general

[frail turtle]

I have used arch linux for roughly 1.5 years now

Im not switching nor plan on it

[flint copper]

ah

i wouldnt worry too much then

[pseudo bluff]

[pseudo bluff]

Good decision

[frozen zinc]

but how will they enforce that? Next year they want to ban Monero in Europe...

good luck with that

[frail turtle]

Using fines

[frozen zinc]

yeah but linux is open source no?

Like what will stop you from installing Linux without ID?

https://tenor.com/view/clippy-microsoft-office-word-publisher-gif-5630386

that guy?

[frail turtle]

No i mean they will use fines to enforce it. Dont comply, you get fined $7500

[frozen zinc]

ok my bad

how will they force you to comply?

[frail turtle]

A fine i wouldnt pay id rather go to jail than hand some stupid company my ID

Im going to jail

[rancid snow]

itll be like the brit tv loicense. People will knock on your door and be like 'you got an ID for that puter?' and youll close the door on then until they go away

[frozen zinc]

They just cant, thats why I make the example about Monero in Europe, they cant stop people from having monero in their wallets xD

[frozen zinc]

yeah

[frail turtle]

I would not get a tv license

If i lived in europe

Err england is really the only dumb shits that enforce ir

[frozen zinc]

Well in Spain is on the taxes

so you pay for it even if you dont have a TV

at least in the UK

if you dont have a TV you dont pay for it

I said TV but i mean the antenna

you know what i mean

[heady sage]

yuh

[frozen zinc]

What it truly scary about all of this

is about where it lead to

the next steps

and what could possibly happen for the authorities to justify future rules/actions

[latent oak]

These laws don’t make sense and are not enforceable anyway… politicians and lawyers can’t keep pace with change, and the resulting legislation is woefully misguided or just plain wrong

Reminds me of the DMCA… a terrible law that is now used primarily to demonetize YouTubers… when it was first written it was trying to make it illegal to pirate movies and music, which is akin to trying to make water that isn’t wet

[frozen zinc]

Do you know what is happening in Spain with football league?

LaLiga got Spanish courts to let them block IPs and VPN traffic to fight football piracy, but they’re doing it by blacklisting massive chunks of Cloudflare/CDN/VPN infrastructure. Because those IPs are shared, that ends up breaking access to thousands of totally legit sites and services for everyone in Spain, especially on match days. All to ‘protect TV rights’, but with huge collateral damage to normal internet users

[random aurora]

Thank u hackthebox for the mousepad

Omggg its veryyy niicce

[frozen zinc]

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/la-ligas-war-on-piracy-is-breaking-the-internet-in-spain-and-your-vpn-could-be-the-next-target

I dont think it will last long as is fundamentally wrong and is just a matter of time until a resolution say is enough with the bullshit but so far is getting annoy

[wind robin]

Hello

[random aurora]

I love htb

[iron galleon]

how

i want a mousepad too

without spending money of course

[undone fossil]

p much lol

[compact hinge]

Hi, in Workflow: File Descriptors and Redirection, I am unable to find the correct answer to the question of number of installed packages on target system; is it cheating to ask for help?

[obtuse fern]

1: #modules
2: it helps to provide the module name so others can help you

[compact hinge]

@obtuse fern The module is Linux Fundamentals.

[obtuse fern]

you need to ssh into the target system, the pwnbox is not the target system

aside from that, you can google how to do the thing

[compact hinge]

@obtuse fern I thought I had ssh'd into the target system; was that not the vpn file with the credentials on the lesson page?

[obtuse fern]

you're ssh into htb-student@(insert ip here)

the vpn file just allows you access to the internal network to connect to the targets

the question usually provides instructions for connecting to the target

such as ssh to <ip> with username "usernamehere" and password "passwordhere"

[compact hinge]

@obtuse fern I have done as you partially outline. I am in the system. Every attempt at using rediretion , pipes and other commands produces the incorrect total. My online searches have produced various commands and permutations on commands, but I cannot produce the correct answer, which is surprising, as others have been able to do so with one, or other of the piped commands available.

[obtuse fern]

if you're checking with apt, make sure to be mindful that there can be an additional line

[compact hinge]

I have done exactly that.

[obtuse fern]

if you want to see what i mean, check the command except at the end where you'd pipe it into wc -l pipe it to head

[compact hinge]

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean; check which command, how?

[obtuse fern]

as in the command you're using

i'm assuming at the end you're piping it to wc -l

replace wc -l with head and you might see what is causing you errors

without knowing your command it's hard to say exactly where you're going wrong

[compact hinge]

Okay. Thank you.

[obtuse fern]

I also directed you to #modules since you can paste screenshots there which might be more helpful than just saying "it's not working"

[compact hinge]

There are too many variants on the command I am using, but sudo apt list --installed | wc -l

[obtuse fern]

yep

[devout sail]

Or u can paste the terminal dump

[obtuse fern]

i know exactly what the problem is

you're off by one due to it counting a certain extra line in the apt list --installed command

also you don't need sudo to use apt list

[compact hinge]

I have tried to minus the one (1), but don't know enough to do it (and I'm tired now).

[dawn jasper]

hello

[pseudo bluff]

Hello

[dawn jasper]

hows everyone doing

[obtuse fern]

just take the value it gives you and subtract one

[pseudo bluff]

Pretty good

[compact hinge]

Thank you for your help. Good evening.

[obtuse fern]

another method is to use grep -v to tell grep to grab every line that doesn't contain that one line

-v is the 'inverse' operator, meaning that instead of grep taking your pattern/text and looking for it, it looks for everything without it

[compact hinge]

Clever, useful. Thank you.

[obtuse fern]

just be mindful that grep is case sensitive (unless you add -i)

[compact hinge]

I'll try to keep all these things in mind. Again, thank you.

[civic lance]

@obtuse fern dyk any steam games I can play?

Where its economic based?

strategy

[obtuse fern]

i don't play too many steam games tbh

[wind robin]

Hello Parrots is not supports aarch64 ?

[obtuse fern]

not afaik

[wind robin]

So for that, on the Mac M1 Pro, how can HTB be used on UTM? To play HTB, do I have to use only Kali?

[lime trout]

you can use any OS you want

[wind robin]

Parrot HTB edition stopped being released? Currently using the Parrot Security edition. I feel like the UI isn't very convenient to use :p🫡

[obtuse fern]

ARM support had been dropped due to a bunch of compounding issues that were occurring when the devs were trying to push the updates

[obtuse fern]

It'll be released soon.tm; there was a delay in the Parrot Team and the HTB team getting together to get everything finalized

also the UI can be customized

anything in linux can be customized

the HTB edition doesn't really offer much different/better in terms of UI/UX

[wind robin]

yeah thank for info

[obtuse fern]

it's just the Security Edition with a shiny coat of paint on it, green paint, but shiny

[wind robin]

I like the HTB edition. On my current main OS, I've even installed Parrot HTB edition 6.2 just for playing HTB. It's a bit old, but that's okay.🥹

[visual hollow]

Is everyone dead?

[fiery oracle]

https://tenor.com/view/azur-lane-enterprise-cv-6-keyboard-typing-gif-173866320933161168

[white hollow]

does anyone want to play gartic phone?

[onyx anchor]

Hi there! I'm newbie on HTB. Hope it'll be useful. That's good that they've created this discord server .

[ivory barn]

Hi one question

[ivory barn]

Can the Syspretor template be used for the CJCA?

[obtuse fern]

Theres a cjca template for all the htb certs

An exam template for each*

[ivory barn]

The thing is, I'm more comfortable using Sysreptor and I'm running Arch Linux. From what I can see, the CJCA template that HTB provides is only slightly different at the end of the Sysreptor version. In other words, part 2 of the HTB template isn't the same as the Sysreptor version. Does that make sense?

[obtuse fern]

Im not part of the sysreptor team, they have a contact email on their website to reach out to with concerns

[ivory barn]

Ah, okay, I'll notify someone or something because I'm taking the exam right now with Syspretor.

[obtuse fern]

Sysreptor isnt an official htb product so you wont really get someone from htb support that can tell you about the differences

[ivory barn]

So, you recommend doing it in OfficeLibrary, just like in Windows Word?

[obtuse fern]

You can use the sysreptor template, there's nothing wrong with it. HTB encourages people to use it as well

[ivory barn]

ohhh

thanks

[obtuse fern]

Yeah. Its just not made by HTB, so any issues you have with it arent on the responsibility of HTB

[brittle quail]

This is way off topic but

To the guys here that shave a lot what’s the best electric shaver out there

I keep seeing norelco

[rancid snow]

Personally Id rather use the exact template provided to me by an exam than use anything else no matter how similar or how much I prefer my workflow with the other method

[hoary dawn]

haha the meme stereotype for programmers makes me wanna say this is the last server to ask that question in

[rancid snow]

exams are too expensive to deviate from instructions

[brittle quail]

yea definitely is

[hoary dawn]

i can only say that because my face is personally a untrimmed bush right now

so its true to an extent

[brittle quail]

just asking around so i can x reference

[hoary dawn]

haha my razor is some like $30 razor from cvs though the wahl brand i think its spelled

works fine for my soft ass hair idk about rough hair

my beard is so weird its like very hair-like more than beard-like i feel like but maybe thats just because its attached to me

[rancid snow]

what feels weird about having a medium length beard for quite some years now is that I never considered that I could indeed feel every strand's movement

[hoary dawn]

oh thats a good way to put it yea i could feel that too like i feel like i just know each hair fr

[rancid snow]

like how often fantasy n stuff has monsters that are basically dudes that have tentacle standing in for beards (like mindflayers or davy jones in pirates of the Caribbean), you can tell where that idea formed from

[shrewd heron]

Hello everyone!
I am having trouble with openvpn connectivty sometimes, is it because I use dynamic IP??? Can someone tell me whether it gets better or not if I order static ip from my ISP

[terse dirge]

are you using the udp or tcp vpn?

[shrewd heron]

udp

[terse dirge]

use tcp

[hollow zealot]

Hello

[shrewd heron]

tcp does not work for some reason I tried a lot

udp works just sometimes I am having random problems with connectivity

[terse dirge]

are you using another vpn ontop of the HTB one? Their firewall might be blocking you if you use a VPN ontop of the HTB one

[shrewd heron]

No nothing extra I have disabled all firewall

[hollow zealot]

[terse dirge]

I mean TCP should always work because it's port 443

[shrewd heron]

Last option I suspect it is because I use dynamic so just want to know if my guess logical or not

[terse dirge]

udp uses a weird one

[shrewd heron]

hmm

[terse dirge]

no that's not logical. ISPs don't change your public IP because it'd be expensive

having more than one public IP isn't cheap at all

try changing your VPN region

and or regenerating your VPN

[onyx anchor]

Can someone give me an advice please
I'm new on HTB and I noticed that many moudles have a lot of text in each sections even without tests. I'm confused a bit because I really don't understand what I need to do. I need just to remember all of that? In addition I feel a bit stupid because I see 'Estimated time 3 hours'. For this time I only got through 35% ...

Is it ok or am I alone in this situation?

[shrewd heron]

Thanks, I try

[shrewd heron]

Take a note for important part and always try to have "situational awareness"

those texts designed as if writer speaking to you or that's how I feel. Just use github or obsidian to take note of important part

[onyx anchor]

Yes I try to do like this, I use obsidian. But I feel that I always miss something. Like.. wasting of time and just don't study anything. I hope that I'll start understand better when I have some practice

[shrewd heron]

Begin from tier 0 and focus only specific parts do not try everything at once

For example I focused only offensive parts

and linux

now I am newbie windows but good enough for medium linux machines

[onyx anchor]

Okay, thanks for tips

[sharp shuttle]

https://klipy.com/gifs/cgdannyb-streamer-3

[placid forge]

Hi everyone I’m new here

[terse dirge]

hi new here

[placid forge]

Ohhh I get it I should of said my name first sorry

[inland steeple]

hi first sorry

[west venture]

You don't get it

[sharp shuttle]

https://klipy.com/gifs/alonzo-lerone-youtuber

[west venture]

Brathadair is actually secretly a

[ornate ibex]

CIA agent

[graceful pendant]

https://open.spotify.com/track/1J7GWCAz7GKkHAOvyNQlam?si=nON4ncpWSYKz9N7VfPN-rQ

Locked in

[undone fossil]

goodnight

[bronze lion]

gn

[eager gust]

howdy

[void sage]

as im starting these labs

im realizing nmap is like

the most useful thing ever

[alpine pumice]

S+ tier tool for sure

[stone kelp]

I solved a 1.11GB to 22B aet and back tea compression.

[gaunt trout]

how do we know which machine retired recently or which one's going to retire?

[cloud osprey]

oldest active one retires each week

[cerulean bloom]

not necessarily

it depends on which active machine is being released that week

[cloud osprey]

back in my day

[cerulean bloom]

[latent oak]

🙂

[cerulean bloom]

got academy student plan

[coral spruce]

salam

[inland comet]

my proudest achievement

[silver forge]

Next step: 69

[gray terrace]

https://tenor.com/view/blaze-is-on-twitch-blaze-dance-blaze-blaze-twitch-gif-26364599

[latent oak]

lol

I knew it looked familiar

The giant bog next to the airport

[severe falcon]

Time to play Elden Ring.

[sleek dome]

i think the streaks counter just broke

[supple plume]

Hi chat

Let's do something amazing today

Or else...

[inland steeple]

my starting phrase with claude

[valid thicket]

hey guys, am a beginner but found a broken access vulnerability in a russian based document publishing,storage and exchange. whats more found vulnerability just by dev tools. should i report ?

no one here ?

[terse dirge]

You should look for ways to properly disclose something before you start testing that something..

[hollow bone]

WallayAssalaam

[valid thicket]

hm i made report using claude but yea i will be asking my mentor

[supple plume]

Chat

[supple plume]

Nice pfp

[hollow bone]

What are you trying here? @supple plume

What's with the pride flag?

[supple plume]

https://tenor.com/view/waving-pride-flag-pride-flag-lgbtq-lgbtqia-pride-gif-26835653

[hollow bone]

Ok, so?

What am I supposed to do about that?

Care to elaborate?

[supple plume]

Yes I will elaborate for you:
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple

I hope it helps

[hollow bone]

You're lame

[latent oak]

I’m having claude build me a fuzzer

Just for fun

[pseudo bluff]

The clanker made a good website

[golden hull]

for blogs what did u use?

okay

alright

ohh

yeah, but it works

i used mdx for blogs

yeah

yeah, that was the reason i used mdx

[hardy frigate]

Guys

Don't skip linux priv esc

I skipped linux hacking because I never thought I would have to work with linux IRL

And that was true until now

[supple plume]

I'll skip that for now

1 sec

Ill go to my computer

I need to go there anyway

I feel that bro @silk copper

looks pretty good

[small plank]

anyone knows if prolab (mini) are shared machine?

[hardy frigate]

Bro I am sorry

I am racing through the linux modules as we speak

[sturdy thistle]

leg dayyy

laravel or react

but recently i discovered laravel for me and my clanker 😄

[untold fiber]

Yeah prolab environments are shared on HTB Labs

[sturdy thistle]

Ryan

[untold fiber]

Mick

[sturdy thistle]

Nice to read you

You know what I really love. When we see us and u hug me

[untold fiber]

lmfao

[sturdy thistle]

I really like that

[untold fiber]

bromance in the gen chat

Don't worry I will give you a hug the next time we are in the same location

Find an excuse to go to greece or the uk

[sturdy thistle]

Yaay

Excuse is to hug you

Business trip „get hugs from Ryan“

[untold fiber]

you are content now

convince dimi to do a content meetup

I shall appear

[sturdy thistle]

academy

not content

[severe prawn]

can someone explain me the the 4 way handshake from wpa pls

[severe prawn]

ty

[supple plume]

blame chronos

[sturdy thistle]

Disturbing

[severe prawn]

what the hell is this bot

[supple plume]

I cloned a friend

[severe prawn]

What is the mic made of?

[supple plume]

enjoy

[severe prawn]

And when will the message be transmitted

[severe prawn]

[sturdy thistle]

Weird friend

[supple plume]

I only have weird friends

I'm a man of good taste 🍷

[visual hollow]

Why weird

No weird

[young glen]

🔥

[sturdy thistle]

You are the friend

I see

Caught

[supple plume]

doxxed

[visual hollow]

I guess I am @native plume now

[supple plume]

chocos is getting cloned and impersonated like crazy these days

[young glen]

What is chocos?

[cerulean bloom]

I'm not weird

also, what's wrong with the new HTB Academy UI

I like it

[supple plume]

I'll release an extension next week to fix it

[cerulean bloom]

I like it

tbh

[supple plume]

Have you seen mine?

[cerulean bloom]

no

[supple plume]

@cerulean bloom

[cerulean bloom]

ew

I don't like it

[supple plume]

I'm making it better than that

[cerulean bloom]

why

[supple plume]

Becase ryan said I am an idiot to even think about that and it would take me ages to make something thats not even good

So I want to prove him wrong

While being able to read the academy without this awful interface

[native plume]

Bro it's not that deep trust me

[sturdy thistle]

That’s what she said

[supple plume]

I'm going to make this extension and use it myself in the worse case

[cerulean bloom]

@untold fiber this true

[supple plume]

Now that I know it doesnt violate any tos

[supple plume]

He said stupid

Not idiot

But hey I am not offended I really liked the interaction

@untold fiber no hard feelings 💋

Sometimes I need this type of motivation

[untold fiber]

I didn't say you were an idiot, I said I do not think it's a productive use of time

especially given that it will break constantly lol

[supple plume]

You said it's stupid to think about doing something like that but hey I don't take offense fr

[untold fiber]

I did not

[supple plume]

I like you bro 🫂

[untold fiber]

You attributing what that other dude said to me

[supple plume]

Huh

[untold fiber]

You are attributing the dude who called me an idiot to me calling you an idiot. I never said it was stupid I said it was a waste of time

[supple plume]

Maybe I misunderstood

[signal mica]

transitional idiocracy

[supple plume]

Can you please call me stupid so I get it done faster?

[visual hollow]

Me

[untold fiber]

The UI just got updated to vue3 with a new ui my dude

its not going to be static lol

You have trapped yourself into now needing to try to maintain something that it going to break each week

[supple plume]

I use html selectors not classes so it gets easier to maintain

[supple plume]

I'm fine with that I am an arch user

[signal mica]

ah yes the arch linux resilience

whats on the agenda today general chat?

[visual hollow]

you

give me your money

[supple plume]

Working on my machine

[signal mica]

weve been thru this pika, my ass broke rn

[native plume]

Making features just like how they serve shawarma

[visual hollow]

RIP

[heady sage]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1117809373608157277/1118748536163549296/8B5363A1-D602-4A8A-8202-982F575E6E43.gif

[scenic maple]

@untold fiber #community-content

[visual hollow]

I have to write about the importance of data visualisation in understanding human behaviour and I want to end myself

[signal mica]

dear hackthebox content team, can yall review my box submission. thank you in advance

[supple plume]

If you do /feedback it will create a jira ticket that no one will read. Hope it helps

[native plume]

❌ won't fix

[cerulean bloom]

have patience, young lad

[supple plume]

Sounds fun tbh

[lofty marsh]

Dudes

who uses vmware?

Why does it need an address and shit like that? 💀

[spark mulch]

because it's a proprietary product made by a for-profit corporation

[lofty marsh]

should I?

[native plume]

#general message

[lofty marsh]

Or should I just use virtualbox instead?

[spark mulch]

you should use linux and virtman/qemu

[lofty marsh]

I want one specifically for kali

A vm in kali

To use metasploitable

[spark mulch]

if you're using kali on bare metal?

[lofty marsh]

No

On a usb live persistence

[spark mulch]

that is bare metal, functionally

except with absolutely awful read speeds

[lofty marsh]

well..

kinda

[spark mulch]

i wouldn't try and run a VM off a live USB personally, the performance will be awful

[lofty marsh]

I think metasploitable is a little exception...

its not an os..

is it?

[spark mulch]

unless you're going to dedicate some of the onboard ROM to it

which somewhat defeats the point of live USB

metasploitable is a specially configured Linux install

[lofty marsh]

With 500mb ram usage..

[lofty marsh]

Not too distructive

[spark mulch]

good doggie

[spark mulch]

if you have kali runnign in one VM

i'd just run metasploitable in a second VM alongside it

[lofty marsh]

I dont wanna do that because I feel like Im gonna tangle the vms 💀

[spark mulch]

what do you mean

[lofty marsh]

Idk if its unorganised or its just me being weird

[lofty marsh]

Basically since Im gonna be using windows with 2 VMs one for kali and one with metasploitable.. I think its gonna be a bit unorganised

Maybe its just me

[candid anvil]

In case of of prolab if I requested redeployment of lab do it take time? @all

[spark mulch]

sounds reasonably organized to me

[lofty marsh]

then it's just me 🥀

[latent oak]

I did use it in the past… ran a vm on my macbook… but it’s too expensive and now I have Kali on a proxmox instance

[cerulean bloom]

I like vmware, just don't like why it's so hard to download

[candid anvil]

@timber seal ?

[lofty marsh]

same it looks dope but Im scared of being doxxed

Thats why i use virtualbox

[cerulean bloom]

why?

[lofty marsh]

Idk bro it needs all your info for a download 💀

[spark mulch]

if you're using windows, vmware should be the last of your privacy concerns lol

[latent oak]

lol

[cerulean bloom]

you send your info to other websites

🤷

[latent oak]

Privacy is dead… get over it

😉

[lofty marsh]

Well idk this website

I know ebay or amazon

but wtf is this company

[signal mica]

can it be bought?

[cerulean bloom]

broadcom? it's a large company

[lofty marsh]

Yee the only reason I use windows is for the thought that it's installed to my matchine and it's paid so I dont want it to go to waste

[lofty marsh]

is it?

[spark mulch]

lol

Windows itself is a waste of a good machine

[cerulean bloom]

yes

[latent oak]

If you are a person who owns a car or a home, has a credit history, or basically any life other than living “off-grid” your entire life… your data can be purchased for a small fee

[sturdy thistle]

You can request a reset via the UI

[lofty marsh]

Plus it's stable..

[spark mulch]

no it isn't

[lofty marsh]

It wont break in an update if so rarely

like arch

[latent oak]

Fortunately, I am two dogs in a trenchcoat

[candid anvil]

Already Did that will it take time? If yes I'll go to have some cookies 🥸

[spark mulch]

what type of dogs

[latent oak]

Shitzus

[spark mulch]

nice

[signal mica]

im asking you, if privacy can be bought. can a person that falls in your upper description go to whatever entity can sell his data and say "dont sell my data i will give you small fee + N money to not do it"

[sturdy thistle]

Just be patient

[candid anvil]

[spark mulch]

privacy is a nebulous concept anyway

[lofty marsh]

Has anyone ever used metasploitable?

[spark mulch]

just install it in a second vm alongside your kali vm

[latent oak]

@signal mica no idea… Wasn’t that the idea behind Lifelock?

[lofty marsh]

yee I will but has anyone ever used it?

[latent oak]

CEO was so confident, he posted his SSN on billboards… guess what happened?

[spark mulch]

that was a classic

[latent oak]

Point is, we are all tracked and can be found easily… still not a reason to hand it out here for free 🙂

It’s like a locked door doesn’t prevent someone who wants to rob you… but it deters the opportunist

[muted olive]

Bright of him

[rose onyx]

He paid for privacy 😂

[signal mica]

paid the price

[latent oak]

More than once I believe

[lofty marsh]

metasploitable?

[severe falcon]

World is cooked.d

[latent oak]

It feels like that every day… and we still get up and go to work or school… it feels surreal

[scenic maple]

maybe its time to be a Hikikomori

[latent oak]

Haha

I made it through US Customs this morning with a smile and a wave

Literally the shortest amount of time I’ve ever spent dealing with customs

[broken flame]

started labs and don't know anything so going to academy 🤦

[supple plume]

do you tried the starting point on labs?

it's a great place to hack the first ones

[azure remnant]

[broken flame]

i did and had to use google a lot

i know a lot about computer programming and linux, but my entire hacking repertoire is that i downloaded backtrack linux on my mom's computer when i was a kid

[bronze lion]

Lol

But that's a good achievement honestly

[hoary dawn]

close enough welcome back terry

[west lynx]

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

[supple plume]

@broken flame htb have published some article about how to start here

[raw prism]

hello can anyone help me in understanding module introduction to web application

[eager gust]

You can state your question here #modules

[raw prism]

lmao I feel good in general chat

because every other chat no one cares about that

so no one replies easily

[frail turtle]

this house I live in is soooo cold

[hoary cove]

any mod

online ?

[frail turtle]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-crying-cat-cat-meme-cat-crying-meme-crying-cat-meme-gif-7433931244412524776

I want something good to happen today

;c

[burnt terrace]

[eager gust]

I love the layout of your profile which is holding two certs (:

[rancid snow]

going to the goth market today with gf. painted nails for first time

[signal mica]

Should i link you some russian sadboy bands?

[rancid snow]

yes please

[frail turtle]

I want you to cut me with those

[cloud osprey]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=989-7xsRLR4

[rancid snow]

well I already know vitas already

Im not a fool

[cloud osprey]

still goes so hard

[signal mica]

https://open.spotify.com/track/1yrQI5Ycgi7xU9P4i98NXL?

[supple plume]

Believe it or not I can sing this one very accurately

Specially when drunk

[rancid snow]

dope Ill take a look later. on the ferry atm

[turbid goblet]

the ferry is the best place to blast it

just add direct eye contact with anyone that looks at u weird

[supple plume]

Exactly

This indiviual knows

[molten bobcat]

Heya

I'm exhausted

[cloud osprey]

hi exhausted im paint

[molten bobcat]

Heya paint

I built a lil bed for a bulbasaur

[signal mica]

I could go for some oddish soup rn

[turbid goblet]

isnt slow poke tail a specialty in the pokemon universe

i wanna try that

[marble wharf]

try alligator tail

[molten bobcat]

Slowpoke tails are apparently tasty but only when they fall off naturally

Team Rocket was capturing slowpokes and cutting off their tails before they were ready for profit 🙁

[turbid goblet]

sounds like capitalism

[lofty marsh]

Fellas

Who has x230 thinkpad?

[finite creek]

Has anyone done the game hacking fundamentals ?
Im at the last assessment and its asking me two questions the first one is in relation to a life counter ... they want me to increase value to >5 . Ive tryed increasing life value to 99 but i feel like that is a different question they asked me before and the answer fails . I tryed changing the instructions in game to always have 6 lifes no matter what happens even if i get eaten once by ghosts and no answers appeared at bottom of screen .

[supple plume]

I got a rpi

[lofty marsh]

pico?

[supple plume]

4

[lofty marsh]

jeez

[finite creek]

I have rpi 5 zero w2 and pico

[lofty marsh]

expensive for such small

[supple plume]

I know

I bought it without thinking too much

[lofty marsh]

Idk bro I was thinking of either getting a x230 to have an independent hacking laptop or esp32

[supple plume]

Just get any bro

Hacking is about grinding skills

Not the computer

[lofty marsh]

Yee i know but I dont wanna mess with my everyday laptop to do the hacking

Like using vms there etc etc

But idk if x230 is outdated either

[supple plume]

I can say I have an asus vivobook from 8 years ago

And I am happy with that

[finite creek]

Some older laptops have the legendary atheros wifi chip inside i would go for thoes and have ssd installed

[molten bobcat]

Get a laptop made in the last two years, you'll be fine

[lofty marsh]

I was given a lenovo laptop from 2008 with 4gb ram and no wifi card and no os 💀

[supple plume]

Correct

[lofty marsh]

It doesnt run kali nor fedora

only arch

[supple plume]

Yeah that's going to be difficult

[lofty marsh]

I wanna make a cyberdeck off it thoo

Literally customise the shit out of it

Only the 230 and 430 do this unfortunately

[molten bobcat]

Eh

The only customization I make to my host is the stickers I put on it lol

[lofty marsh]

Except if I give a fortune for those fully cusomisable laptops

[supple plume]

Bre

Anyway gl

[lofty marsh]

Nono I wanna shove libreboot, wanna be able to change everything bro...

Have you seen those x330 mods?

[molten bobcat]

Not a lot of point to it

[lofty marsh]

I know

but it slaps ass

https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/bge0dk/x330/

[lofty marsh]

Yee i dont remember what they are called

framework

yee

[devout sail]

Waste of time to fuck with shit in the beginning

Just use it for work

Or learn or whatever

[lofty marsh]

Yee

I'll learn both mods and hardware and software and firmware

On this big boy

[devout sail]

You chew soo much and choke

It's been 4mo already

Everyday you come up with a thing to bite

[lofty marsh]

Im hungry vro

[supple plume]

let the man struggle

[lofty marsh]

I made a CLI snake game too lmao

[molten bobcat]

Would you feel better if I gave you a task

And then flamed you when this task isn't completed

[lofty marsh]

It depends what task

If I can

[molten bobcat]

It's not a matter of

If you can

You have to

That's a mindset problem.

[lofty marsh]

Let me correct myself

If I'm CAPABLE to do it

[molten bobcat]

Correct, that's a mindset problem

[lofty marsh]

Aight shoot

[molten bobcat]

If you watch JJK at all

[devout sail]

Use this

https://agelesslinux.org/

[lofty marsh]

Na I dont watch anime

[molten bobcat]

Megumi couldn't open his domain for the first time until he believed he could

What you're capable of is not set in stone.

I hate when people say "I can't do that"

Yes you can

It might take a while

But that's not what matters

[lofty marsh]

Yee I'm aware of that

What u want me to do?

[molten bobcat]

Complete the networking fundamentals module in htb academy

[lofty marsh]

Oh

Done

lmao

[molten bobcat]

Prove

[lofty marsh]

Look #red-team

[molten bobcat]

You can just link your achievement lol

[lofty marsh]

hold up

I did it in the safe way idk how to link my achievements lol

[molten bobcat]

Nice work dude

[lofty marsh]

Hold up I'll show you what I've done

[lofty marsh]

Look at #red-team

[turbid goblet]

Okay do CCTV then

[molten bobcat]

The resolution in this image

[lofty marsh]

I know its not enough lmao

[molten bobcat]

Is actually terrible

I legit can't read this lmao

[lofty marsh]

I zoomed out

It didnt fit

[molten bobcat]

[lofty marsh]

thats what she said

Anyway 💀

It's not enough I know

I tried dedicating into labs but it went horribly wrong

[molten bobcat]

Hey, I never said it wasn't enough

I said good job lmao

[lofty marsh]

I said it tho

[molten bobcat]

I'll never put down honest work dude

[lofty marsh]

I dont think its enough

so Im gonna ditch CJCA and jump into CPTS

And replace CJCA with sec+

[molten bobcat]

I wouldn't

[cerulean bloom]

I bought academy student plan todayyyyyyyyy

[lofty marsh]

You wouldnt?

[molten bobcat]

I wouldn't no

[lofty marsh]

Otherwise...

[molten bobcat]

Academy content is higher quality than CompTIA

[lofty marsh]

I would continue the CJCA without doing the cert

because in my country its not recognised

[molten bobcat]

Pearson can suck my fat nuts forever

[lofty marsh]

And skill > certs

[lofty marsh]

I mean duh it's practical thats why

[molten bobcat]

Yeah and fuckin comptias shit expires

No thanks

[lofty marsh]

But unfortunately all HQ know sec+

[cerulean bloom]

I'm gonna finish (or do most of) CJCA content, doa ll of CPTS, then take the exam

ez

not ez

[muted olive]

Its not recognized in ANY country

*yet

[molten bobcat]

If your desired employers want it unfortunately that must be the path

I hated taking mine

I try to find ways for others to avoid it

[muted olive]

Burn your CPE credits

[lofty marsh]

I mean you should do what you must am I right?

Anyway

I have a better res of my completed paths

Wait

Im not done

[molten bobcat]

You're fine dude lol

I just like making sure people understand fundamentals

Without them shit makes no sense forever

[lofty marsh]

AND STILL

VERY EASY LABS ARE HARD FOR ME

[molten bobcat]

And?

[lofty marsh]

Im gonna use metasploitable to boost my exploit skills seriously

[lofty marsh]

That's a problem..

[molten bobcat]

I've never used metasploitable

I don't believe it to be necessary to your journey

[lofty marsh]

Cuz if Im full theory and 0 practical skills im basically useless in cyber

[molten bobcat]

I wish you'd quit putting yourself down like this

It's damaging to the mindset you need to have

[lofty marsh]

Im being realistic

[muted olive]

no point in doing that.. you could play HTB boxes and get far better results lol

[molten bobcat]

There's realism and then there's needless pessimism lol

[lofty marsh]

It's not being optimistic or pessimistic here

[cerulean bloom]

boost?

well

metasploitable doesn't really do that

[molten bobcat]

The only thing that will boost you is your understanding.

[lofty marsh]

I dont even know what is the purpose of netcat

I desperately need to learn the tools

[molten bobcat]

Okay, so find out?

[cerulean bloom]

netcat? listening

[lofty marsh]

How?

[molten bobcat]

If you see a word you don't know give it a Google

[lofty marsh]

Thats what Im trynna figure out

[cerulean bloom]

google

[lofty marsh]

With youtube?

[cerulean bloom]

??????
no, literally google

search on google

[lofty marsh]

Aight brb

[cerulean bloom]

"what does netcat do, how is it used"

[lofty marsh]

The basic command structure is straightforward: nc [options] host port. For example, connecting to a website is as simple as nc example.com 80. Once connected, you can manually type HTTP requests like GET / HTTP/1.1, followed by Host: example.com and pressing Enter twice to see the raw HTML response.```

[molten bobcat]

That's usage

[lofty marsh]

Only http?

[molten bobcat]

Bruh

[muted olive]

no

any open port

[lofty marsh]

Im being deadass 💀

[molten bobcat]

Use your eyes, that's how the software is used not what it's purpose is lol

[lofty marsh]

HAHAHAHAHA

[molten bobcat]

You're bad at googling it seems

[lofty marsh]

Im bad in many things

But yee I'll keep it up

[molten bobcat]

So wikipedias entry summarizes it well

[lofty marsh]

It didnt even pop me wiki

wait

[molten bobcat]

It's a computer program used for reading from and writing to network connections using udp or tcp

That's it

That's the definition

[lofty marsh]

Oh

seems pretty straightforward from wiki

[molten bobcat]

Yes

[lofty marsh]

I thought it was more complicated

[molten bobcat]

How it's used is where it gets complex

You can hand someone a wrench and say this is a wrench

But that wrench has so many uses

[lofty marsh]

Yes see thats why I got confused

I was watching ippsec do this and use netcat all the time

But I didnt understand why

[molten bobcat]

To test network connections

And now you know 🙂

[cerulean bloom]

don't get into labs until you have a solid foundation, my tip

[lofty marsh]

Finally 💀

[muted olive]

You could write your own implementation or use another similar one, netcat is just the most common one

and best one

[lofty marsh]

But i still dont understand why you shove it on port 4444

That's what I observed

[cerulean bloom]

you don't need to

[molten bobcat]

Vegetarian?

Bacon?

That's the first fucking ingredient bro

[rancid snow]

just convention

[cerulean bloom]

it's just a well used port is all

I use 1337

[muted olive]

probably plant based

[rancid snow]

actual restaurant Im in right now

[muted olive]

Server listens on port X
You use netcat to connect to port X

So it depends on what X is

[lofty marsh]

You guys make hacking sound so easy 🥀

[coral spruce]

hey

[molten bobcat]

We've been here for years

[cerulean bloom]

years??????? not me

[molten bobcat]

Oh sorry

[cerulean bloom]

I've been here

1 year

[molten bobcat]

Lmao

[lofty marsh]

I've been studying it for almost 9 months 💀

[molten bobcat]

WELL GOSH SOME OF US JUST LEARN SLOWER OKAY

[lofty marsh]

And got lost so many times

[cerulean bloom]

people have their learning speeds

[molten bobcat]

Indeed

[cerulean bloom]

I messed up not learning the foundations (networking, understanding how the internet works, etc.)

SOMEHOW I'M HERE

we make mistakes

you just learn from them

[muted olive]

dont go back to tryhackme

[cerulean bloom]

shush

[muted olive]

nope

go away

from the gooner cave

[lofty marsh]

Im trynna juggle between my software engineering classes and hackthebox

[cerulean bloom]

they have good content, shush

[molten bobcat]

Awe dude don't do that

Please focus on your classes first and foremost

Do htb for fun

[lofty marsh]

I know but I have no free time

I get burnt out easily

Also I got top of my class software engineering

10/10 on 6 classes

[molten bobcat]

Then studying another field full of burnout sounds rough

[muted olive]

[molten bobcat]

Lmaoo

[muted olive]

its ok you have time

lol

[molten bobcat]

Good for you dude, I made the deans list every semester I was in college

[cerulean bloom]

wdym deans list

idk what that means

[molten bobcat]

I think it's an American college thing

[cerulean bloom]

ah

[molten bobcat]

I was at the top of my class

[cerulean bloom]

💪

[lofty marsh]

Mine is a vocational institute

[molten bobcat]

Ah cool

I went to community college

[lofty marsh]

Full practical

Im doing vb.NET

Its the worst

programming language

I've ever learned

lmao

[molten bobcat]

Oh uh

Random thing

I use to avoid burnout

I enjoy feeling inspired

So find something that can help inspire you on a daily basis

Art and music are good for this

[lofty marsh]

I do music

It doesnt help 💀

I know what my problem is

My problem is that I dont have a purpose...

[muted olive]

I'm inspired by north korean hackers, therefore - I do more hacking

and more and more and more

[lofty marsh]

I always liked the idea of hacking but I.. Dont know what to hack really...

What I can hack...

[signal mica]

Find within

[molten bobcat]

I felt like this for a while so I understand this

My purpose is to protect people

[lofty marsh]

Some people got inspired by mrRobot for example.. they saw the series and went in cybersecurity

I never watched mr robot

I dont have an example

You feel me?

[molten bobcat]

I very much have a large amount of anger towards people who abuse technology to scam, fraud, or harm people

[lofty marsh]

Unfortunately thats the future

[molten bobcat]

Cool, more for me to take down

[lofty marsh]

well...

yee

for us

all

except me

yet

lmao

[muted olive]

The thought that offensive security is to improve defense sits somewhere in the back of my head

But often ignored

We hack because fuck it we ball

is my usual mindset

[molten bobcat]

It serves directly to improve defenses

[muted olive]

Yup

[lofty marsh]

You know what I would love to do?

Attack black hats

I think thats a thing

Either red teaming or red hats???

[muted olive]

Well you could go for a CTI role

[molten bobcat]

It's not

I wouldn't recommend it either

[lofty marsh]

I mean it's high stakes definitely

[molten bobcat]

Black hats are criminals who do not value human life

[lofty marsh]

A lot of blackmails 💀

[muted olive]

Closest you'd get is blue teaming lol

[molten bobcat]

Do not interact

All they deserve is a cold jail cell far from technology

[cerulean bloom]

I know some that are very young

I wish they would stay away

[molten bobcat]

Well obviously I'm not talking about kids lol

[cerulean bloom]

from black hatting

[lofty marsh]

0day the hacker used to be a blackhat too

[cerulean bloom]

ye

[lofty marsh]

He was getting 30k from black hat shit at 13

Bro at 13 I was playing GTA

[cerulean bloom]

then went to jail multiple times

he learned

he left that behind

[lofty marsh]

I thought that hackers were only black hats back then

[cerulean bloom]

actually, I might be having an internship with him

[lofty marsh]

Then I realised 2 years ago that there are ethical

[cerulean bloom]

after CPTS and all

[muted olive]

ryan?

[cerulean bloom]

we have talked

[cerulean bloom]

ye

[molten bobcat]

People who care about computers and the people who use them are the people who make it very very far

[muted olive]

he was a criminal?

what?

[cerulean bloom]

ye

[muted olive]

never knew that

[lofty marsh]

You know what I actually want in cyber but can't find it?

[molten bobcat]

You have to realize, every single person behind every account or host is a real human being just trying to live their life

[lofty marsh]

Mentorship

[molten bobcat]

Mentorship is a scam for people who want money from the gullible

[safe wind]

[molten bobcat]

Knowledge is free.

[safe wind]

true

[muted olive]

Everyone here can help with whatever you want

[lofty marsh]

It's not exactly like you say it... its more in between...

I mean yee there is knowledge everywhere

but if you have a specific question somewhere? You pay someone to teach you

[raven rain]

knowledge is free, labs are not

[lofty marsh]

And not disturb the whole community

[muted olive]

community is there to help

lol

[lofty marsh]

Are there exceptions? 🥲

[muted olive]

its not an old grandmas group playing bingo

[lofty marsh]

Idk man I fear that if I ask too many questions I'll be annoying

[molten bobcat]

It's easy to not disturb the entire community just don't be a raging narcissist, a white supremacist, or a coked up computer hobbyist lmao

[muted olive]

you wont

[lofty marsh]

And you're gonna tell me "Google it" even tho I already did 💀

[lofty marsh]

Na I aint like that

Im very humble

[raven rain]

HTB has the 20 active machines, the two most recently retired machines, a handful of selected retired machines, the majority of the Starting Point machines, Fortresses, and Tier 0 Academy content, all of which are free

[muted olive]

Also, stop thinking in terms of goals and deadlines and completing X module in Y days

learn for your own satisfaction

google whatever youre curious about

[raven rain]

and also the active challenges and sherlocks

[lofty marsh]

If Im gonna be honest with you

practically the very easy labs helped a lot

except for some that belittled my self esteem in cyber

I see them as "very easy" but they were HARD AS FUCK

[lofty marsh]

sherlocks...

blue team is interesting but it seems very boring for me..

not really my thing

[molten bobcat]

It's not 🙂

I do it

[lofty marsh]

I know it's not for some people

But for me I see it as... wireshark, done.

[muted olive]

there is a

[lofty marsh]

idk if its just wireshark

[muted olive]

loooooooooooooooooooooot

more

[raven rain]

it's more than just wireshark

[lofty marsh]

There definitely is..

[safe wind]

xD

[lofty marsh]

But yeah if I were to go to blue team I would go DFIR

But it's brutal

[muted olive]

Everything's brutal

[raven rain]

cyber is a specialization

[safe wind]

wireshark professional

[lofty marsh]

I think red teaming clicks with me the most..

personally

[lofty marsh]

yeee

on public wifis chilling

[cerulean bloom]

red teaming or pentesting

[safe wind]

lul

[lofty marsh]

red teaming

[cerulean bloom]

coolio

[lofty marsh]

I dont wanna be a pentester..

I wanna go red teaming

[cerulean bloom]

hmmm, why

[lofty marsh]

But I have to go pentesting first

[muted olive]

technically
pentester -> red teamer

[raven rain]

i'm pretty sure red teaming assumes you are a pentester

[safe wind]

[lofty marsh]

Yee thats what I said

But pentesting seems pretty boring to me...

"Find the vulnerability" Finds it, takes notes, done

[alpine pumice]

I could see a red team having a physical security role in it who doesn't do pentesting

[raven rain]

what aspect of red teaming appeals to you

[muted olive]

red teaming is 80% reporting to client 20% hacking

[lofty marsh]

With red teaming you're literally a cyber SWAT bro 💀

It's so badass

[muted olive]

youre gonna be doing more paperwork than actual hacking

lol

[raven rain]

if not physical pentesting, what would you be doing in this role

[cerulean bloom]

and preparation

[muted olive]

yeah

[lofty marsh]

It's all about planning and strategic thinking

That's why I chose cyber lmao

[cerulean bloom]

takes months

[lofty marsh]

I can handle months of it

[alpine pumice]

maldev maybe? lol idk

[lofty marsh]

If I know what Im doing 💀

[cerulean bloom]

I’m not saying it isn’t cool, just letting u know the real world

[lofty marsh]

OOOOOOOOOOOOO

Love that

[raven rain]

physical malware development

[muted olive]

0day hunting

[lofty marsh]

I would love maldev bro Im in software engineering too

[muted olive]

chefkiss

[rancid snow]

imo thats worth it

[muted olive]

https://tenor.com/bSTqV.gif

[raven rain]

i'm hacking your neuralink as we speak

[muted olive]

it is

[alpine pumice]

it would bea very specialized role and hard to find i'd imagine. maldev probably also requires pentesting knowledge.

[lofty marsh]

Of course it is bro 💀

You're literally making it rain after

[muted olive]

rain?

[rancid snow]

eh. one of the best maldevs I know doesnt have any real pentest experience

[safe wind]

🌧️

[muted olive]

not really but maybe

[spark mulch]

you're probably most likely to find maldev either in govt/military, OR as part of University research (PhD etc)

[raven rain]

can i get a job straight into maldev please

[lofty marsh]

Funny thing I always wanted to work for the gov lmao

[muted olive]

maldev guy would probably be a prior SWE

[alpine pumice]

Yeah I just mean they're gonna have to know about OS internals to really write good apps for the red team.. so they need some knowledge

[rancid snow]

maldev is something where if youre putting out actual good work you can in fact get a job right away

[raven rain]

i'll make the world's first inverse shell

[rancid snow]

oh absolutely, the maldev people I know are cracked and practically speak a different language

[lofty marsh]

I wanted to replicate the "You're an idiot" virus and it went horribly wrong 💀

For my computer

[molten bobcat]

A reverse reverse shell is a shell

[lofty marsh]

I forgot to put it to a VM

[safe wind]

xD

[lofty marsh]

And I put it

on my main

ffs

[molten bobcat]

I don't know if this will help you

But,

It helps me focus and get my mindset correct for the task ahead if I visualize it correctly

[lofty marsh]

Bro

I dont know why you tell me all this

But I wanna say I'm very grateful 💀

[molten bobcat]

Because I want you to have every tool at your disposal to succeed?

[lofty marsh]

Idk how to thank you lmao

[molten bobcat]

You thank us by succeeding