general

[proper dragon]

they require consistant maintenance

[molten bobcat]

Cell posting

[main halo]

typically, do ppl learn both when getting into cs as a career

[molten bobcat]

Computer science isn't a job title

It's a big field

[bronze lion]

most of them dont require consistent maintenance and tht doesnt mean they are re-building it

[molten bobcat]

Gotta find a role that speaks to you

[sweet lintel]

Depends on what branch of CS they want to go into

[high cobalt]

Yeah. I can do Web Stuff and Web Hacking, but low level things are like "WTF?" for me haha xD

[main halo]

what do u recomend @molten bobcat

[sweet lintel]

You think you're semi decent, then you see someone use something to flip a bit in a circuit to just change how stuff works , and you're like o_O

[bronze lion]

will the outcome be predictable tho?

[sweet lintel]

"Oh - If we wobble the electricity enough when it's booting, it skips that function" - Like... WTF

[bronze lion]

i mean flipping the bit is not hard

but to know the exact outcome

shouldnt he be a nerd who speaks and eats binary?

[high cobalt]

Hahaha, electrical wizardry. Like I even forgot how elecricity works because as an admin and webdev I don't care too much to keep knowledge about the magic behind the hardware we are programming 🤣

[molten bobcat]

I recommend finding your own passion

Instead of just going after what people tell you

[remote bolt]

this chat is 24/7

[main halo]

i see

[sweet lintel]

That's when you're dealing with oscilloscopes and altering in millivolts

[proper dragon]

today I learned about denominalization and nominalozation

[bronze lion]

great

[proper dragon]

thx m8

[sweet lintel]

Timezones combined with varying activity levels

[remote bolt]

xD

[molten bobcat]

I like blue teaming and DFIR work a lot. Other folks hate it with a passion

[main halo]

i find hacking cool, but i also like to build shit from scratch

[remote bolt]

its 5:30 pm here

[molten bobcat]

It's all about finding what you like the best

[bronze lion]

sounds interesting, first time hearing abt oscilloscopes

[sweet lintel]

I would be one of those folks who hate it with a passion. If I had a Blue teaming job, I'd be bored to death

[bronze lion]

same

[molten bobcat]

Someone's gotta do it

[rare monolith]

the more you fuck around the more you find out

[jagged storm]

https://tenor.com/view/find-out-gif-7731269406134406065

[main halo]

which takes longer to “master” and get decent at

[sweet lintel]

When your remaining boxes start to look like this ._.

[molten bobcat]

This is a life long journey homie

[bronze lion]

ez ones. i could do these in like 5 sec

[main halo]

im so inexperienced on this topic. i feel like every question i ask is dumb

[molten bobcat]

It's okay

[sweet lintel]

The more you know, the more you realise you don't - You can do it for 50 years and still not consider yourself a master :p

[rare monolith]

when you are geniuelly cooked

[molten bobcat]

I was dumb and clueless years ago

[bronze lion]

humans are dumb, dont wry

[molten bobcat]

Now I'm just dumb

[high cobalt]

May I ask you for a tipp about learning blue teaming?

[bronze lion]

ask C1oud

[molten bobcat]

Why them, I'm the blue teamer lol

[sweet lintel]

You're very much asking the wrong person

[bronze lion]

he is the professional blue teamer here

lol

[molten bobcat]

It's me hi

[high cobalt]

Oh shit marked the wrong message ahahaha 😂

[molten bobcat]

[main halo]

why do ppl say “muh cs jobs are being taken over by ai”

are they coping

[sweet lintel]

Yup

[molten bobcat]

Cuz people like to complain yeh

[rare monolith]

here we go again

[worthy cargo]

I'm finishing up the Linux boxes first.

[sweet lintel]

AI can help - It's very bad at doing complete jobs.

[molten bobcat]

Every single use I've seen of AI in my own cybersecurity workspace is meh at best lol

[sweet lintel]

The Burp AI has a drop table fetish :p

[main halo]

how long does it take for you to complete a decently hard box

[molten bobcat]

My coworkers themselves produce art

By comparison

[worthy cargo]

I take my time, many breaks, so it depends.

[bronze lion]

also depends on ur current skill

[sweet lintel]

Somewhere between several days and never :p

[molten bobcat]

I don't hack at all haha

I just know how to

[rare monolith]

1 minute work 2 hour break & repeat

[main halo]

whats more valued, cybersecurity or programming

[bronze lion]

can u help me hack my dishwasher plssss

[worthy cargo]

I just do pentesting to be able to think like an attacker. I actually do enjoy cybersecurity engineering, and architecting/building secure systems/solutions.

[molten bobcat]

They're both important?

[worthy cargo]

I love forensics and DFIR

[main halo]

i see

[bronze lion]

nerd

[molten bobcat]

Those two are just intertwined lol

[worthy cargo]

but I haven't been able to get into the forensics field yet

[sweet lintel]

To be very good at cybersecurity you need to learn how to program, and to be very good at programming you need to learn cybersecurity - So - Both.

[bronze lion]

a very good way to put is honestly

[rare monolith]

[main halo]

does it even matter which i start with first

[molten bobcat]

I like forensics

[warm ravine]

Is this how ppl get roles with hacking these

If yes

[molten bobcat]

The important thing is just to start homie

[warm ravine]

[main halo]

ONG

[west lynx]

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

[bronze lion]

u do more active boxes/challenges to rank up

[molten bobcat]

Like I said I've been doing this for years I didn't start until I was 24 or so

[warm ravine]

Yeah right uh.. how can I find the active boxes if I may ask

[worthy cargo]

I'm gonna go get some bbq chicken tenders, some corn on the cob, and some potato salad.

[sweet lintel]

Programming may help to start with, but not necessary. Think of it like driving. You can drive really far without knowing how an engine works, but it may cause a problem if the car breaks down. The trick is to drive along, and deal with it when it happens 🙂

[rare monolith]

yummy

🤤

[warm ravine]

That's called problem solving

[main halo]

oh yeah? im 17 rn. i hope i can get consistent with this

[bronze lion]

go to htb labs and do the boxes (filter out the retired ones which u dont have to wry cuz all shown when u press machines tab is active)

as far as i can recall

lol

[warm ravine]

Alright thanks

[molten bobcat]

You have plenty of time

Just take your time to understand things and follow what you have passion for

[rare monolith]

and then you realize in 10 years that gardening is your passion

[molten bobcat]

People who care about their work produce immaculate quality work

Or at the very least better than most

[main halo]

good point

[sweet lintel]

I've heard of people leaving cyber and going into farming. Like - Going into farming would be a nightmare for me :p

[high cobalt]

Got a tipp on how to learn a bit more about blue teaming topics? My workplace is currently in the dilemma of building at least a basic SOC which would be able to detect when our most critical systems get attacked/ransomwared (again). Not sure where I could start and help out as a Linux sysadmin with detections bc. we know a bit of Theory behind MITRE ATTACK etc. but applying it practically and building Use Cases feels a lot more overwhelming and harder. Do you know any good learning resources? Would you recommend digging deeper into red teaming to learn more?

[molten bobcat]

Hi!

Sherlocks are great practice

The DFIR challenges remind me of my actual work

[rare monolith]

i cant imagine doing that 🙏 but some people might want a break from all the computering around

[main halo]

i learned about strings,bolean, integrrs last night. whyd that shit feel boring. ig everything boring at first, ill keep at it for a while

[molten bobcat]

It's only boring because of how it was explained to you

[sweet lintel]

Well, I managed to finish the Overwatch box today, and made some changes to my script, so that's enough for one day :p

[molten bobcat]

I find that a lot of education in the field is unfortunately.. real dry

So if you're expecting it to be a thrill ride I'm very sorry lmao

[sweet lintel]

Programming theory is ass :p

[jagged storm]

It could also just end up being boring to them. Some people like the 'idea' of programming/hacking/etc more than they like actually doing it.

[molten bobcat]

This is true as well

[high cobalt]

How do you decide what is actually usefull in real life? Or is it just experience you get with real world incidents and patterns you see in threat actors?

[warm ravine]

Hacking is something that I love

As a hobby

[molten bobcat]

It's a combination of experience and things I've seen before

[warm ravine]

As a job

Everything

[molten bobcat]

You never really know what'll end up being useful until.. the moment it occurs

[high cobalt]

Ah I see ... thanks though for the Tipp 😄

[main halo]

did u learn from hackthebox beginners guide when starting out

[worthy cargo]

30 years ago i was the best hacker. Everything was in clear text. There was assumed trust. there wasn't a lot of security. then I got into different things in life and 30 years later the whole landscape is different.

I did my MCSE in NT4

[sweet lintel]

I started long before HackTheBox existed 🙂

[rare monolith]

imagine that you are hacking insane boxes at night and then working as a farmer at day

[worthy cargo]

Back then active directory didn't exist

[molten bobcat]

I know about common methods for piracy, and I can spot them in use in real life environments and it's really funny removing malware from a host because someone wanted to play Sniper Elite: Resistance on their work pc

[rare monolith]

lol

[high cobalt]

Haha

[molten bobcat]

I've also seen people making local firewall exclusions for StarCraft 2 lmao

[warm ravine]

Literally antivirus'ing a torrent

Or smth

[sweet lintel]

When you get things like this

[warm ravine]

Time to hax machinas

But first

[high cobalt]

Well me and my colleagues already told the higher ups that it would be better to get consulting for our SIEM use cases ... xD Well money is a problem though ...

[warm ravine]

Get teh etherned adapter

When I get my first bank card, I'll buy myself a cool hacking laptop

[molten bobcat]

I can use both elastic and slack and I hate both

[warm ravine]

With some good statistics and other things

[high cobalt]

Why do you hate Elastic?

[scenic maple]

since new ui rework?

[sweet lintel]

ELK stack - Nightmare 101

[molten bobcat]

I just dislike it lol

[rare monolith]

make your own laptop 🔥 🔥

[warm ravine]

[warm ravine]

Damn, 8 years of hacking

[high cobalt]

Kss. We honestly love it

[scenic maple]

idk what that means

2017 was 8 years ago

[rare monolith]

i think you should make a small raspberry pi project with a little keyboard, screens and stuff for the fun of it lol

[molten bobcat]

It was 9 years

Not 8

[sweet lintel]

And I've been in this Discord server since 2019 ;D

[scenic maple]

u r an og

tbh i draw the line when gatekeeping was a thing

[sweet lintel]

I miss the old hack an invite :p

I suppose it kept out super new people

[rare monolith]

if im gonna be running 30 enumeration tools at once should i get active cooling on my pi 5

[scenic maple]

how i see it is that it kept people out who didnt try

maybe rude

[sweet lintel]

;D

[scenic maple]

but its not a hard gatekeep it would point you to academy if u couldnt

it wasnt like u cant get in haha get lost here is a rickroll

[sweet lintel]

At once? Sounds like you need to upgrade to a new system :p

[scenic maple]

so i am all for gatekeeping

but like every other company they need revenue

[warm ravine]

Hey uh, what is gatekeeping if I may ask

[rose onyx]

Don't tell him

[sweet lintel]

"I won't talk to you because you're not good enough"

[jagged storm]

gatekeeping inception

[molten bobcat]

Oh I don't believe in gatekeeping

[high cobalt]

Prime example lmao

[molten bobcat]

The only time it should be gatekept is when someone wants to use the knowledge for stupid/illegal shit

[scenic maple]

thats not how it works lol

[rare monolith]

lol prolly , but the fact that i can have a mini computer with a 1% keyboard , wifi card and every port imaginable for a portable mini pentester is so god damn cool

[molten bobcat]

Nah it is

Gatekeeping is the concept of "you can't sit with us"

You're not allowed in the special club, gates closed

[sweet lintel]

I do also question why you're running 30 simultaenously :p

[scenic maple]

it works like this
hey u wanna know x study y and u will find out instead of spoonfeeding or how i see it i guess

[rare monolith]

im toolmaxing

[sweet lintel]

Pi5 Local DoS - CVE-2026-1338 - Run 30 tools at once

[jagged storm]

golam can't sit with the gatekeepers

[high cobalt]

Oh lol I couldn't even write a fake hacking request ...

[rose onyx]

Yeah who else is going to gatekeep the gatekeepers?

[scenic maple]

they kicked me out

[scenic maple]

@vocal fog is this u bro

[rose onyx]

He's bad at it

[jagged storm]

no true gatekeeper

[scenic maple]

we gotta invent a new word cause gatekeeping toxic

how abt spoonblocking

[rose onyx]

Uhm... About that one...

[scenic maple]

abt wat

[jagged storm]

https://klipy.com/gifs/jgmm-cat-meme

[warm ravine]

Oh why man

Im curious

Learning things

[scenic maple]

u r ok we will sit with u

[warm ravine]

Uh..

Sure

[jagged storm]

what is this 'we' nonsense

You're already out of the circle of trust, golam

[pearl kernel]

missing her snores

[iron galleon]

https://tenor.com/bttDs.gif

[scenic maple]

maybe now we 2 sit outside

[sweet lintel]

When you follow an LDAP side escalation path 4 levels deep and wonder if it actually helped...

[jagged storm]

You are now the last to be picked at flag football

[warm ravine]

Man

I feel like a peasant over here

Look at me, very little knowledge

[rose onyx]

Why?

[high cobalt]

You guys know what's weird and a dilemma about gatekeeping and making fun of cringe stuff? You know r/Masterhacker and r/FakeDisorderCringe? The thing is, every time someone is starting to make fun of such things it kinda becomes "50% really is cringe ... but the other 50% is probably legit and really someone learning hacking and having a real disorder and making self ironic jokes about it"

[sweet lintel]

We all have very little knowledge in some aspect or another 🙂

[crimson elbow]

memory isnt inherently unstable, though, it just needs continous power to hold data. its not a nature of memory

[warm ravine]

I mean I usually get shy when I talk with people that knows much better than me

[jagged storm]

No, places like that are now 90% fake content, made for upvotes/etc..

[high cobalt]

I suck at everything except IT

[rose onyx]

They're people too

[warm ravine]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[high cobalt]

Okay yeah karma farming is also a problem ...

[iron galleon]

bring back Vine

[sweet lintel]

For every challenge on HTB you've done, there are a milllion people who have no idea how to do it :p

[warm ravine]

I mean, I love hacking and naturally.. I'm a fast learner

So uh

I dont think it'll be a problem for me to learn hacking

[west venture]

⚠️⚠️STEP BACK THIS IS A CRIME SCENE ⚠️⚠️

[warm ravine]

Just gonna take some guts and time

[warm ravine]

Youre not the police

[jagged storm]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-gif-9271737585583266589

[sweet lintel]

A little bit a day and you'll be good in no time 🙂

[rose onyx]

Well what are you waiting for, permission?

[warm ravine]

Well
My ethernet adapter got broken

Without it, I cant do hacking

And hacking with wifi is too slow

[rose onyx]

🤔

[warm ravine]

And I need speed

[west venture]

Says who...?

[warm ravine]

Me

[candid drum]

how do yall deal with being burnt out? or preventing it?

[sweet lintel]

Spin up a free Oracle box, SSH to it, and hack from there - 2,000Mbps Up / Down :p

[jagged storm]

take breaks

[high cobalt]

I think you don't even have to be the best hacker. You can even find fulfillment and get and advantage if you are just a bit better and more passionate at it than most of your coworkers even if you are a noob compared to a chad hackerman ;)

[west venture]

You just made a very big mistake and there will be an appropriate response

[warm ravine]

But like, doing nmapping with wifi takes hours

[candid drum]

thats what i do, but i end up taking longer and longer breaks. maybe im just lazy

[sweet lintel]

Sleep for 7 hours a night

[sweet oak]

anyone here ever faces issue with the vpn , espacially the MTU of the vpn , what's the perfect value for this

[warm ravine]

But look, I feel like I can do this

[west venture]

Oracle stole my money

[warm ravine]

I literally can do hacking

[molten bobcat]

I've never once touched my VPN settings

[warm ravine]

I have guts

I HAVE RESOURCES

I HAVE EVERYTHING

Kind of

[rose onyx]

Have related adjacent projects that pull up back in

[limber arch]

if your stuck on something for awhile dont continue to burn your brain trying to figure it out, take a step outside for a bit and come back to it

[sweet lintel]

Need to look into the specs of their AlwaysFree tier. I switched off of GCP since they charged me $0.02 for some international traffic :p

[west venture]

¡What are you on!

[high cobalt]

Thats the right spirit

[warm ravine]

Hell fucking yeah

[jagged storm]

If you have to force yourself to do content, maybe the subject matter isn't for you. You need to consider if you like doing this, or if you just like the idea of doing it.

[warm ravine]

[sweet oak]

same neve, but am having an issue i can't get a server response it just hangs , and when i changed the MTU it workked

[molten bobcat]

When troubleshooting it's best to change one thing at a time, could it be that your old VPN file just needed changed out?

[west venture]

No I mean to register for free teir. They said they need to charge $1 and they will refund it back, but they said the registration failed, and never refunded my $1 either

[candid drum]

wow, never really thought of it like that. i dont really force myself, but rather when i get stuck, i force myself to stay until i figure it out

[sweet lintel]

RIP

[jagged storm]

It's okay if it's not for you, but if you're struggling with growing burnout, you should wonder if there's a real passion there. Try to find what makes you passionate about the subject, if anything does.

[west venture]

I ended up in the ER for some reason

[quasi ridge]

sounds like beer

or tequila

[warm ravine]

Ugh

[west venture]

Mmmmmm

[warm ravine]

I hate beer

[high cobalt]

Personally I think, even if you decide you don't want to do it as a day to day job, you can still learn it if you want. Like I am more of a DevOps Engineer and really a script kiddie compared to professionals. But I feel like it is still good for my career to know about hacking and doing it on a side :)

[warm ravine]

🥀

[jagged storm]

it might be a tumor

[west venture]

You need to chill with diagnosing me with cancer

[warm ravine]

I mean, I'm naturally onto hacking and coding
I'm a technologist guy. I'll learn when I have the time

[west venture]

But no, it's bc I punched through glass

For some reason

[limber arch]

https://tenor.com/view/explosion-meme-funny-damn-dayum-gif-9861134019360257122

[jagged storm]

https://tenor.com/view/wireless-device-cat-meme-wireless-device-meme-wireless-cat-sykflit-this-post-has-been-fact-checked-by-gif-11076892829028458102

[west venture]

Have you done CTFs?

[austere lynx]

hi guys, i saw that some time ago you could see any country in leaderboard, but now only top100, can i still see a country outside top100?

[west venture]

Yes

[warm ravine]

I'm gonna learn it one day

[sweet oak]

idk , i lost interest in troubleshooting ,i just switched to TCP , i think it works fine now with no tweaking

[warm ravine]

But well.. no

I havent tried it

[west venture]

Why

[warm ravine]

Is it something like 2 hackers trying to find a flag on a machine?

Or smth

[warm ravine]

CUZ IM NEW

[worthy cargo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3SWlCSwt8g BRUTAL JUNGLE RITUAL DROP!

/me Dances

[west venture]

One

Also we are not hackers

[worthy cargo]

High octane hacking music

high octane coding music

[warm ravine]

Oh hm

[worthy cargo]

it goes with everything

[candid drum]

i see, thank you for the insight. i do have passion for programming, but there is so much stuff u can do its almost overwhelming.

[west venture]

https://tenor.com/view/professional-rat-removal-gif-2906166839664290190

@jagged storm

[high cobalt]

Do you habe some basic IT knowledge? Linux? Windows? Programming? I mean like how programming and operating systems work? :) even if its basic understanding about Filesystems etc

[jagged storm]

https://tenor.com/view/tmnt-master-splinter-we-have-no-time-for-this-scientific-debate-scientific-debate-debate-gif-23476311

[azure remnant]

The most fun ive had is back when

I was creating hacking scripts

For Roblo*

Good times

[warm ravine]

I have some info about programming but.. dont know much about how OS works

Like I'm still a beginner

[west venture]

Have you ever tried to hack activisions anticheat system?

[sweet lintel]

https://app.hackthebox.com/challenges?tab=active - There's a GamePwn section there :p

[jagged storm]

casual discussion of felonies

https://tenor.com/view/federal-investigation-gif-22271245

[west venture]

What's the felony?

[quasi ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/kindergarten-cop-tumor-arnold-schwarzenegger-gif-5168776

[jagged storm]

THANK you

[worthy cargo]

I'm a tumor, I'm a tumor, I'm a tumor. Oh oh oh

[quasi ridge]

I'm late but still on it

😉

[worthy cargo]

Peter Griffin

[jagged storm]

God, it's like nobody has seen the movie

[limber arch]

https://tenor.com/view/federal-investigation-gif-22271245

[quasi ridge]

or we're old

[worthy cargo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0pBVXmYM_U

[quasi ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/tv-simpsons-cloud-fist-grandpa-gif-12082744756246344299

[azure remnant]

Hmm cant see it maybe cuz im on mobile

[west venture]

Bro bypassing Activision's anticheat isn't a felony

[limber arch]

Have the boxes the past few seasons been any good?

[sweet lintel]

Mostly - I'd say so

[limber arch]

thats good

I want to get back into the seasons lol

[high cobalt]

Hm, I mean I don't know where you are from so I can't really give a good advice on how you might get a bit of education about it. Really depends on the country. I am from germany so I had the luck to get an apprenticeship as an application developer. Here it is basically 3 years working with going to a school if you don't want to study it. Sadly other countries only have colleges/universities or self learning :/

[rose onyx]

Past few seasons, some of the hard and insane were okay. There were a couple medium/easy worth checking out too.

[limber arch]

mmh ok good to know

[sweet lintel]

It's 1 box a week - Keeps you fresh 🙂

[limber arch]

I did part of Garfield and I liked it

Have to finish that out

[sweet lintel]

I got lost in the realms of the Garfield privesc...

[limber arch]

yeah after user I got a bit lost lol

[west venture]

Just install Linux and windows in VMs and mess around with them. Ask anything questions you get from chatgpt

[sweet lintel]

That silly box - There's like a dozen paths you can go down, and at the end you wonder if you've accomplished anything at all :p

And silly Bloodhound doesn't detect the thing you need >_>

[west venture]

Eww AD

I always get overwhelmed by AD

[sweet lintel]

Bloodhound: You can't do a thing - Not one thing - Not at all.
bloodyAD: Yea - You have full access to these things.
Me: ._.

[austere lynx]

how can i earn general points?

[worthy cargo]

Use bloodhound-ce instead

[molten bobcat]

Active boxes and challenges

[austere lynx]

not seasonal ones

[limber arch]

bloodhound is so dumb

[high cobalt]

Yeah playing around is reall good advice! Always!

[warm ravine]

I'm from eh..
Turkiye

[sweet lintel]

https://app.hackthebox.com/machines / https://app.hackthebox.com/challenges

Finish the ones marked "Active"

[limber arch]

I've never had it fully ingest all ACEs that I actually care about

[austere lynx]

got it thx

are these points 4ever with you?

or only as long as the machines are active

[sweet lintel]

Until the box / challenge retires.

[austere lynx]

oh ok got it

[sweet lintel]

It's possible to drop all the way back down to 0 if you're away long enough

It's why I've had this color name on Discord for years ;D

Do box - Do challenge - Box retires - Challenge retires - Loop :p

The thing with seasonal boxes is that they're the boxes that will stay active the longest, so will give you points for the longest time

[devout sail]

Yappers

[austere lynx]

so, if it some point i complete all active labs ill get the highest rank?

[mystic harbor]

[sweet lintel]

Omni - Yes

[vocal fog]

I would like to gatekeep the answer

[random aurora]

Go to machines retired one

[devout sail]

Nop

Have to do the challenges too

[random aurora]

Okay good luck everyone🤍

[devout sail]

Shhhhhhhhtfu

[sweet lintel]

Well, "Labs" do rather include challenges - It's all active everything :p

But as long as you can complete them faster than they retire, you'll eventually hit Omni

[devout sail]

But challenges are hard and boring

[mystic harbor]

They aren't

[austere lynx]

what if i have 64 points, but i did only seasonal machines and 1 active chal for 20 points, how i got other 44?

[molten bobcat]

Don't worry about the points

[devout sail]

Eh nah i think the current logic on HTB rank is like this
If they didn't release new content and retire active, and have only 1 machine
It's insta peak

[molten bobcat]

Rank is determined by percentage of the platform completed

[austere lynx]

im not worried, im just curious how they work

[stable tiger]

@obtuse fern whered yo mod go

[sweet lintel]

That Pirate box and that post-shell Garfield knocked me down 🙁

[devout sail]

Do it tonight

[limber arch]

that points thing is new right

[devout sail]

I was hungry

[devout sail]

Nah

[limber arch]

I don't recall seeing that a few months ago

mhm, maybe it wasn't displayed in the column or smth

[devout sail]

But seasonal ranking is broken too

[limber arch]

so i didnt notice

[sweet lintel]

Yea - I'm sure I should be Ruby by now...

[devout sail]

Not that

[sweet lintel]

2/7 into plat at the end is weird ._.

[devout sail]

This is discord bot issue
Just reverify

Like how I'm always holo

[sweet lintel]

It's on the site as well.

I need 5 more seasonal flags to hit Ruby, I've missed 3 flags this entire season, and there are 2 boxes left.

[devout sail]

Oh well

[sweet lintel]

Wait...

Oh wait....

[devout sail]

:")

[sweet lintel]

I've just realized

Plat is ABOVE Ruby ._.

[devout sail]

Isn't platinum more expensive than ruby?

[austere lynx]

i am ruby and i got much less than you bro

[sweet lintel]

Saw my Silver icon and thought it was plat - Lol - My bad :p

Let me reverify ;D

[past acorn]

hello

[devout sail]

They starred with mats like silver gold ruby plat
Then put random holo?

Why not holmium

😔

[sweet lintel]

Wooo

Weird purple icon! \o/

My highest one yet 😛

[devout sail]

This season was very easy for holo tbh

Plus increased rewards

[sweet lintel]

I may have pushed Holo harder if it wasn't for that stupid Pirate box that knocked me down hard

[devout sail]

Ahaha next season

[austere lynx]

no insane machines?

[nova summit]

Can someone explain to me how the season thingy works

[devout sail]

Final one will be

[past acorn]

@burnt bloom youre getting opal twmrr, nice

[devout sail]

Vague question

[burnt bloom]

[devout sail]

U do seasonal machine within week
Get points, seasonal rank, seasonal rewards

[sweet lintel]

There's a bunch of boxes every now and then that you get a ranking for :p

[nova summit]

ic ic tysm!

im trying to save up for the yearly subscription

[sweet lintel]

I posted my seasonal reward discount code in this Discord once since I wasn't planning on using it - Mods were not happy with me ._.

[devout sail]

But credits can't be shared

[sinful mesa]

You pwn the weekly seasonal box and you get points. With enough points you increase your rank.

[sweet lintel]

Fellow Purple! How's your progress going?

[summer urchin]

purpel

[devout sail]

I realised they didn't give me orev season rewards

Atleast credits I'm still at 25$

Even tho I've been holo for 2 seasons

[sweet lintel]

You get credits?

[devout sail]

Obviously that's the best part

Idc about cubes

[glad needle]

Didnt they only give a discount code last season and not credit?

[sweet lintel]

At what rank? :p

[sinful mesa]

It's going pretty well. I'm learning a lot.

[devout sail]

Every rank

This time holo gives 45 iirc

S8 I got 25

S9 idk how much it was supposed to give

[sweet lintel]

You sure about that? I got cubes in the past - Never credits

[devout sail]

Just check season page

Rewards

And send screenshot while u are at it

See if u find s9 rewards too

[sweet lintel]

Yea - Only cubes and discount codes

[devout sail]

Oh they changed it to codes

That's weird

Can't stack ig

[sweet lintel]

People spend credits - They don't spend discount codes

[devout sail]

Yeah shitty

I must have s9 ones in mail then

[signal mica]

Instagram Reelix

[devout sail]

But credits were nice

[sweet lintel]

I suppose it was also an anti-RMT thing - People getting holo on 100k accounts and so on

[devout sail]

So what, can't share it
Tied to account

[sweet lintel]

I don't use Instagram so someone else snagged my alias there

[devout sail]

I don't think we even got 100k active players lmao 💀

[devout sail]

The joke was reel

Stupid pokemon

[mystic harbor]

no more stacking HTB's money

[signal mica]

We dont, the new biznis model is not working

[austere sigil]

biznis

[devout sail]

I wanted to stack for 10y and have alot of fake money 😔

Well as long as we can stack it
It's good
Otherwise gotta just use it once per subs

Pretty sure the stacking is no no 💀

[sweet lintel]

There was an ongoing thing a few years back where some fishing company released the 9th brand of their fishing reel, used roman numerals, and it ended off as Reelix half the time which got me spammed to death :p

[meager kernel]

wassup

[devout sail]

Change your name to reel 10

Reelx

Stay 1 point ahead

[sweet lintel]

And there was some theme person who used a placeholder gmail address on their "Reel-IX" site which got scraped and I got spammed, so that was fun

[signal mica]

Haha get reeled in

[sweet lintel]

And now there's some random Spanish thing using Reelix to promote their image-based AI, so I'm getting spammed for that as well.

The wonders of a 6 character alias :p

[devout sail]

https://tenor.com/view/eel-fish-pun-gif-11135431966234376745

[scenic maple]

thats why u add random shit at the end of ur username

[devout sail]

I once joined a server with sado as invite
It was random russian server
Funny to find random stuff on your name

[sweet lintel]

I created this username almost 40 years ago - There were 0 search results for it at the time :p

[devout sail]

And yet there's a Chinese guy with my exact name

He could have been 20A but nah

[scenic maple]

40 years ago the first letter of year was 1

thas kinda old

[sweet lintel]

Ya young whippersnappers...

[scenic maple]

what if his 21A actually means something

[devout sail]

Y'all ride dinosaur 40y ago?

[devout sail]

It could

I just hope he gets banned from X
So i can take it

[sweet lintel]

I watched them build the pyramids when I walked over to Egypt the one day, so that was nice :p

[devout sail]

How were they doing it

Were there any green skinned people?

[sweet lintel]

Rolling blocks of stone on sticks

[signal mica]

Rolling blocks

[devout sail]

Sounds like rolbox

[signal mica]

[devout sail]

waz

[sweet lintel]

That reminds me - Watch that movie The Man from Earth - Fascinating movie. There's a sequel, but it's not that great - Original is very thought provoking

[devout sail]

Hmmm can it be converted into short

Can't focus for 3h

[sweet lintel]

It's about a guy from earth :p

[devout sail]

Ah so mirror

[sweet lintel]

And it's less than 90 minutes long

[scenic maple]

just watch 7 hour of reels and duplicate shorts to watch a 3 hour moive its that easy

[devout sail]

Well you underestimated me
But sure I'll keep it in mind

[devout sail]

Make it into feels

Rells

Reelix

[scenic maple]

some lifeless guy has already done it

[sweet lintel]

Until you've chained all 3 LotR Extended editions in a row ;D

[scenic maple]

it doesnt take much

[devout sail]

Add unique subway surfers gameplay on each reel

And a greenscreen guy who does nothing

[scenic maple]

i saw a guys pipeline who makes 10k from shorts

[sweet lintel]

I do wonder how that became the defacto alternate-stream slop game...

[devout sail]

10k per year? Day?

[sweet lintel]

Eh - Many people using AI to pump out shorts on a hundred different channels earning fortunes

[signal mica]

Dont do this to me

[devout sail]

Idk but it kinda works

[scenic maple]

he gets it transcribed as in the whole movie
timestapms based on text and speech and feeds into ai and asks for timestamps
then he splits using ffmpeg and uses code to put subtitiles and based on color and stuff uses ai to apply color grading to pop up
and releases to shorts using yt api

[proper dragon]

is this the guy who has phones pointed at monitors

[scenic maple]

per week

[devout sail]

Make him me

I want 10k per week

[scenic maple]

no thats rookie

he has a factory

[devout sail]

🎂

[sweet lintel]

Run a local LLM - Set up a script to generate a 15 second short - Upload it to 75 channels under 75 different names - Repeat

Now, spin up a hundred of those LLM's.

[scenic maple]

#learnToCode

[devout sail]

Any channel which teaches this in reel?

Like Peter Griffin and Donald trump

Oh btw

[scenic maple]

i would say some words rn

but i would have to ban myself

[devout sail]

I saw some guy selling course
Which is slop but for competitive exams

[signal mica]

Allow me

[scenic maple]

exytemely low tier ragebait

[devout sail]

And it's actually selling lmao

[sweet lintel]

There are people "selling" HTB flags for boxes half a week before the box releases :p

[devout sail]

Like u guys must have seen the ones with cats ?
Similar but with elements or history 💀

[proper dragon]

does every mod have an inner troll struggling to break free

[scenic maple]

i dont speak for all the mods but i was indeed a big troll back in the days

[devout sail]

Perks of being a member is you can say whatever shit u want

[scenic maple]

you could see me from space back in the days

[devout sail]

Now look at golam

Can't say shit cuz he's a 😺

[scenic maple]

[redacted]

and you are poor

now speak

[proper dragon]

gonna go discover the esoteric ritual to help all mods' inner trolls escape and wreak havoc

[signal mica]

I saw

[scenic maple]

access to everything htb has to offer in simple terms

[sweet lintel]

In the 10 years I've been on Discord, I think you were one of the <10 people I had blocked who was actually active

[devout sail]

Golam has 4 girlfriends
He just said that

[scenic maple]

what did i do

[signal mica]

Who tf blocks golam

[devout sail]

Well tbh the only thing I care about is active machines
Maybe retired sometimes
Not missing out much

[scenic maple]

well i guess works out for u

[sweet lintel]

Mass trolling many a year ago

[scenic maple]

i wonder what i did lol must have been peak

[devout sail]

Alright I'm kicking you too
It works for me

[proper dragon]

id have sent you a friend request

[scenic maple]

you see the thing with trolling is

as long as it doesnt harm anyone and its not bullying

its not that bad

[heady sage]

Who blocks Golam? Honestly kind of weird behavior if you ask me.

[scenic maple]

i had quite the mastery of it

[devout sail]

This comment hurt me in my heart

[scenic maple]

but things change

we grow

[signal mica]

You said it

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/pat-good-job-patpat-gif-25554349

[devout sail]

And this image hurts my eyes

[scenic maple]

should have posted the anime one but u would have posted something weird like feet

[sweet lintel]

If you find someone who rides the line between bullying and not bullying day in and day out for months on end, that's probably someone you want to distance yourself from :p

[scenic maple]

absolutely agree

i never support bullying

now that i remember the old times

[proper dragon]

so long as i use the internet, I will troll

[scenic maple]

it kinda brings back memeories of seadris actuaL and agent47

and golgo

[devout sail]

I remember at every point of my discord time
I hated atleast 1 mod 💀

[scenic maple]

from what server

[devout sail]

I started with solo leveling server

[heady sage]

I didn’t hate any of the mods here

[proper dragon]

htb mods are super chill

[scenic maple]

i want to know what happens with that anime

like whats the end

[devout sail]

My fault tbh
I exploited their bot and generated too much coins

[scenic maple]

tbh i want to know every animes end and the whole lore without spending too much time

[devout sail]

Well he does time magic and fix everything and shit

[scenic maple]

and its too cringe to watch recap vids

[frigid mountain]

www.wikipedia.com

[scenic maple]

true

i do use it sometimes

[heady sage]

@Grokinator

[scenic maple]

but not every anime has plot listed

[proper dragon]

make an llm do this
turn it into a youtube series

[signal mica]

Gitara

[heady sage]

Huh

[scenic maple]

tbh at that point in time you could watch the series

[heady sage]

Guess they left

[devout sail]

Get weeb gf and let her yap

[heady sage]

@Gronkulator

[scenic maple]

massive larp specialist

[heady sage]

Gng I am not a weeb 😭

[devout sail]

I thought that was real sloth 💀

[devout sail]

Are u his gf 👁️👁️

[scenic maple]

nah thats a dawg

[quasi ridge]

one way of reading this is physically large larp specialist...

[heady sage]

No! I have a boyfriend

[devout sail]

Look at the lamp pole

[heady sage]

He doesn’t do hacking

[quasi ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/fat-big-boy-jiggle-belly-gif-6013617172972677836

[heady sage]

He’s a nursing assistant

[scenic maple]

so larp means belly?

[sweet lintel]

Spoiler: ||Nm - I need more sleep.||

[quasi ridge]

Live Action Role Play. L.A.R.P

[devout sail]

And his kid does stuff

[proper dragon]

wait wut

[quasi ridge]

aka D&D but you swing your foam or wood sword around

[devout sail]

The only thing i like from solo leveling is

[high cobalt]

Oh okay. As 0daykitty said, playing around with VMs etc is a good start though. And there are a few good resources online. Even free ones.

[scenic maple]

average anime with a good animation budget

[devout sail]

Cha hae in

[warm ravine]

I love messin around and learning anyway

[devout sail]

That plus lockdown
Perfect timing

[proper dragon]

isnt solo leveling a bit different than t.o.g.

[sweet lintel]

Oh wait... Nevermind :p

[devout sail]

Ah i haven't finished tog

I dropped almost all of them
I only read skeleton knight couldn't protect the dungeon

But slow release

[proper dragon]

tog fell off so hard

[devout sail]

Might have to pick up ln

[sweet lintel]

I've watched so many Isekai's, I think my brain has been hit by Truck-kun.

[devout sail]

Only fun for first 10 chapters tbh

And most dies by 30

I have probably read almost all Isekai (started 10 chaps) 3y ago

[sweet lintel]

It's why you stick to the Anime and binge the entire season / series in a day :p

[devout sail]

Just for seeing how they die and what they get

[devout sail]

I like reading light novels now

[sweet lintel]

You saw the recent one where the guy got temporarily reincarnated as the hero who saves the day with a massive harem....'s rib?

[devout sail]

I've been trying to finish all of ergen novels
From last 1.5y

[devout sail]

Haven't after that time period xD

[proper dragon]

have you guys read dark gathering

[devout sail]

None to invalidate

[sweet lintel]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Ribdiculous_Reincarnation - One of the stranger things I've seen :p

[devout sail]

Funny name
I'll check it out rn

You should check this out
It's nice

If u enjoy this type of genre

Pretty unique too

Im saying unique on this status

Haven't seen many doing such stuff

Anyways time to check this rib reincarnation

[sweet lintel]

You were warned :p

[muted olive]

Yeah this was assigned CVE-2020-something right?

I think they disputed this and tried to have it remove but to no effect :p

[high cobalt]

Yeah linked it later. CVE 2020 19909

[scenic maple]

turns out reelix is a weeb

[muted olive]

curl http://evil.com look, I just found a 10.0 CVE

give CVE when

[muted olive]

https://tenor.com/rjdz9NpxPl7.gif

[scenic maple]

p1 wont fix

[high cobalt]

Look, I found a critical SQLi in PHP. If I pass an arbitrary Text to PDO::exec I get SQLi

[sweet lintel]

Always have been :p

[scenic maple]

this is exactly how i keep finding 0 days in my code

[devout sail]

While trying to find it
Graphql broke 💀

[sweet lintel]

You were warned :p

[devout sail]

Nice to find random errors tho

[sweet lintel]

Fix fix 🙂

Reminds me - What's that anime where the episode titles are effectively a synopsis for the entire episode...

[high cobalt]

How? are you doing exec($_GET["query"])

[scenic maple]

i am doing worse things

so back in the days i was making a discord bot so i thought dang my bot has so many features

what wold be a unique feature

[high cobalt]

https://tenor.com/view/side-eye-dog-suspicious-look-suspicious-doubt-dog-doubt-gif-23680990

[scenic maple]

so i added code execution like literally passing it to os.system lol

[high cobalt]

😭😭😭

[scenic maple]

i thought man its just replit server whats the worse that could happen

cause its not my server idgaf if it gets hacked

so it turns out

you could leak the token when you get rce

and then its basically the attackers bot

with access to the servers its inside

[sweet lintel]

I did one in C# awhile back. Added a tonne of protections.

I stopped when some guy in a programming channel used like 5 layers of reflection to execute the code, and it took me the rest of the week trying to figure out what the code actually did

[high cobalt]

Lemme guess ...

[scenic maple]

remember guys its called best practices because you should follow them

[high cobalt]

Server went rogue after this

[scenic maple]

bad things happen when you dont

[molten bobcat]

Yooo

[scenic maple]

thanfully enough i was the bad guy who found it

[muted olive]

The funny thing is even by NVD's logic, CVE-2020-19909 would not lead to even a DoS because a DoS implies that there's an asymmetric amplification of otherwise normal traffic in a way that overloads the server's bandwidth / available memory. 0 secs between retries and calling it a DoS on a single threaded client is insane.

Therefore my theory is that the reporter was high on ketamine, and so was NVD when they assigned the CVE.

[scenic maple]

i wasnt bad enough

[sweet lintel]

If people can run code using your program, they can run bad code - No exceptions.

[frigid mountain]

i can't run code using my program

[scenic maple]

now that i am mega big brain cause i learned from my mistakes the legit way to do it is to spin up a container and run it there and return
also make sure it doesnt have internet access

or it could dos

[high cobalt]

My theory is om NVD side it was just an intern checking checkboxes or something

[scenic maple]

feel free to use mine

[devout sail]

So it doesn't have manga, either anime or ln
I was looking for manga lmao
Might just watch it
Looks fun from description

[sweet lintel]

Reminds me of when I was bored and used the Github runner to get a temporary shell on the builder box. Not much there, and it shut down after 30 seconds :p

[devout sail]

Yeah Goddess: “What Do You Want to Turn Into When You’re Reincarnated in Another World?” Me: “Into a Hero’s Rib”

[high cobalt]

I mean in very rare cases you need exec.

[edgy jetty]

golam

[scenic maple]

if you are hitting those very rare edge cases then you are doing things wrong

[edgy jetty]

selem akhy u can check ur dms ?

[scenic maple]

and you should do it differently

[scenic maple]

aight

[sweet lintel]

It's the way it's described though is hilarious.

"I want to be turned into A hero who goes on amazing adventures, and has a massive harem who constantly swoons over him and he does awesome stuff's rib."

[devout sail]

You can make it last longer no?
Im pretty sure it's easy to make it last for 10m

[muted olive]

now for a real 10 CVE: all of earth's 32 bit systems will overflow on February 7, 2036 at 06:28:16 UTC

[scenic maple]

there is nothing there?

[high cobalt]

While I did an epprenticeship I should program a test runner so a prof could run submissions from his students. Tried to secure it with a second process and user, firewall etc though

[scenic maple]

ok now i have

[west venture]

But we'll all be dead by then

[high cobalt]

Still not 100% comfortable if this was a good idea but not my responsibility any more I mean to be fair it does not get library and Java patches anyways so thats probably a bigger issue lmao ...

[devout sail]

What's gonna happen on Feb 6 2036

[sweet lintel]

2036?

[azure remnant]

A lot

[sweet lintel]

You sure it wasn't the 19th of Jan 2038?

[high cobalt]

Didn't they change some impls to use 64 bit or more though?

[sweet lintel]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

[muted olive]

Nope

[muted olive]

Yup

[azure remnant]

Im still on 4 bits minecraft computer

[muted olive]

its like the y2k thnig

except everyone uses 64 bit anyway

so no panic this time

[high cobalt]

Although, I still wonder what stuff will break then ... probably more than people now worry and think about ...

[azure remnant]

Bruh this is real

[sweet lintel]

If only :p

[muted olive]

well.. yes

[azure remnant]

Its all games and fun until 32 bits aint enough 🗣️ 🗣️ 🔥 🔥 🔥

[quasi ridge]

the thing is..you can just push the bits to mean something else...the starting point for time stuff is 1970 iirc

[high cobalt]

Just 10 years guys ... 10 years until IT is in "Oh shit we didn't think about that until now" mode ... again

[quasi ridge]

so bumping it to 2000 buys at least 30+ years

[edgy jetty]

yo Have any guys already hunted on Bugcrowd?

[sweet lintel]

Or in this case - 10

[high cobalt]

Seems like every IT Generation needs to experience a global scale fuck up once

[muted olive]

yes, itll reset to jan 1st 1970

[muted olive]

crowdstriiike

why a generation when you can have one every year

[sweet lintel]

When you're at this stage and haven't even gotten User

[muted olive]

yes

[high cobalt]

Nah not everyone uses them so not that big (even though big enough). Well I just have trauma from a near ransomware attack.

[rancid snow]

also yes

[azure remnant]

Shouts skill issue 🗣️ 🗣️ 🔥 🔥 🔥

[silver forge]

looks like extremely easy task to me

[azure remnant]

"i can do it in seconds" ahh moment 🥀

@supple plume can root it for ya with 1 move

[muted olive]

TeamPCP have been providing everyone with enough to go around with

plus the claude code thing

[high cobalt]

Who or what is TeamPCP?

[muted olive]

A threat actor who has been indulging in supply chain attacks

Axios and something else were compromised in the last month

LiteLLM, thats the one

[sweet lintel]

The amount of NPM compromises that have made major news that were literally "Email dev a phishing page - Dev goes to phishing page - Steal creds - Dev has no 2FA" is too damn high

[high cobalt]

Oh goood, okay Supply Chain attacks really scare me. I kinda guess the next big incodent at work will be Supply Chain related ...

[muted olive]

Was really big too. Those packages were very popular. So just update your dependencies or install anything which uses them and boom, you're compromised.

[high cobalt]

Don't they force 2FA now?

[sweet lintel]

You'd freaking think...

[edgy jetty]

Those we've already hunted on Bugcrowd are still being sought. I'm considering picking up some programs again, so if you're smart, please send me a private message

[high cobalt]

Yeah I know. Was hunting for IoCs ... and scaring the Security Officer because my Laptop did logs to the C2 IP ... sorry I was just dumb and didn't think other people will look at it a day later and tried out if the firewall blocks the C2 IP already 🤣

[worthy cargo]

https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/new-php-composer-flaws-enable-arbitrary.html

[high cobalt]

Bruh. That's scary, bc at least GitHub does now ... remembered getting an EMail

[sweet lintel]

Yea - Github are secure - That's why all the compromises are all npm

[high cobalt]

Weird thing is ... ITS MICROSOFT, WHYYY MICROSOFT ARE YOU LIKE THIS?!

[sweet lintel]

That's the thing - It's "minimal effort" secure.

AND THAT'S ALL YOU NEED!

[muted olive]

They couldve hidden behind their Copilot shield

[high cobalt]

Another thing I don't know haha

[molten bobcat]

Had to tell a client today to narrow down their request because they have over 50 firewalls

"please provide firewall data for this timeframe"

Sure here's your 4 terabyte.csv

[high cobalt]

50 ... firewalls??? That sounds wild

[molten bobcat]

[rancid snow]

huh

[edgy jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/melvin-meme-cat-cat-meme-melvin-meme-meme-melvin-gif-5576245011655696514

[sweet lintel]

Like you know BlueSky? Major social media platform? They allow the literal word password as your actual password! They have ZERO checks!

[high cobalt]

Like are they running firewalls for different regions or how do you get 50?

[hoary dawn]

Wassup peepz 🐥 Gonna grind some HTB today been inactive af on there

[rancid snow]

I dont think your message translated well

[molten bobcat]

They were all labeled like they have different locations lol

[hoary dawn]

The knowledge is remembered though

[green kite]

👋

[green kite]

Congrats on cdsa

[molten bobcat]

Ty ty

[worthy cargo]

Hey it's Sparkles

What's up dude

[green kite]

Heya eggzy

[worthy cargo]

Where you been?

[high cobalt]

I mean technically Password123! is a strong password per policy ...

[molten bobcat]

Sure but

[green kite]

I’ve been busy with work, had an upgrade I needed to do. Took a hit mentally

[molten bobcat]

It's a weak password still

[green kite]

How’re you?

[sweet lintel]

Yes - Sure - But the literal word password ?

[molten bobcat]

Cuz commonly used phrases are a no go

Like password, or the current season and the year.

Winter2022

[sweet lintel]

The social media platform Bluesky quite literally allows you to change your password to password

[molten bobcat]

I'm aware

[zealous charm]

hunter2 is safe tho

[molten bobcat]

You've said this already

[sweet lintel]

No capital P - No 123 - No exclamation mark - No checks at all ._.

[high cobalt]

Yes but ... how do you keep user experience while forcing customers/students/employees to use strong password ...

[green kite]

Please don’t share my discord password

[zealous charm]

I set all my passwords to P@ssword1

[sweet lintel]

All I see is ******** - You're good.

[green kite]

That my bank account password

[high cobalt]

I wanted to implement at least a visual indicator for entropy ... the other devs didn't like it

[zealous charm]

Weak passwords don’t really matter if you have MFA

[sweet lintel]

At least NIST eventually updated their guidelines from 8 to 15

[green kite]

I wanted to change my password somewhere recently, threw an error because it was longer than 12 char

[hoary dawn]

I just opened my laptop and I freaking noticed I have a Beats by Dre collab laptop

[sweet lintel]

Reminds me of those "Your password cannot contain the following characters:...."

[green kite]

Oh yes, that was an issue too

[hoary dawn]

Got the lil b on it 😂

[sweet lintel]

I'm sorry for your loss.

[hoary dawn]

Thrift store cop for $30 😎☝️

[green kite]

https://tenor.com/view/jail-no-excuse-gif-24460693

[hoary dawn]

Thought it was a sticker tho tbh had to search it up then found out hp did collab with Beats by Dre 😂

[sweet lintel]

Huh - Offsec just implemented account XP / levels

[frigid mountain]

rip beats

[icy viper]

Very random question but once I move to IT, how important is a smartphone?

[zealous charm]

You cannot set your password to “P@ssword1” as a other user already has this password

[limber arch]

i bet they start selling xp multiplers

[green kite]

As long as the user is smart, you’re good

[molten bobcat]

Uhh

[green kite]

The phone can’t really make you smarter

[molten bobcat]

Most workplaces will need you to have MFA

[frigid mountain]

MFA

[molten bobcat]

And this is accomplished most commonly

[high cobalt]

You guys know how many Tickets we have to answer where applicants for a university place need to get their password reset ... guess what, half of them already even has a new mail adress ... a few weeks later ... xD

[molten bobcat]

Through an app

[sweet lintel]

Needs to be able to use 2FA apps - Okta and Microsoft / Google Auth and so on.

[icy viper]

Thinking of buying a button phone instead of using smartphone

[green kite]

That’s what recovery codes are for

[zealous charm]

Show them how serious you are and use hardware tokens

[limber arch]

I mean if your in gov they might not allow a phone in the office lol

[frigid mountain]

lol "button phone"

[molten bobcat]

Sms methods aren't as safe

[icy viper]

Yes an old school phone

[green kite]

I’m talking about a randomised word list generated that the website wants you to save somewhere

[frigid mountain]

oh I know what you mean just never in my life heard button phone

[sweet lintel]

Not many people use SMS (The term - Not the format) :p

[frigid mountain]

I use MMS for security

[icy viper]

What else do you call it? Dumb phone?

[molten bobcat]

This is a cybersecurity discord

[high cobalt]

Oh boy ... do I have stories about trying to push recovery codes ...

[sweet lintel]

Most use text / text message

[molten bobcat]

I'm aware

[green kite]

I once had a customer share me one of their recovery codes so I could log in under their account t when they were on a holiday. As their account had MFA and it cost them money to give me a separate account

[icy viper]

So button/dumb phone for personal and smartphone for work?

[sweet lintel]

If you want

[frigid mountain]

bro I swear I'm from IT. just this one time bro

[sweet lintel]

If your work needs you to have a smart phone, your work can provide you with a smart phone - But that's strictly for work. What your own phone is is up to you.

[green kite]

True story. I needed them to change something for me. But they were on a holiday, so that’s the way we did it

[icy viper]

Got a smartphone for personal use now in fact using discord on it now. Just want less distractions in personal life.

[molten bobcat]

I don't have multiple phones and I've been a successful cybersecurity person for years

[green kite]

iPhone with eSIM ftw

[molten bobcat]

If you want less distractions it's a discipline thing

I use my phone for music a lot so it helps me focus lol

[frigid mountain]

I've been struggling to transition to using a flip phone more but so far...it just sits on charging cradle. I've used it to text loved ones the number

[icy viper]

If I could use button phone for both I'd be happy lol but I also know modern world isn't equipped for button phones

[molten bobcat]

It sure ain't. The future be here brother

[sweet lintel]

Mobile Firefox + uBlock Origin + Spotify Website \o/

[icy viper]

Yeah I understand that lol

[obtuse fern]

i was too mean; conveniently it was after i banned a transphobe

[icy viper]

I miss the dumb phones though

[molten bobcat]

One of the fun thoughts I've been having lately about cybersecurity is thinking about the context behind it all

[frigid mountain]

you'll always be my favorite mod

sorry C1oud. you're #2

[obtuse fern]

i'm not joking btw, that's the stated reason as to why they stripped mod -- I was too mean

[sweet lintel]

Gotta switch your courses to THM now - RIP

[frigid mountain]

y u so mean marcie?

[molten bobcat]

Ya big meanie

[worthy cargo]

You are too mean.

[obtuse fern]

your mother

[icy viper]

Doesn't that make it political tho

[frigid mountain]

[molten bobcat]

Trans people are not politics haha

Emma herself is trans

[icy viper]

But people have different opinions

[molten bobcat]

And she works for the place

[worthy cargo]

Did you merely just ban the transphobe or did you say something mean to them?

[sweet lintel]

5 years ago I'd have agreed with you. These days? I'm not so sure.

[obtuse fern]

coincidence, allegedly, Khaotic was on vacay and it happened after he came back

[frigid mountain]

that makes literally anything political

[obtuse fern]

different opinions doesn't make it political

[worthy cargo]

Opinions are like assholes. Everyone's got one.

[obtuse fern]

i.e. liking waffles or liking pancakes. the difference of opinion does not make it political

[molten bobcat]

What I mostly mean is that if you think someone's right to live and breathe on this planet is a "political argument" I need you to sniff the bottom of the nearest trash can until you think differently

[worthy cargo]

Facts on the other hand...

[icy viper]

Maybe not politics but if someone gets banned because of their opinion where does it end

[obtuse fern]

they were banned because they weren't being respectful

[frigid mountain]

https://tenor.com/view/the-truth-harrison-ford-william-jones-the-age-of-adaline-its-the-truth-gif-18340762

[obtuse fern]

per the rules

if you want me to get technical

[icy viper]

Okay I understand my bad

[high cobalt]

It does because I will go to a holy war for one of them (/j)

[molten bobcat]

This server and htb by extension is available for all and cybersecurity is not limited to straight people or people more comfortable with their gender. It's very silly lmao.

[sweet lintel]

Did you miss a recent large-scale attack? It seems that a hundred odd millions right to live and breathe on this planet WAS a political argument ._.

[worthy cargo]

I made a joke about Israel and I got a warning, level 0.

[frigid mountain]

which?

[molten bobcat]

I can't exactly influence geopolitics to be more friendly now can I?

As much as I'd love to hold my hand up and stop the wars I can't

[obtuse fern]

point is it shouldn't be political

[icy viper]

I'm religious will I get attacked?

[sweet lintel]

Just saying - Almost anything is political these days

[molten bobcat]

No

[obtuse fern]

only if you try and use your religion to excuse your ignorance

[molten bobcat]

Your faith is your own and no one can take this from you. And it's not going to be a matter of much importance here lol

[frigid mountain]

https://tenor.com/view/get-him-south-park-its-christmas-in-canada-s7e15-seize-him-gif-22110406

[worthy cargo]

Knowledge is the cure for ignorance.

[high cobalt]

Chokolate ... idk if I like pencakes or waffless more

[rancid snow]

me being a card carrying satanist almost never comes up

[icy viper]

Is faith ignorance?

[worthy cargo]

Faith is believing without evidence.

[obtuse fern]

and when it does, it's usually REALLY funny

[frigid mountain]

Does the card get you into Satanic Blockbuster?

[molten bobcat]

Because it only has relevance to you and your own spiritual journey

Which is big fat Okay with me

[rancid snow]

I wish

it just looks dope af

[icy viper]

Sure but it's still something

[rancid snow]

but its also dirty and faded, I need a new one

[high cobalt]

You sir ... I like your thinking

[frigid mountain]

is it the old school velvet one? I know Church of Satan used to have them like that.

[worthy cargo]

Believing things without evidence is still ignorant. You don't have evidence, so that's a lack of knowledge, meaning ignorance.

[icy viper]

I know LGBT all exist and I respect them as long as they respect me.

[frigid mountain]

I use my ignorance to excuse my religion

[icy viper]

I work retail and a trans woman comes into my work as a half regular customer.

[rancid snow]

its VERY faded

Ive had it for quite a few years

[acoustic wagon]

What websites do you guys use to stay update to date on the different exploits and infected software

[rancid snow]

the tenets on the back

[obtuse fern]

discord /s

[worthy cargo]

I have trans people in my family. I grew up with them. I know this space intimately. I support and love trans people so long as they're not individually assholes. I don't like assholes of any kind.

[frigid mountain]

None?

[sweet lintel]

There were a fascinating amount of typo's in that single short sentence

[frigid mountain]

https://tenor.com/view/pulp-fiction-vincent-vega-bullshit-lies-liar-gif-17356365

[icy viper]

I mean I believe trans is the gender they were born as not as they identify as but I won't treat them any different if that makes sense?

[frigid mountain]

https://tenor.com/view/falafel-gifalafel-hazfalafel-icanhasfalafel-reaction-gif-reaction-פלאפלאנילקבליכולפלאפל-פלאפל-אנילקבליכולפלאפל-digging-gif-13411844

[rancid snow]

I mean that just means you dont understand what gender is

[worthy cargo]

Treat people how you want to be treated. Treat people how they treat you. Which one to go with?

[icy viper]

I fully understand ones biological and ones social.

[high cobalt]

Urgh being non native english speaker plus typos are the worst ...

[icy viper]

Literally both.

[rancid snow]

gender is the social construct of roles we assign to people. Sex is the biological assignment

[worthy cargo]

It doesn't cost anything to smile. 🙂

So love and respect people

PLUR

Peace. Love. Unity. Respect

[rancid snow]

and even the biological bit gets pretty wonky once you go beyond biology 101