proud moth]

ANAHAAHAHA

[supple plume]

hahah

[proud moth]

Bro dropped botones part 2

the sequel

[supple plume]

botones 2

[proud moth]

i am preparing for the cpts, shitting my pants honestly

finished the path though

[supple plume]

nice

[proud moth]

man htb is just next level quality

[supple plume]

it is

[proud moth]

some modules were so good

[supple plume]

yep

I will stop studying though...

this month

I'm going to make a yt channel

[proud moth]

the only problem is that there is an extreme lack of BOTONES

[meager kernel]

Hello hru

[pine river]

Anyone here uses Obsidian for their note taking?

[austere sinew]

Im good mewwy chwimas

[meager kernel]

Merry christmas to you too

[meager kernel]

99% of the people here, yes

[supple plume]

I use echo

[proud moth]

i use notepad on windows xp

[devout sail]

Nice

I used notepad to code once

[supple plume]

I write them down on html comments

[proud moth]

it's peak

[devout sail]

It is something u can type and save

[eternal mango]

Do you guys coordinate brainless waffle time between yourselves, or what?

[proud moth]

a true zero distraction editor

[meager kernel]

I solved my arch linux problem

[proud moth]

this

[devout sail]

How

[meager kernel]

@eternal mango turns out, having fast boot enabled on bios and/or windows partition will fuck with your bluetooth drivers in arch

[eternal mango]

wtf

[supple plume]

isnt it the purpouse of general

[meager kernel]

There's a file check it does at bootup

[proud moth]

not the only thing that will fuck arch linux up

[meager kernel]

The conditions were unmet

[supple plume]

aka the computer is contaminated

[meager kernel]

Yea kinda

[proud moth]

rip

[meager kernel]

I'll delete windows someday

[devout sail]

Tomorrow?

[proud moth]

today

[devout sail]

Now

[supple plume]

DO IT KRATON

[devout sail]

[meager kernel]

I'm daily driving arch till 1st feb

[devout sail]

Do it kraton

[proud moth]

kraton

[devout sail]

Why till 1 feb
What after that

[meager kernel]

Then I'll see

[meager kernel]

If arch works perfectly then forever
If not, then I'll see

[supple plume]

KRATON

[devout sail]

Okay

[ancient arch]

hi is there any staff member available to help with an account issue?

[devout sail]

Did u use support

On website?

Discord isn't the place for support from what mods says

[ancient arch]

I sent an email since the support is not available today the 25th

[devout sail]

Oh yeah the holiday

Well gotta wait for a day i guess

Is it some doubt on account or need some fix

[ancient arch]

Ok sadly it’s quite urgent for me, it’s blocking me from taking the certification since the name on the certificate would be wrong

[eternal mango]

@ancient arch don't worry, support will be able to resolve it when they are back

[ancient arch]

Thanks you

[eternal mango]

They can correct the certificate if needs be

They'll come back to you as soon as they can 🙂

[ancient arch]

Okay, I just got a response. Thank you to support for being so quick !!

[supple plume]

Sir, I trust this morning finds you well, I've been informed about the real meaning of your latter message and I came to realize that there is a proper term for such a thing it is called CLOWN TO CLOWN communication

[mystic harbor]

[devout sail]

What

[eternal mango]

Dude, over the evening / morning people were actually speaking here, making sense

You and others in 20 minutes join and it's a circus

[devout sail]

Oh i saw random shorts of "now u see me" new movie
I forgot the name, might watch that today

[supple plume]

hey everything I say makes sense at least to myself

[supple plume]

isn't it beautiful?

[eternal mango]

Not really, and that's a shame

[cerulean bloom]

@austere sinew daily ping! Happy Christmas

[supple plume]

I find it genuinely beautiful

[devout sail]

Didn't know we have to make sense in general
There's a reason people don't go fool around in #hacker-lounge or other channels but here

[eternal mango]

If people can act the fool, I can act as someone who enjoyed actual conversation

[lofty warren]

lemme cook

[eternal mango]

You do you, I'll do me, block list grows longer

[austere sigil]

it's g0blin!

[devout sail]

I'm hungry so cook something nice

[supple plume]

please don't block me, that would be sad

[eternal mango]

Right, steak time. Have a nice day all ❤️

[lofty warren]

have a gud meal g0blin

[supple plume]

I think he blocked me

that is sad for real

[devout sail]

I blocked you too

I'll block everyone

Do not breathe wrong in front of me

[supple plume]

I wasn't expecting this

[devout sail]

I forgot something

Important

Cyber?

Cyber what?

[austere sinew]

@cerulean bloom PING MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

[devout sail]

What's the next word of his username @supple plume

[cerulean bloom]

https://tenor.com/view/christmas-tree-sparkle-star-gif-6615579473015769006

[supple plume]

yeah...

[devout sail]

[supple plume]

I am trying to understand why he blocked me

[devout sail]

What?

Yeah chronos

Weird I'm forgetting shits

@native plume finally offline
Holiday today?

[supple plume]

vro g0blin blocked me

[scenic maple]

but when i told u to disable that the issue still persisted ?

[supple plume]

@scenic maple what did I do wrong

[scenic maple]

idk bro

https://tenor.com/view/cat-leaf-vibes-vibing-sleeping-cat-gif-17297041570420202318

goblin y u block echoesofwhoami

[eternal mango]

They wanna use general to troll, cool.. I don't wanna see it

[scenic maple]

goblin said "They wanna use general to troll, cool.. I don't wanna see it"

[eternal mango]

The whole evening / morning there was actual conversation

They join, along with a few others, and in 20 minutes it turned into a complete circus

[scenic maple]

so if he promises to stop trolling will you unblock

[eternal mango]

No, had enough

[scenic maple]

rip

[eternal mango]

They can do their thing, it's fine

[supple plume]

the thing is

[scenic maple]

understandable

[cerulean bloom]

I always like to be on people's good side for these scenarios

[supple plume]

I wasn't trolling

he just did not understand what the joke was about

[scenic maple]

[supple plume]

this comes from far, we had conversations here that he doesn't know

conversations that made these people laugh and have a genuine moment

[eternal mango]

Anyway, back in a couple of days, family bits and bobs. Enjoy

[supple plume]

the jokes are difficult to understant if you missed that part

yeah man, enjoy

I guess I don't want to be part of htb

[meager kernel]

Yes, disabling it in BIOS didn't fix it
I had to boot up windows again and disable hibernation in that

[drifting lily]

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSPwUsf5s/

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/ohhh-duh-why-didnt-i-think-of-that-gif-21849807

[scenic maple]

so it shows that you can use openvpn

||jkjk||

[proud moth]

"actual conversation" lmao bro thinks he is Einstein or something

don't tell people how they should talk, it's embarassing

[fiery copper]

Hi! Merry Christmas!

[dreamy gale]

guys i recommend hacknet its hella fun

[supple plume]

don't bother vro, you risk to get banned or something, I would hate that

[frozen zinc]

Leave before they can ban you

[lofty warren]

https://tenor.com/view/tik-tok-shocked-amazed-awe-surprised-gif-16132528

[devout sail]

I can't even see it
I dunno if there's any tiktok embeder on discord

[dreamy gale]

how do i paste in kali

[lofty warren]

lemme cap

[devout sail]

Perfect

[devout sail]

I thought it was some hot lady dancing

[scenic maple]

there you go https://youtube.com/shorts/_oCgWTG4U_g?si=gxphp8fcOlj3KT-g

[undone fossil]

Fake European?

[austere sinew]

letting the muricans think we're all the same smh

[scenic maple]

isnt uk out of europe?

[austere sinew]

it's a part of europe

[scenic maple]

how so

i mean eu

not europe

mb

[austere sinew]

what 😭

[scenic maple]

europian union --> eu

[heady sage]

Brexit intensifies

[scenic maple]

wonder if it was right decision to leave eu

[austere sinew]

no

[scenic maple]

me personally i would have voted so that it stayed

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/laughing-cat-catlaughing-laughingcat-point-gif-7577620470218150413

[austere sinew]

eu is europe the european union is something separate it's a trade agreement

[proud moth]

oh by the way this also comes from the same guy that "loves the community"

[lime trout]

We ain’t gonna ban people for not liking something

But you also gotta admit yall can get up to some tomfoolery sometimes

[supple plume]

I admit I say the stupidest shit sometimes but I wouldn't block someone just for that

[lime trout]

People b different

[supple plume]

@proud moth I sent you dm btw

[lime trout]

Not everyone enjoys the stupid shit

[supple plume]

I know it just made me sad

[meager kernel]

Its alright

You cannot control what other people do

Let it be

[supple plume]

yeah

[edgy obsidian]

Not sure where to properly ask but can someone tell me what i can actually use the Hackthebox giftcards on, do they work for subscriptions or is it for cubes, etc?

[frozen zinc]

How stupid is to take serious humor and escalate that to the personal level?

Everyone has different perceptions about things

trying to impose yours is bigotry

You will never have serious conversation in a channel full of kids which is pegi 16

how stupid is that?

[proud moth]

C-level stupid probably

[frozen zinc]

Touch grass and get real friends instead spread passive aggressiveness and abuse your position of power

[proud moth]

this happens when you are a linkedin boomer that should not use the internet, but you do it regardless

[frozen zinc]

Let them live their lies and have fun

[sturdy thistle]

merry christmas

[meager kernel]

likewise

@austere sinew

happy christmas

[frozen zinc]

yeah and fight THE SECRET COVENANT

[austere sinew]

MERRY CHRISTMAS

@meager kernel MERRY CHRISTMAS

[eternal mango]

Why is this such an issue, would there be the same if anyone else blocked someone? Why shouldn't I be able to choose what I see and what I don't? Whether inside jokes or anything else, it's my choice.

[devout sail]

But envelope is something

[eternal mango]

People can talk how they want, it doesn't mean I have to listen

[devout sail]

[eternal mango]

I'm a person as well. I'm not just a company man

[frozen zinc]

I have block and mute multiple people in my live but never felt like i had to tell them

[eternal crystal]

merry Christmas

[frozen zinc]

i just do it

[warm dome]

THEY HAD COFFEE MUGS?!?!?!?

[devout sail]

Moneky

[warm dome]

😭 i second refilling these

[devout sail]

Show pic atleast

[lofty warren]

do yall wnna tryna some civet coffee?

our country had it

[devout sail]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-mojothemonkey-zzsoobn-monkey-sleep-sleepy-gif-22926696

[devout sail]

Had it? Who stole it

[scenic maple]

is it the expensive cat poop one/

[lofty warren]

nah, we raised it

[lofty warren]

yeah

[scenic maple]

[lime trout]

iirc there was issues with them

[molten bobcat]

Merry

Mf-in Christmas

[lime trout]

Chrystler

[lofty warren]

civet droppings have a very pleasant smell

[scenic maple]

cat shit

[molten bobcat]

I've lost my ability to sleep in reee

[warm dome]

btw any chance of doing a legacy merch re-release?

[lime trout]

probably not

[devout sail]

https://tenor.com/view/delorean-time-travel-back-to-the-future-marty-mc-fly-gif-11295533

All u need is this

[warm dome]

solution to all my problems right there haha

[devout sail]

Not mine unfortunately

[molten bobcat]

I just cry

[lime trout]

HTB Discord on christmas be busy

lmao

[devout sail]

I can't from emotions
But can cry while riding motorcycle and getting wind in eyes

[devout sail]

Most of us probably don't celebrate

I would celebrate all just to get holidays

[jaunty pulsar]

true lol

I'm literally in class lol

[lime trout]

fair

i did stuff with my family yesterday

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/guroteske-emo-wolf-gif-26967313

[lime trout]

so today b free

[warm dome]

you guys definitely need to do something like the coffee travel mugs tho fr

[lime trout]

i'd kill for an lttstore HTB branded water bottle

[warm dome]

yeah i've had to much time this break so been doing this seasons boxes since i missed the season

[lime trout]

i always prefer to take vacation after christmas tbh

i dont wanna go places the same time literally everyone else is

[warm dome]

yeah i need to get better at taking breaks when i have time off haha

as much as i love ctf's its kinda become all i do in my free time

and when im not doing that its work stuff and upskilling with other ways

feel like i need to just turn my pc off the rest of my break

(after this last root flag )

[sturdy thistle]

Merry Christmas ping

[opaque kelp]

[cunning marsh]

Ayo guys

I need help

Not with any module or something

But with something interesting....

[warm zodiac]

Merry Christmas everyone!

[dusky jacinth]

Yippee!

[dull meteor]

Hi guys, how to access windows pwnbox? Do i need VIP subscription?

[dusky jacinth]

Merry Christmas!

[cunning marsh]

Guys

I wanna ask you something

BTW Merry Christmas!

[tiny basin]

Not anything like hack this for me or smth

[cunning marsh]

yeah, its not that

@tiny basin , have you ever hunted for bugs in source codes?

[tiny basin]

Wdym ?
In CTFs or irl bug bounty

[cunning marsh]

whichever you say

[tiny basin]

Yeahh, in CTFs many times

[cunning marsh]

It's because I'm building a tool

[dusky jacinth]

It’s a major award!

[cunning marsh]

Then please tell me, what was the exact pattern? What problems did you face? The methadology? please

[scenic maple]

i havent done it much but you basically look at all the inputs you control and then read from there
or you could run a checker and check its warnings https://www.opengrep.dev/

https://academy.semgrep.dev/

first one is open source and free tool

next one is free for some tiers but has content about source code review using the tool and stuff

[cunning marsh]

@scenic maple , Thanks for this info

[tiny basin]

Well in CTFs I go for manually checking the codes I can of which the input I control, directly or indirectly
If smthng is not known to be i integrate myself with ai to check the source code faster for any lying flaws.
Then confirm it with other AI and then find a way to exploit.
I don't know much languages so yeah I need too much AI analysis
I haven't used much online tools for this task so can't says about those for sure

[open vigil]

fellas

today is thursday

[scenic maple]

its not friday 😔

[cunning marsh]

Thank you, this will help a lot

@tiny basin , do you want to take a look at the tool I'm building?

[tiny basin]

Well yeah there are some patterns i use but I can't tell them all in short lol

[cunning marsh]

no problem

[tiny basin]

Sure

[cunning marsh]

DM?

[next venture]

guys, if you see golam ask him to talk to me

[glass ridge]

hey guys

anybody got the write up for certifried ?

[eternal mango]

0xdf has one published in writeup form, and ippsec in video

Many other community ones listed on the machine page too

https://app.hackthebox.com/machines/Certified?tab=machine_walkthroughs

[molten bobcat]

The coffee is made

[glass ridge]

isn't certified different from certifried ?

[molten bobcat]

Lol there's a machine called Certi_fried_?

[eternal mango]

Guess I didn't notice the R

[molten bobcat]

[glass ridge]

yes...

[eternal mango]

The vulnerability?

or is there actually a box named that

[glass ridge]

(CVE-2022-26923) in Active Directory Certificate Services

[eternal mango]

https://www.hackthebox.com/blog/cve-2022-26923-certifried-explained

[glass ridge]

the box is named like that

[eternal mango]

Oh

...where?

[glass ridge]

i think it's enterprise only

[long forum]

I dont think there is ...

[molten bobcat]

Ahhh

[eternal mango]

Then there are not writeupes

Speak to your lab admin

[molten bobcat]

It being enterprise explains it

[long forum]

So far I have not come across a box that implements Certifried vuln

[glass ridge]

since i'm doing it on my school's account

[molten bobcat]

I was gonna say I was googling and finding nothing

[glass ridge]

my bad i didn't know

[molten bobcat]

No worries

[glass ridge]

so i'm cooked

[molten bobcat]

Lab admin has access to the answers and stuff

[glass ridge]

[gaunt tartan]

Guys is there any good application you guys use to save notes in while studying cybersecurity ?

[long forum]

Read the blog ... it is quite helpful

[long forum]

Obsidian ... Notion

[glass ridge]

obsidian

[gaunt tartan]

Got it thanks!

[glass ridge]

i will do that, thanks

[molten bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/carbot-carbot-animations-carbotanimations-expedition-33-expedition-33-goblu-gif-11632816350890667913

[scenic maple]

🔥

[eternal mango]

Too... much... foooood

[scenic maple]

there is always room for dessert

speaking of food

@mystic harbor

https://tenor.com/EFhR.gif

https://tenor.com/4LHV.gif

https://tenor.com/view/double-bacon-cheeseburger-burgers-cheese-burger-food-gif-12642087368916838011

[rose onyx]

Golam stap!

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/elmowg-elmo-cat-elmeow-fire-cat-evil-cat-gif-16516012309062667418

[eternal mango]

Only just managed main course

[rose onyx]

You were supposed to be the chosen one!

[scenic maple]

i am the chosen one 💪

[eternal mango]

I need at least a medium nap before pudding

[scenic maple]

yeah gotta manage somehow

[rose onyx]

Not like this

[rose onyx]

@zenith pine golam is posting images of food, plox tell him to stop.

[scenic maple]

and i will do it again

[undone fossil]

Hello chat

[eternal mango]

How's the day going Froj?

[meager kernel]

hmm

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/frog-jumping-gif-23922460

[zenith pine]

https://tenor.com/view/dog-cute-dog-happy-dog-funny-dog-funny-gif-3848031856400844792

[zenith pine]

https://tenor.com/view/dog-cute-dog-happy-dog-funny-dog-funny-gif-3848031856400844792

you can have the dog too

i know you hate it

[eternal mango]

If I don't start the GIF, it's ok

[buoyant wyvern]

so, can we write report for AEN for example, and kindly ask for any academy team members to review it and give feedback on this report?
got it from Documentation & Reporting module
any staff who can confirm?

[rose onyx]

https://tenor.com/view/why-persian-room-cat-guardian-but-why-trendizisst-anyaboz-gif-2156104475561014590

[eternal mango]

I'd recommend speaking to support regarding that tbh

Thought that'd been removed a while ago honestly.. maybe it was just reworded

..but without an easy way to raise an Academy team member.. yeah..

Going via support at least it can be passed through to the appropriate team member

[buoyant wyvern]

that would be very great if it is possible

[west lynx]

https://help.hackthebox.com/en/articles/5987511-contacting-academy-support

[frigid mountain]

Happy Christmas!

😄

[eternal mango]

Raise a ticket there, and staff will get to it as soon as they can I'm sure

[buoyant wyvern]

i actually never heard anything about this before

[eternal mango]

It used to be different.. then I thought it was removed completely

[buoyant wyvern]

got it

[eternal mango]

..but apparently not

[zenith pine]

cant you talk about modules with people that completed them?

[buoyant wyvern]

i will inform you once i got answer

[zenith pine]

how would that be different than rating a report from the same module?

[eternal mango]

All good, raised it interally also, but yeah do raise that ticket. If it states it, they should respect it

Sharing a report like that from AEN is not recommended at all

[supple plume]

What's AEN

[eternal mango]

What if it gets shared

[zenith pine]

thats true

[lime trout]

Attacking enterprise networks

An academy module

[zenith pine]

could pass protect it

Welcome1

[eternal mango]

It used to be that certain roles in Discord would review it

but that changed a while ago

[buoyant wyvern]

attacking enterprise network, this is module which is close to the exam environment said by everyone, and advised to to solve without looking at walkthrough

[supple plume]

Thanks

[buoyant wyvern]

i hope staff don't share it

[rose onyx]

Changed a long while ago now

[eternal mango]

Staff wouldn't no

and I'm not saying any of those in the roles did

Was just a change felt we had to make back then

God that really was a while ago

[zenith pine]

https://tenor.com/view/do-it-shia-la-beouf-flame-gif-4445204

[rose onyx]

Would be nice to see something similar from the community to help others even if not aen 🤔

I know and understand the academy's pov on it, but it really is the only thing that you don't get feedback on in the form of a module.

[buoyant wyvern]

just raised a ticket, we will see what happens

[zenith pine]

AEN module goes through the whole lab step by step tho

[eternal mango]

I agree, not something I can decide up, but we're always open to /feedback

[zenith pine]

thats why its advised to do blind

[buoyant wyvern]

because you test your methodology

[eternal mango]

Mentioned you also RE the ticket, so they expect it related

[zenith pine]

yeah but we were talking about why its bad sharing writeups, if the module itself is already a writeup

[buoyant wyvern]

okay, got it

[eternal mango]

I mean the writeup is the result of findings from the AEN module, it's like a practice engagement

[scenic maple]

the actual writeups are the ones we made along the exam

[eternal mango]

lol

[rose onyx]

It was discussed in detail about 1.5 years ago in the cpts channel as to why and outcome.

[eternal mango]

THAT long?

[zenith pine]

damn mb G, let me scroll up

huh?

[rose onyx]

Guestimating

[scenic maple]

time flies

[eternal mango]

I mean your guess as good as mine

It was before yesterday

but aye.. time keeps going faster

[buoyant wyvern]

time to wait

[supple plume]

What a day

[eternal mango]

For reference, did you have a link to where that statement appears please @buoyant wyvern ?

[dusky jacinth]

New phone 😎

[buoyant wyvern]

Documentation & Reporting module -> Documentation & Reporting Practice Lab section
https://academy.hackthebox.com/module/162/section/1572

@eternal mango

[eternal mango]

Ohhh I was looking at AEN

Thanks

[muted olive]

I found a couple of public reports for AEN that I reported

I think they were taken down

[devout sail]

Which one

[lofty warren]

iPhone 17 Pro Max baby

[devout sail]

Does it have games

[lofty warren]

yup

[rose onyx]

Aug of 2024. Not bad at guestimating 😉

[devout sail]

Lemme play

I get weird youtube recommendations

[eternal mango]

Team does what they can, appreciate it.

[young glen]

I hear it’s a good phone

[lofty warren]

yeah but it not good at winter:3

[dusky jacinth]

Exactly what pwn said

[young glen]

Ah ok

[dusky jacinth]

My parents also got me a 50 craziest conspiracies book

[devout sail]

How does the labyrinth survive from htb

[dusky jacinth]

And I’m highly excited to read that

[lofty warren]

im currently still using 13 Pro Max

[spare fulcrum]

Hello

[dusky jacinth]

And I got practical malware analysis

[devout sail]

How do they know what u got 💀

[dusky jacinth]

I assume they guessed

[lofty warren]

cuz he not public, but the other it...yet

[devout sail]

What do u mean?

[dusky jacinth]

Good Christmas haul 🙏

And the sub

Heeeeeeell yeah

[devout sail]

Indeed my other friend got a deodorant

[dusky jacinth]

💀💀

[devout sail]

I got nothing, so better than me

[lofty warren]

https://tenor.com/view/marmota-cooking-hold-up-gif-5382607284931131048

[devout sail]

https://tenor.com/view/izu-shaboten-animal-park-capybara-hot-springs-hot-tub-soak-gif-16689912

[lofty warren]

btw, i love the manesec pwn style

[devout sail]

Context again

[lofty warren]

jeis9s9sn2

https://tenor.com/view/passaro-explodindo-gritando-gif-12431513655127100547

[devout sail]

Understood

[lofty warren]

https://tenor.com/view/clapping-creepy-cat-pixelated-gif-8771889256132402455

[devout sail]

I gotta find my old pfp now
It's been a day

[minor heart]

o.o

[devout sail]

:D

[lofty warren]

im preparing for Lunar New Year pfp

[devout sail]

That looks like uhh i forgot the name

https://tenor.com/view/赫魯庫-helck-piwi-piui-dance-gif-17334666920851807856

[lofty warren]

https://tenor.com/view/steak-meat-grill-gif-26310052

[eternal mango]

https://tenor.com/view/minion-hello-bello-kiss-gif-12923282

[devout sail]

When is it

[minor heart]

it's me

lol

[devout sail]

No no i mean the o.o berd

[minor heart]

oh

[minor heart]

hi you.

ok technically the avatar isn't me, but some ai pop rendition of me it made from my img

[lofty warren]

16,17,18,19 Feb

[minor heart]

eyeballs.

[eternal mango]

Clipart style

[devout sail]

Grok, reverse the image

[minor heart]

I was being a creepy lurker

[eternal mango]

Is cool

[minor heart]

https://tenor.com/view/safuu-gif-17418077151593203275

[raven rain]

https://tenor.com/view/srpelo-mokey-rotoscope-meme-parody-gif-16340061460505238639

[lofty warren]

[devout sail]

Ore

[devout sail]

[minor heart]

plushy me is still my fav x;

[eternal mango]

😄

[minor heart]

business venture right there

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/british-cop-screaming-screaming-sad-gif-1879411192175791821

[minor heart]

I can use those to make plushy people :3

omgggggggggg ❤️ so cute

[devout sail]

Lazy to take pic
But having what golam sent rn

[minor heart]

i should legit do it

[eternal mango]

Companies would jump at them for marketing

[minor heart]

I just need to learn how to like knit

and stuff

[eternal mango]

We've received lego, drawings, pop art

Next step is plushy for marketing

ick but hey

Or just plushy for the joy

[vivid flower]

Razer x HTB

[minor heart]

it's my way out of the workforce fr

[eternal mango]

"HEY DID YOU GET THE LEGO MODELS OF YOU WE MADE?! BUY OUR STUFF"

[vivid flower]

Have the lego models sold well

[eternal mango]

No idea, not my department

[minor heart]

i'd legit still work my job even if i made like a bajillion dollars off some strange random product i created

[devout sail]

I can do the basic knitting like a straight price

[eternal mango]

This was some random company sending to my address as a sales pitch

[eternal mango]

mmhm.. not sure what I'd do without some passion

[minor heart]

i enjoy breaking shit and wreaking havoc way too much

[devout sail]

Try Modern art

https://tenor.com/view/art-modernart-nochill-reallythough-funny-gif-4621518

[minor heart]

haha

[devout sail]

You get to enjoy and pretentious people will buy it

[minor heart]

everyone in my family around me is like an award winning artist fr

i took after my dad tho

modern art might be the play here haha

[devout sail]

You mean he's bad at art or chaotic

Someone's doing VC 👁️👁️

[minor heart]

oh he wasn't an artist type ya

[young glen]

🙂

[scenic maple]

artists are peak

[minor heart]

i have to go study x;

i'll bb

[west venture]

Can we afford to build fortifications in Antarctica?

[scenic maple]

no mr president

[opal lark]

Hello.

I’m not dead

[scenic maple]

good to know

[minor heart]

Merry Christmas

[opal lark]

Christmas.

Of merry.

[devout sail]

@native plume see golam said you are awesome

And 0re too

[minor heart]

probably not. you can't even get over there unless you are coming from like nz/thailand and are doing so at the right time of year

[opal lark]

Man I don’t think I’ve chatted here for a while.

[devout sail]

[scenic maple]

chronos is a cool dude

[devout sail]

CRAZY the evil private version of you just said merry christmas too

Wait are pirate evil?