general

[proven quartz]

You should also have an adblocker, turn off third party cookies, block trackers, etc

[rapid merlin]

Yes %100

[bitter quiver]

I used to do black coffee with 2% milk and a banana but sstomach acid issues made me move away from black coffee

[rapid merlin]

With all the features

[brittle violet]

That makes sense.

[boreal scarab]

Are you sure it was the black coffee....? TF is with the banana? XD

[finite basalt]

hmm, might look at that, at some point I may root this phone and install them but only when there are spoofs and bypasses for the successor to safety check whatever it's called

[bitter quiver]

Banana for breakfast has a stimulating effect on the brain a few research articles pointed to

So that with black coffee was a solid jump start

[finite basalt]

I believe safety net is being retired in june in favour of a new one so I don't want to risk not being able to use google wallet atm

[bitter quiver]

And the acid issues were multi-faceted, but black coffee didn't help lol

[boreal scarab]

I thought you were putting bananas into your coffee lol

[bitter quiver]

Been awhile now though like 2 years.

[bitter quiver]

Oh god no lol

Yeah, I was dunking it like a biscuit

[finite basalt]

I've never heard of that sort of banoffee before 🤔

[bitter quiver]

Nah just eaten and drank around same time has a benefit supposedly

Not like eating a banana will ever do you wrong

[proven quartz]

That wouldn't surprise people around here

[bitter quiver]

Brain likes body loves it some potassium

[finite basalt]

https://tenor.com/view/tea-dunk-mug-brew-biscuit-gif-18330717

[bitter quiver]

DId mushroom tea for a bit

Lionsmane/Reishi tea

[finite basalt]

I love that there are genuine research papers about dipping biscuits and the optimal biscuit, angle and time

[bitter quiver]

Has to br British

[novel swift]

who can help me with brutefrocing on Brute It room TASK3 ?

[bitter quiver]

I mean those brits built the ability to brew tea into their tanks because it's so mandatory.

Still to this day BRitish tanks can brew tea inside

[finite basalt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv1zjkAkSZA&ab_channel=McVitie'sUK

[proven quartz]

It's a valid area of study. Finding mushy biscuit stuff in your cuppa isn't pleasant

[finite basalt]

I shit you not it's a genuine role at mcvities 🤣

[bitter quiver]

It's the one key advantage British armor has over anyone else.

"Yes yes, nice armor and APFSDS rounds ol chap, but can it brew a nice earl grey?"

[boreal scarab]

This you?

[bitter quiver]

Stahp

I do not consent

[finite basalt]

Wrong, everyone knows earl grey is rubbish

[bitter quiver]

I drink Jasmine, Mushroom. What do BRits prefer?

[finite basalt]

It's all about yorkshire tea or assam

[bitter quiver]

Ah

I need to get good loose leaf

[finite basalt]

Although I appreciate a good thai jasmine green tea

[proven quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/star-trek-no-unhappy-patrick-stewart-gif-13236564

[bitter quiver]

Saw too many papers on microplastics from tea bags and how teabags are filled with junk tea parts

Rather use loose leave and the metal tea prong ball thing

[finite basalt]

You're a community mentor, you should know this already

I've got a new teapot for loose leaf tea actually

[bitter quiver]

A teapot designed just for loose leave?

[finite basalt]

yep 🙂

[proven quartz]

I enjoy a cup of Earl Grey from time to time

[finite basalt]

It has a tea seive built into it, I got some McEntees gold blend to have with it

[bitter quiver]

Earl grey with milk is good

I only recently started adding milk to tea

[finite basalt]

Another good one to try is barry's gold (irish)

[glass nest]

Adding Milk to.. Earl gray? Whats wrong with you?

[bitter quiver]

Also THM question, does it have a dark mode?

[finite basalt]

Recently got given some of them by my mum, not had them in years

[glass nest]

Cipher - No 1 request from Day 1, that

[proven quartz]

Some people do it

[bitter quiver]

https://tenor.com/view/that-list-never-ends-aj-too-many-on-the-list-never-ending-never-gonna-end-gif-16631133

[glass nest]

The only tea I can really stomach is Lapsang Souchon

[proven quartz]

Barry's is very popular over here. There's two main tea brands in Ireland, Barry's and Lyon's and they tell a lot about a person

[glass nest]

Tastes like asphalt an leather. Manliest tea ever

[finite basalt]

I've never tried lyon's, what's it like compared to barry's?

[crude stump]

Esqy I got 5% off the THM shop. What should I get

[proven quartz]

Lots of people do it. Not in my house, but some people... 🙄

[bitter quiver]

Weird medical fact. Tea drinkers for some reason were getting esophagal cancer at higher rates than anyone else(exluding smoking as a cause/risk). Far more than coffee drinkers and they were confused as to why.

It has to do with the temperature they are both drank at. Coffee is generally drank colder than tea, so it's the micro damage done over years of tea that was too hot.

Was one of those weird "why is a healthy thing not health" moments.

[glass nest]

Aces - the cup. Gotta keep hydrated.

[bitter quiver]

Tea is still healthy, just don't drink it scolding

[finite basalt]

Got these to enjoy 😉

[crude stump]

Bet

[proven quartz]

You're supposed to wait until either beverage has cooled to below 65 C

[bitter quiver]

YOu are why AI becomes corrupt

[wraith fjord]

Lord have mercy

[bitter quiver]

[finite basalt]

I love an iced thai green tea though with a bit of condensed milk

That shit goes hard

[bitter quiver]

I let mine cool. I havve sensitive mouth to heat lol. My wife will drink things that are so hot I can't fathom.

Yet she can't stand my shower temperatures because I need to feel the germs burn off the skin. I need to show them who is the higher functioning biological organism.

[finite basalt]

I'm less worried about throat cancer and more about pancreatic cancer 🤣

[boreal scarab]

Banana angy.

[finite basalt]

also aeropress coffee 😋

[bitter quiver]

At this point in life, I just relax and hope anything can be cured if it hits

Everything seems to just want to kill us lol

[bitter quiver]

https://tenor.com/view/stop-it-get-some-help-gif-15058124

[finite basalt]

Yeah imma live my life and enjoy it, what happens towards the end happens

[proven quartz]

That's the natural state of the universe

[shut hawk]

Bacteria just wants a nice place to call home

Unfortunately, that is us

[finite basalt]

Interestingly enough I believe it's tortoise don't get cancer because of the way their cells replace each other

[boreal scarab]

🍌

[flint sluice]

Turtles are wonderful.

[bitter quiver]

One of my favorite quotes of all time is "Entropy will always triumph."

[finite basalt]

There are quite a few animals that have preventative measures in their bodies for stopping cancer

[bitter quiver]

There is also the immortal jellyfish which can technically never die.

It reverts to polyp stage and keeps on trucking

[finite basalt]

Technically we do as well but it can work against us if cancer does develop

[glass nest]

Same with lobsters

[bitter quiver]

Someone inject jellyfish DNA into me.

[finite basalt]

Kurzgestat did a really good video about cancer and how it works

[glass nest]

Except they keep living

[bitter quiver]

SO I canlive forever and zap people

[bitter quiver]

You ever read about HELA cells?

[finite basalt]

I've not read on them but I believe they're mentioned and explained in his video

[bitter quiver]

Some girl forever ago had cancer that was basically immortal and they cultured it.

There is now more cells in existence of it in labs than she had as ahuman

Been a big part of research for cancer

They repair the telomerase every replication meaning they never "age"

Now if only we could purposely copy that crap

[proven quartz]

You're talking about Henrietta Lacks. Yeah there's ongoing debate about it. Her cells are in use all over the world in labs

[bitter quiver]

telomerase is essentially our biological fuse. As those unravel over the time we age, that's why we deterioirate

[finite basalt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoJwt9l-XhQ&ab_channel=Kurzgesagt–InaNutshell this is a really good video explaining cancer

[shut hawk]

The guy behind this channel made an amazing book

[finite basalt]

yeah his videos are amazing and really make you think as well

[shut hawk]

Would highly recommend reading

[bitter quiver]

I'll avoid diving into the argumentative side of it, but cancer being difficult is only going to be overcome with gene therapy(as we are starting to do) that is tailered per person

[bitter quiver]

ooo

Our bodies are stupidly complex

[finite basalt]

I remember watching one discussing the future of the human race and I remember thinking because I'm not really scared of death but if I wiere it'd be because I wouldn't get to see what the human race could do

[bitter quiver]

Still in 2024 they barely understand our endocrine system, our brain, and our spine.

[glass nest]

complex, and also amazing.

[bitter quiver]

95% of drugs we get from doctors they don't even freaking know how it truly works

Read the papers

Half the time it says "It is believed to impact X factor via Y method"

Why am I taken a pill fueld on belief

[finite basalt]

A lot of the information is available online if you look hard enough

[shut hawk]

Yes. Cells are cannot capable of thinking, and yet are able to coordinate with each other over a MASSIVE scale to protect your body

[finite basalt]

That'd be because we don't have a full understanding of our bodies but have seen evidence of it working, often times that sort of medication can be traced back to tribes that would do it using natural resources

[bitter quiver]

To be fair, DNA is just the code and every cell functions as an interpreter. On a microscopic cell we are literally squishy automatons

[bitter quiver]

I know why lol.

Just poking fun at the fact that most folk don't realize our medical science for as advanced as it is

Is really still very primitive

In 40 years chemotherapy will be seen to be as primitive as the labotomy

[finite basalt]

Interestingly enough I need to contact my gp and get a new consultant and get a review for my medication because the government has updated its policies about my medication

So that'll be interesting

[bitter quiver]

The only thing I do like about US healthcare vs UK or a palce with universal

Speed

I do not like, my bills

[finite basalt]

if you need something doing faster you can always go private

in the uk that is

[bitter quiver]

Granted i had knee surgery that was like 10,000 and only owed 700.

[finite basalt]

probably costs similar to the us tbh

[bitter quiver]

If you have insurance it's not bad

[rapid merlin]

Guys what's email artifacts?

[bitter quiver]

I just feel horrible for our elderly and underinsured/people suffering from poverty.

[finite basalt]

artifacts refer to traces of data left behind by actions on a device, email ones refer to traces of data left from sending or receiving emails

My advice would be to google that sort of thing, there'll be plenty of information

[rapid merlin]

Ohh alr 👍🏻

[shut hawk]

I find its mostly a hit or miss with the NHS, sometimes I'll get appointments literally on the same day while others will be a couple months

[finite basalt]

At least that's the digital forensics side of artifacts, I presume that's what you're referring to

[bitter quiver]

Google will give you good explanations on it from tech companies and professionals

[finite basalt]

I got told by my consultant to wait and see if it happened again after having a seizure followed by cardiac arrest 🤣

[rapid merlin]

Yeah I'm studying digital forensics

[shut hawk]

🫠

[bitter quiver]

Yeah here things can happen rapidly. I saw my doctor ad told her my eyes stopped working fo rabout 10 minutes th eprevious day at work. Yes it was terrifying. It was like someone ripped away the fabric of reality and there was weird colors.

She had me receiving a CT scan that same day at a womans breast cancer center(nearest open one) and a ultrasound of my arteries the next day, and an opthamology examn the 3rd.

[finite basalt]

They wouldn't do an mri so we went private for a second opinion, got my mri which came back clear and then when I had more seizures I got a eeg and a prescription

[bitter quiver]

Turns out it was just my first every "migraine with aura" but since my blood pressure has been high she wasn't playing

[shut hawk]

Atrial fibrillation?

[finite basalt]

I'm epileptic and my first seizure was ~7 minutes at which point your heart can get tired and just say fuck it

[bitter quiver]

I never knew that abou tepilepsy

Terrifying

[shut hawk]

Wow, can't imagine how scary that must have been

[finite basalt]

That's as much as I know, I was unconscious at the time

It's called SUDEP (Sudden unexplained death in epilepsy)

[bitter quiver]

Yeah I was talking to a coworker and suddenly apparently I looked like I seen a ghost, because my expression changed when I realized. I was standing.

She asked if I was okay and I said "Uh, I can't see". My very wide peripherals still worked so I was able to sit down.

But before I did I asked her to watch my face as I did all the stroke tests(eyebrows, cheeks, tongue, speech, hand raises)

I also had not eaten or dran kwater all day and it was 4pm.

[rapid merlin]

Is blt1 course enough to crack the exam?

[finite basalt]

Couldn't tell you, i've not done it

[bitter quiver]

When in doubt always do the stroke tests

Does THM have a dark mode?

[finite basalt]

I was given cpr by my mum who was a nurse and she said she'd never had to do cpr on a child let alone her own. Got to the hospital and I vaguely remember being told that my o2 sats were about 20.

It wasn't too scary for me because I was half conscious, I was more concerned about the tea that I was making before because while unconscious I dreamt that I continued to make the tea but hadn't actually done it when I woke up which messed with my head

[bitter quiver]

WOW. 20 is insane.

[finite basalt]

Not built in, if you really wanted I think there's browser plugins that can do it but it's not there on thms end iirc

[bitter quiver]

My dad has ended up in the hospital like 7 times for his hitting 70s

[finite basalt]

Tell you what, best sleep I've ever had

[bitter quiver]

But he has COPD

I cant imagine 20

YOu are basically experiencing CO2 poisoning at that point right?

[finite basalt]

I don't know, I don't remember most of it

[bitter quiver]

That do be a side effect

[bitter quiver]

Why don't these tech sites realize our geeky eyes are sensitive

[finite basalt]

I literally have 1/2 pictures in my head of what the ambulance looked like and that's about it

[bitter quiver]

SOrry you had that exp

GLad you came out of it

Triumphant

[finite basalt]

I don't mind it, war stories innit

[bitter quiver]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-victory-screech-funny-gif-25682942

[finite basalt]

It's going to be part of my dad lore eventually

[bitter quiver]

My dad lore is going to be "All the stupid shit I survived, and why I am putting you through college"

[finite basalt]

I've been seizure free for 4 years and while I'm happy about it, I was always so tired after my seizures that I slept so damn well

[bitter quiver]

One of the scariest was almost having my throat ripped out by a dude who had no idea how to use a forklift

[finite basalt]

Bruh that's fucked

I'd be ready to throw hands with the guy, I couldn't

[bitter quiver]

Yeah I was on a rider back in the day waiting for a drop at a safe distance, turn around to face the lift again and as I did the blade of the fork went under my chin as he spun it into the spot full speed

[finite basalt]

that's dreadful, I presume/hope he never drove a forklift again?

[bitter quiver]

Nah they left him on it

Worst place I ever worked

[finite basalt]

OSHA guidelines? OSHA suggestion.

[bitter quiver]

It's not hard ot be safe on equipment. I can operate almost any industrial machinery and I am anal about safey

[brisk tree]

😂😂

[bitter quiver]

That describes the new folks in this chat like 5x a day

[finite basalt]

My favourite being committee within our uni's hacking soc is messages asking if we can get into a person's phone or a "vindictive" ex

[brisk tree]

Ahahaha

[bitter quiver]

Muh ex made me angry, plz help revenge

[finite basalt]

And having to explain to them that it's not legal and it's not that easy

[bitter quiver]

Go out, improve yourself, live life to the fullest. best revenge

[finite basalt]

I felt bad though, we had a nurse whos auth app locked them out of their phone and they didn't want to lose their personal photos

[bitter quiver]

Best thing I ever had an ex say was "you weren't in that kind of shape when you were with me".

Well no, I was too depressed.

[finite basalt]

Unfortunately all the recovery stuff was off and it was one of the newer samsung devices for which there were no vulnerabilities out so she was out of luck

[bitter quiver]

I do legit recovery for folks

Even own PartedMagic for that purpose and keep it updated

But phones get wonky

PCs/Laptops are easy

[finite basalt]

I never ended up in a bad enough relationship for that. Closest was a friendzoning where I kept being led on afterfact and I stayed friends with them for a while after but she didn't give me distance when I gave her distance and it was ruining my mental health so I blocked them one day

[bitter quiver]

Aye. Friendzoning or when a girl who is generally open in an adult manner with people only wants something serious with you and commitment.

I just move on from either.

[finite basalt]

Yeah it's something I would've loved to do but the encryption would've made it impossible

[bitter quiver]

That being said. Friendzoning is a self imposed view. YOu aren't owed a relationship

[rapid merlin]

🍵

[bitter quiver]

Now if you are being trailed on, yeah move on. Otherwise friendship is valid.

[finite basalt]

when I say friendzoning I don't mean about being owed a relationship but more that they were leading me on

[bitter quiver]

RIght. I always like to clarify though when I make a statement. Met a ton of "nice guys" who felt owed shit.

[finite basalt]

I got the "i'm not ready for a relationship", "you treat me better than anyone else I've known", and outright being bitten when they were flirting

[bitter quiver]

DIfference between someone being nice and caring about you as a person, and how some folk feel entitled.

[bitter quiver]

Yeah those phrases are backburners

[finite basalt]

Yeah imo, friendzoning is absolutely a thing but gets regularly misused by people who believe they're owed a relationship

[bitter quiver]

Kill the flirt, grow the friendship with boundaries or cut it out entirely at that point.

[dreamy basalt]

hey this might be a silly question but I'm a beginner and I'm kind of getting threatened to get my instagram account hacked. Any solutions or ways to stop the attacker from doing so? or Reversing the attack somehow..

[rapid merlin]

tbh, idk anything about relationship
(never been in one)

[finite basalt]

Report them to instagram

[dreamy basalt]

I don't think that will stop them as long as they have my account username..

[bitter quiver]

Use a good password, don't be silly? Getting hacked in that sense is mostly optional unless they are a professional who is going to physically stalk you

[finite basalt]

then change your username and block them

Yeah, I distanced myself from her to benefit both of us and didn't cut her off entirely because I liked her as a friend and worked with her briefly so I worked with her friends but after a while of her trying to slide back close to me I just called it and made it nice and simple
I remember her turning up at the workplace one day as well (she'd stopped working their ages earlier) and just sat there and I just made myself busy because I wasn't ready to deal with it

[glass nest]

Good Password is the answer. 'Hacking' IG is uaully just people guessing passwords. It's one of the biggest social media platforms on earth, so a random school bully are unlikely to be able to do anything too technical

[bitter quiver]

Does IG have 2fa?

If someone hacked my IG I wouldn't care lol

[dreamy basalt]

excuse me but what do you guys mean by a good password? mine currently has some words and numbers.

[glass nest]

Same withe the regististered email address. Just a good password

[dreamy basalt]

I just enabled it for safety.

[rapid merlin]

: )

[glass nest]

Words, numbers, symbols.

[bitter quiver]

Make sure you also update the conencted emails password

[finite basalt]

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/files/Using-passwords-protect-devices-data-infographic.pdf

[bitter quiver]

AN dit's 2fa

[dreamy basalt]

??

[bitter quiver]

A lot of times what happens when folks get hacked is some site they are on has a breach. That breach leaks their email and pass. And they an use OSINT to figure out a lot of accounts from that and they try that password and ones close to it on them all

[mossy river]

Don’t click on links, block them, change your password, enable 2FA

[dreamy basalt]

will do, appreciate it everyone!

[bitter quiver]

I also keep bitdefender on my phones and computers

That littl eextra layer helps

[glass nest]

Also a comically oversized padlock.

[finite basalt]

I have keepassxc for all my stuff and keep copies of my db on different devices

[dreamy basalt]

I'm currently learning off overthewire and tryhackme, but instagram seems like a whole different thing to them so they aren't any useful yet.

[bitter quiver]

"I'm the lockpicking lawyer, today we are going to open the comically oversied padlock, with anothercomically oversized padlock in 20 seconds"

I love his vids

[dreamy basalt]

what do these apps do? bitdefender & keepassxc

[glass nest]

because its a VERY high profile target. Wouldnt surprise me if they had experienced hackers on staff to secure it constantly

[proven quartz]

Ignore people on instagram. Stick to learning from reputable sources. Don't get into unethical things. Overthewire is great for learning Linux/Bash. You should try UnderTheWire to learn about Powershell too

[bitter quiver]

Bitdefender is a anti-virus/security program that can run at several levels(such as remote wiping and locking your phone through your PC), keeppass is a password manager.

A lot of people like me and him will use password managers(I use paid ones) and use complex unique passwords for every site/account because we rely on the manager to remember the 10,000 passwords

So you have to be extra careful with 1 account, and the rest are generally hard to get into

[bitter quiver]

Think he was mostl yjust asking how to protect himself

[dreamy basalt]

I appreciate it. but this guy might not be lying when he said that he will hack into my account, and I have to consider adding a layer of safety because of that.

[dreamy basalt]

I would always welcome more ways of protecting myself!

[bitter quiver]

Bitdefender costs but there are free versions.

I trust paid services because you are going to get faster updates and extra features.

[dreamy basalt]

Thanks, I'll look them up and give them a try.

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @bitter quiver (current: #1001 - 3)

[storm marten]

Um...hello👀

[dreamy basalt]

fair enough

[bitter quiver]

Like on PC it offers ransomeware protection if you enable it. You can do that yourself for free, but I'm lazy.

[bitter quiver]

Greetings. SOrry was lost i nconvo

Oh that's ancient

2 days back lol

[storm marten]

Yup

[bitter quiver]

What steps have you taken to jump in so far?

[dreamy basalt]

another quick question, is Kali Linux good for windows 11? I have been using command prompt to practice recently but I heard that Kali Linux is better..

[glass nest]

@mossy river

[mossy river]

@grizzled roost please don’t advertise here

[storm marten]

Well...i just joined THM a while back and finished my first room
Turns out I have to go premium to continue...

[simple valve]

I don’t think they’re of the same category

Kali Linux is a Linux distro, the command prompt is just well, a GUI terminal for Windows

[glass nest]

Anonymous - You can skip the premium rooms if you can't get it just yet. Look at the pinned threads, Shadow has done a Freepath of sorts

[grizzled roost]

i just need input on my article i specificly wrote that but sorry if its againts the community guidelines

[bitter quiver]

For one the commands in linux will differ from Windows...Also learn Powershell vs cmd

[storm marten]

Alright thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @glass nest (current: #19 - 395)

[mossy river]

Command prompt and the Linux command line are not as comparable as you think.

Check out the pre security and the introduction to cyber path https://tryhackme.com

[dreamy basalt]

Perhaps I have seen tutorials of people using Kali Linux for Overthewire and those things, I'm using command prompt meanwhile..

[dreamy basalt]

will do, thanks!

[simple valve]

You can use anything for that, you just need SSH

[dreamy basalt]

appreciate it.

[bitter quiver]

Kali linux will run heavily in command line, but Linux is a different operating system than Windows.

[proven quartz]

Report him to Instagram and local law enforcement then and block him

[dreamy basalt]

yeah that's how I usually pass the first levels

[proven quartz]

Just install Linux in a VM and go to town with it

[bitter quiver]

^

VirtualBox, get the add ons, download Kali or ParrotOS, then above all else be smart and legal.

[dreamy basalt]

It wasn't a direct threat, he was just stating that he had experience with hacking accounts in the past and I was denying his statement, then you know..

[bitter quiver]

Never argue with edgy kids

[mossy river]

That’s how you know they have zero experience with hacking

[glass nest]

'hacking acounts' at that level is little more than guessing passwords.

[dreamy basalt]

Thanks, I guess I will download kali Linux, VMware, and virtual box to start my cybersecurity journey!

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @bitter quiver (current: #807 - 4)

[dreamy basalt]

Understandable 😂.

[mossy river]

Either or, VMware or VBox

Too slow 😛

[bitter quiver]

The only way he is goin gto be able to "legit" hack your account is to get you to click a link on your phone/PC and log into a fake site. I mean there are acouple other wise but it's not gonn ahappen.

[dreamy basalt]

Either way I wanted to take security actions for now and later on situations.

[bitter quiver]

So follow the rule of "Never click anything"

[mossy river]

That’s not really hacking the account, that’s hacking them.

Brute forcing would be the only likely way to hack their account

[bitter quiver]

I won't eve nclick my emails. I go to the site and login when I see a notice on anything

[mossy river]

Even then it’s playing loosely with the term “hack”

[dreamy basalt]

Been on this for a long time.

[bitter quiver]

I trust email as much as I trust a company CEO

[dreamy basalt]

email can sometimes be used for hacking though can't it?

[mossy river]

Phishing primarily

[bitter quiver]

Aren't a larve volume of real world hacks simply human error/failure to avoid?

Still call it hacking

[mossy river]

I didn’t say it wasn’t called hacking

[glass nest]

Pretty much. people are the worst.

[bitter quiver]

Gotcha

[dreamy basalt]

Since Cipher stated that they can get your info by a single link click, emails seem to be a good option for hackers..?

[mossy river]

No they can’t

[bitter quiver]

There was a fun trend awhile back where people would do vishing, and leave you voicemails where the message was something like "Yeah I know it's urgent, I'm trying to call him right now so we ca-" and it hangs up to get folks t ocall.

[mossy river]

They rely on you inputting information into their fake website

[bitter quiver]

^

[dreamy basalt]

Also, what do you mean by this, I'm starting with both of those softwares how are they slow 😅

[mossy river]

But you shouldn’t still click on links because you can never be 100% sure

[mossy river]

Someone sent the same message as me

[bitter quiver]

So it wil pretend to be an otificaiton from instagram ,and when you click it you need to "log in" like you normally would. But it's not really instagram

[dreamy basalt]

So when you call someone they can obtain your information?

[dreamy basalt]

oh I thought you meant the softwares being too slow haha.

[mossy river]

I think you have watched too many movies lmfao

[bitter quiver]

Yeah.

If they do homework on you this is how they go from phishing, to spear phishing, to whaling.

But usually

It's a scam to get you on the line for a product

[dreamy basalt]

most likely 😂

[mossy river]

Phishing still relies on the person giving the information

[dreamy basalt]

fair

[mossy river]

I have shown people how easy it is to get information out of people purely through talking to them

I spread a lot of phishing awareness whenever I get the chance to talk 😛

[bitter quiver]

Had an email one time from another supervisor that seemed odd. I did the thing where I leaned back and yelled to him "Yo, you send me this asking for this?!" Nope.

Looked like it came from him as well but it was too odd.

When in doubt, just always confirm with "the" people

[dreamy basalt]

I'm not that new, I know tons of hacking ways I just don't know how to hack myself, or protect myself from hackers.

[bitter quiver]

Issue with your bank account? Hang up and call your actual bank or go into one.

Someone collecting a bill? Kindly ask them from who, then get ahold of the actual people.

I trust no one lol

[mossy river]

You’d be surprised, even the best people in the field can slip up

[bitter quiver]

My wife has a pass phrase so I can ensure she isn't replaced by a an alien doppleganger

[dreamy basalt]

that's funny

[bitter quiver]

https://tenor.com/view/futurama-serious-stare-suspicious-gif-5319823

[dreamy basalt]

everyone makes mistakes at some point, no one's perfect.

[mossy river]

There’s mistakes and then there’s ignorance

[bitter quiver]

Well I mean at a certain point, you feel so good with the shield you carry you forget it's own limitations

THen errors kick in

[mossy river]

Just because you’re the best doesn’t mean you’re hack proof

[dreamy basalt]

This is the future me 😂

[bitter quiver]

Remember dude who felt soconfidence in his SSN protection company he posted his own on TV and a truck and got obliterated?

[dreamy basalt]

yeah people usually when they obtain a very high power, they become egotistic which leads to their downfall.

[bitter quiver]

That's just 95% of American upper management.

You get used to working with em.

I am lucky to have experienced 3 solid leaders who gave me all my skills as a leader

And whom I owe my success to

Because I use their style to do the same for others

[dreamy basalt]

Surrounding yourself with who you want to become is always the best way of achieving it.

[bitter quiver]

But 3 solid leaders ove almost 40 years of life isn't a lot

[glass nest]

This is why I work alone. I wanna become the best Esqy ever 😄

All the other Uncle esqys are just imitating.

[bitter quiver]

My current expertise is process development, developing teams, developing and implementing training, building KPI tools. I don't get to work alone

It surprises people when I say I'm ready for a kid because a kid can't throw anything at me an adult hasn't

From the vomit, to the pooing on the floor, to imaginary friends, to tantrums.

[dreamy basalt]

Perhaps I will go and Install Kali Linux, VMware, & Vbox to start off my cybersecurity journey. Thanks everyone!

[bitter quiver]

I feel bad because one time I was carrying a dude who wasn't doing so hot off the floor at an old job and he suddenly just started firing puke and I legit let him go and he went flying to the floor lol.

Sorry but freaking warn me

[bitter quiver]

You don't install both vmware and vbox

Pick one

They both do the same thing

[mossy river]

VMware free is more limited than VBox

But I prefer VMware for its performance, and I don’t care for snap shotting

[bitter quiver]

Yeah, I always recommend VIrtual Box if you aren't paying.

Especially for learning

First thing I did getting into linux was Virtual box and like 8 instances with different linux flavors

CentOS, Ubuntu, Puppy, Arch, Kali, Pop!, etc

Just to play around

See how different forks work

[dreamy basalt]

In conclusion, which one is better to install and begin with..?

[glass nest]

I notice Arch was hidden in the middle there 😄

[bitter quiver]

I always say Virtualbox

[bitter quiver]

We have all at one point or another stared into the void

[dreamy basalt]

in Virtual Box we begin

[glass nest]

Some are inspired, some are driven mad and others.. simply run away.

[bitter quiver]

Here for fun

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

Just to show you have varied linux is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions#/media/File:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

Unzoomed version

I love this

[dreamy basalt]

how do you even manage to understand that

[glass nest]

Although - keep it simple. Kali or ubuntu.

[bitter quiver]

Same way I understand cars

Same concept of evolution, branding style. Forking like Gasoline, Deisel, Electric

[glass nest]

Easy install, up and running quickly

[dreamy basalt]

I just clicked on a link, I'm getting hacked!

[bitter quiver]

Muahahaha, he fell for it lads

https://tenor.com/view/hacker-hackerman-kung-fury-gif-7953536

No but seriously, @glass nest 's recommendations are solid

I'd do both Kali and Ubuntu

Use Ubuntu to learn how people use Linux as a daily driver, a replacement for Windows

[glass nest]

Aye, no point in making it harder than it needs to be 😄

[bitter quiver]

Use Kali only in tandem with THM

Kali shouldn't be used for daily things

It's designs make it not really fit for that

[glass nest]

Well... Unless you THM daily 😄

[bitter quiver]

Yeyeeee

I have a google chrome account that is ONLY for tech

Opens to these pages daily

[glass nest]

baking tasty session cookies, you mean

[bitter quiver]

https://tenor.com/view/yumm-delicious-gif-18409602

Time for some more cold brew while I bang out some SOC courses

Before the wife awakens

[fast inlet]

How much does Metasploit Pro cost? Rapid7 sells Metasploit Pro through distributors. Those businesses make their own decisions on the sales price, deciding how far they want to squeeze their margins to win business from rival software retailers. The current price for Metasploit Pro is around $15,000 per year.

// 15k per year? Hot damn

[naive violet]

It's not the same product as metasploit by any means though

[glass nest]

Have you got access to it where you work James?

[bitter quiver]

Wouldn't anything a "metasploit pro" offer be something you can generally do yourself?

[naive violet]

Nope

[glass nest]

Ahh ok. Is it like night and day difference though?

[naive violet]

It's a very different product

[glass nest]

Seems a bit disingenuious to label it the 'pro' of another product

[naive violet]

Profiting off the FOSS module developers work? Pretty usual

[glass nest]

hehe, fair point

[naive violet]

Esqy, persuade me not to order some more boards from China

Approx £3, some radio stuff

[glass nest]

You are asking the wrong person for that, I'm afraid.

https://tenor.com/view/waynes-world-garth-dana-carvey-we-fear-change-fear-change-gif-21858748

Not the caption, but thats how I see your workshop

[bitter quiver]

That's a great workshop

[fast inlet]

yeah i wonder how many more capabilities it's got vs the standard free version

[bitter quiver]

Wife doesn't understand all my wires and little toys. Raspberry pis, arduino, bread boards.

"Clean it up"

Cruelty at it's finest

[fast inlet]

thought it would be like burp suite pro vs free but they're doing things differently

[glass nest]

'Look dear, once I finish this, it'll clean itself up!'

[fast inlet]

especially with that average price that came up

[bleak dagger]

where shoupd i look to purchase used electronics

im in the uk btw

[glass nest]

Gumtree and Facebook marketplace?

also CEX, but it's kinda overpriced.

[sick lance]

Ebay.

[glass nest]

In plymouth we have a few pawn shops called 'Wants'. sometimes find the odd gem in there

[sick lance]

Cash generator, but it's full of totally non stolen stuff

[glass nest]

Oh Scotland. Never change 😄

[sick lance]

One of my Uni peers claims he's banned from CeX for trading in fake earpods.

Like, not just one, lol

[buoyant crane]

Good morning are you guys familiar with this site (https://tryhackme.chargebee.com/). I'm being requested to update my payment record.

[glass nest]

@mossy river Might know, or one of the other THM staff

[sick lance]

Yes, it's legit.

[glass nest]

or scrubz.

😄

[sick lance]

You'll find this link at the bottom of all your invoices or receipts. 🙂

It's also in the pinned posts of #site-support

[buoyant crane]

@sick lance Thanks for confirming.

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sick lance (current: #2 - 2001)

[umbral bay]

👋

[glass nest]

Afternoon timt 🙂

[umbral bay]

Any new divine revelations made with the laser printer? 😄

[glass nest]

other than my 'original hacker tool' aka a cap'n crunch whistle?

more focused on the woodwork at the moment

[umbral bay]

Capn'n Crunch whistle 😄

[glass nest]

Gotta represent the old hackers somehow

[umbral bay]

If this is going to be a series, recommend CrackerJack next. 😎

[glass nest]

Are any of those hacking tools?

They look like rings and dogs and stuff

[umbral bay]

American snack, popular during baseball games 😄

[glass nest]

Ahh. freedom snacks.

What sport to you watch during NFL downtime?

[umbral bay]

Euro football and baseball. 🥳

[glass nest]

Euros this summer, IIRC

[sick lance]

Yeah

[near hawk]

England will probbaly lose agin in the final

[glass nest]

Once they go the distance (and people buy pizza when they watch) then i'm happy 😄

[near hawk]

The Table they're in is pretty easy

[sick lance]

No Scotland no party!

[glass nest]

England have... Slovenia, Denmark and Serbia

[near hawk]

Denmark will be the hard team in the group

[sick lance]

Germany, Hungry and Switzerland

[near hawk]

Scotland will most likely make it through, Germany they will lose to Hungary is pretty good team but I reckon they'll go to the semi

[sick lance]

We're just happy to be there tbh 😎

It's our performances that let is down to smaller teams.

[near hawk]

I'm just waiting for the day they put all the UK countries in one group and battle it out

[sick lance]

That could be chaos, but cheaper away games.

Not that I go

[near hawk]

Sunday leagues are more entertaining

[rapid merlin]

Good afternoon

[glass nest]

from watching NHL I find tha league games are more exciting than national or All-Star games. In the league games, the player are used to playing together and they train together. With the national ones, they probably train for like a month or less beforehand

[rapid merlin]

I used to enjoy NHL when I played hockey

Fights always made me laugh

[bitter quiver]

Yooo. The trick to cause old payphones to hang up right?

Watched 8-Bit Guy do a special on phone phreaking

God tech was amazing in the analogue days

[bleak dagger]

fr

[glass nest]

Cipher - That was the idea. Send a 'Call ended' signal while keeping the carrier line open

[bleak dagger]

anywhere else guys

[glass nest]

Theres no secret hacker tech depot, if thats what you are after 😄

Gumtree, Facebook market, ebay, local pawn shops.

[proven quartz]

There are engineers, electronics experts, motorcycle mechanics and more who have what looks like a messy workspace, but you dare clean that place up and you're messing with an organisational platform that's taken years to form. That individual has everything exactly where it's supposed to be, so you don't dare move anything

[stable delta]

Hi, anyone done the CREST CRT exam recently? Would you recommend any machines to do on THM? Happy to hear any suggestions.

[glass nest]

You can sometimes find stuff on john Pye auctions, but theres a hefty fee - 20% I think. sometimes you can get a bargain despite that

Or gavels is another one

although the latter tends to be more liquidation of businesses

[sick lance]

@naive violet may be the best to ask about this.

[raven moth]

hi

[sick lance]

Hello.

[naive violet]

Nope not crest here

I went the other way, CyberScheme

[sick lance]

Ah, my mistake.

[naive violet]

They're equivalent so if the practical is similar difficulty then it's easy THM level IMO @stable delta

[stable delta]

OK thanks for the info. So HTB easy (compared with THM easy) would maybe be more difficult than the practical?

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @naive violet (current: #1 - 2101)

[naive violet]

In terms of HTB, I believe they have a CRT "track"

I can't speak for the quality or how representative it is

[stable delta]

I've been doing that track and it seems like a mess. There are hard and insane boxes on there which would not be on the exam. Especially since the exam is now closed book with no internet access for research.

[naive violet]

I think I had the same thoughts about hard/insane appearing on there

And closed book in 2024 for hacking is insane. CyberScheme are the same, although there's a workstation you can use to google stuff

[glass nest]

Whats the rules about just.. y'know, hosting your own notes, and using the worksation to access them?

[naive violet]

I mean if you're gonna host your own notes...

[glass nest]

Even just on Notion or something

[naive violet]

Actually yeah CyberScheme are open book, just non internet iirc?

They let you bring notes etc, even your own Kali now

[glass nest]

Do they have the same limitations on using Metasploit like OSCP has/had?

[sick lance]

I was not allowed to bring in my own VM for Malware Analysis 😦

[naive violet]

Nope

[proven quartz]

Nobody else limits your tools like that really these days. The justification for OSCP is because you should be able to do a lot of the things you do in a pentest by demonstrating your understanding of the method, and not just using an automated tool, which is fair enough. It also cuts down the size of their exam environment. If you know the content, you should be able to do the OSCP exam in the space of a long working day and I've heard of people doing it in as little as 6 hours. Then you have another 24 hours to do the report.

Practically all other junior pentesting certs expect a multi-day pentest and report submission

[blazing granite]

Hello, Hello hacking people!!! 🙂 how are you?

Esqy how are you???

[pine stratus]

good hbu???

[glass nest]

Aye, I get that and respect it, too. Otherwise everyone with the cert would just be more... 'Admin' rather than hacking

[blazing granite]

I'm OK, getting used to a bit lost 😂

[glass nest]

Living The Dream, rex. Gonna head into the workshop in a bit

[proven quartz]

Well lots of hacking is just using the same tools the admins use, just the way the admins wouldn't normally use them 😛

[dreamy basalt]

hey quick question, sometimes when I try to enter a file or let's say cd into a file it starts letting me enter text or whatever, how do I get out of that mode..

[blazing granite]

Great Esqy

[glass nest]

Admin as in.. Clerical work

Stupid IT, warping regular terms 😄

[proven quartz]

cd is to change directory. Are you thinking of vi/vim or nano?

[dreamy basalt]

I'm just trying to play the overthewire game

and I don't know how to get out of that changing phase

[glass nest]

Aww. I thought this was the rite of passage of learning how to exit Vim 😄

[proven quartz]

Oh then just follow the instructions on the game. If you don't know how to do something, you need to follow the instructions they give you. They do have their own Discord to talk about their stuff btw

[dreamy basalt]

I did something by messing around with general commands and not their game

also may I have their discord in dms? I can't seem to find it.

[glass nest]

did you type 'vi' at all?

[proven quartz]

The secret is, you can never exit vim. It's in your mind now and you've built your life around it

[blazing granite]

:q! 🙂

[glass nest]

It's a closely guarded secret, Rex!

[blazing granite]

I even used vi 🙂

[glass nest]

Rain - if you were typing random stuff, it could be the command line waiting for an input. CTRL-C will usually cancel whatever it's waiting for.

[dreamy basalt]

it worked, thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @glass nest (current: #19 - 396)

[dreamy basalt]

how do I exit a directory 😅

[glass nest]

cd .. to go up one level

cd ~ to go back to home directory and cd \ to go to root

[blazing granite]

what you can't exit is learning 😂

[glossy portal]

I'd recommend getting a grasp on Linux priv esc on THM first

[blazing granite]

and googling 😂

[glass nest]

Maybe do a room/course on basic Linux commands?

[dreamy basalt]

I think I need one, I just directly went to play the game

[glass nest]

Or a youtube video, there are tons

[dreamy basalt]

any good room/course recommendations..?

[glossy portal]

https://tryhackme.com/module/linux-fundamentals

[sick lance]

https://linuxjourney.com/lesson/the-shell

Is a good interactive website for learning Linux.

[glass nest]

foundations are important. Theres likely an expected level of knowledge, even if it's simply 'How to use the CLI/terminal in linux'

[glossy portal]

Also hi, how are you all doing?

[glass nest]

Oh hey Shei. Didn't see you sneak in

[glossy portal]

I'm a sneaky boi

[dreamy basalt]

thanks yall

[glass nest]

Like a ninja

[glossy portal]

How are you doing today?

[naive violet]

Hey!

[sick lance]

Only one ninja around these parts.

[glass nest]

Yeah, but there are a plethora of Jameses

[naive violet]

@glass nest So I could buy a board for £2.40+tax, so £2.88
Or get 5/10 PCBs for £3 and then parts for sub £1/board...

I should just get some boards made. More fun that way.

It's slightly more if I want one.
It's way cheaper if I want two or more.

[glass nest]

you're worrying over 22p

[naive violet]

Well, more the age old dilemma.

Buy or build?

[sick lance]

Build!

[glass nest]

You want instant use, or the glory of building

[naive violet]

Buy would also be from China

[sick lance]

Longer postage then.

[glass nest]

Why not both? I mean - The whole lot will be less than a tenner

And if you bork up a board, it's just a case of waiting

[naive violet]

because the premade ones are 51 ohms instead of 50 ohms and that's unacceptable I mean they'd work but also how bad are they likely to be?

[glass nest]

Can you upgrade that part?

[naive violet]

Not easily

Without paying £5/ea you can't get decent 50 ohm resistors. You can get 2x100 though and put them in parallel

[glass nest]

Well, if you need the one-less ohm, your choice is made 😄

(Misread it originally)

[coral current]

Hi, can I get 3 votes for reset ad enumeration room : https://tryhackme.com/room/adenumeration

[naive violet]

#enumerating-ad
There's lots of instances of each network, please specify what instance you're on when asking for reset votes.

[coral current]

tnx

[naive violet]

@glass nest I mean look how cool it looks

[glass nest]

Looks like a campsite layout plan

[naive violet]

I could probably make it look nicer by changing the snap angle for the traces to allow 15 degree snaps

[shut hawk]

How are you creating that design? I really like the graphic style

[naive violet]

It's just kicad

[narrow hawk]

Random queston - Is it that Wreath requires the browser attack box or is it 2 different rooms for it?

[shut hawk]

Cool. Looks complicated 😆

[naive violet]

It's just a triangle

If you look closely, you'll see that it's identical to get from any port to any other port on the board

[sick lance]

Attackbox or VM.

[naive violet]

Not sure what you mean by "2 different rooms for it"

[buoyant tree]

Heya @naive violet a question since you probably have more experience with this.

I found a IDOR in a wordpress addon, and I think its qualifies as a CVE so should I report it to wpscan or wordfence for the CVE

[narrow hawk]

I found the support ticket. There are 2 different rooms for wreath. One is thm.com/rooms/wreath and the one that works is wreath.com/jr/wreath

[naive violet]

That's the same room, but different URLs

/jr/ means "join room"

It joins the room via the room code.

[narrow hawk]

yep what the thm support team sent me back in dec

[naive violet]

Pick one

[naive violet]

It's so tempting to put an all-seeing eye int he middle

[narrow hawk]

Do you want me to show you the support ticket response? That was the suggestion that I got back when. I guess I never went back to complete it from where my progress is saved. It seems like Wreath likes to go to sleep and not wake up and ping doesnt knock it lose.

[naive violet]

I think you're misunderstanding something about how the site works

tryhackme.com/jr/wreath will join you to the room Wreath, located at tryhackme.com/room/wreath

[narrow hawk]

More trusting the THM support team that handles the tickets.

[naive violet]

Suspect you're misunderstanding their response too

They're all the same thing

One link just directly puts you into the room

[narrow hawk]

If you would like I can email you the response.

[sick lance]

You're also misunderstanding James.

[narrow hawk]

Hmm hold on I'll screen shot it and put it into chat

[naive violet]

I'm not THM staff

But I've been here for what, 4 and a bit years?

[sick lance]

Yeah!

Thats why you're a senior mod and contributer.

[narrow hawk]

Well boo I can't. I'll pm it to you.

[rapid merlin]

hi guys im new here

whats about this chat

[sick lance]

Somebody not understanding a response.

Welcome!

[mossy river]

Please ask before DMing^

[glass nest]

Hey Jabba. working on anything cool, or is it normal uni busywork?

[glass nest]

Very ralexander-ey 😄

[storm quarry]

i am new to 'hacking'. where should i start

[mossy river]

Woke up nice and early, travelled to Coventry, came back and showered, ate what I thought was a green bean but turned out to be a spicy hot chilly, slept on the dining room table and then went shopping.

Now I have work, start my assignment and hopefully a short gaming session before I fall asleep on the floor

[sick lance]

#start-here have a read over here.

[glass nest]

Have a look at #start-here , 6 🙂

[mossy river]

https://tryhackme.com/

[glass nest]

Ooooh, and Esqy beats Scrubz by a hair!

[sick lance]

Not on my chat...

[storm quarry]

thanks everyone

[glass nest]

sounds typical, Jabz

[sick lance]

We need a judge.

[mossy river]

You know that you both showing screenshots proves nothing, you need a third party 😆

[glass nest]

Must have been the exact same time

[mossy river]

Scrubz was first

[sick lance]

Yeah!

Scrubz rules!

[mossy river]

You can also validate by refreshing your client

[naive violet]

I've done that green bean thing before... The shock makes it worse

[glass nest]

Fine, I'll concede. On this occasion.

[mossy river]

It wasn’t even like a crunch crunch oh no that’s a chilli, it was literally immediate. My whole mouth immediately started burning

[near hawk]

Yep Scrubz was first on mine

[mossy river]

And what was worse was someone drank all the milk and didn’t replace it!

[glass nest]

Well, now I see where I stand 😄

[naive violet]

Now I'm going to grab some pickled chillis mmmm

[glass nest]

In the shadow of Scrubz...

[mossy river]

I’m usually okay with spice but I was really tired and not in the mood for the burning sensation

[glass nest]

I was gonna say, why even have something that volitile laying around

Any curious rabbits could have munched on it

[mossy river]

It was in my curry hah

[tired peak]

y'all know whats great? chili crunch

[mossy river]

I’m pretty sure that’s the second time I bit into a chilli from the exact same Indian restaurant

You’d be surprised how much I don’t learn from my mistakes - nobody comment on that

[glass nest]

Oh, Jabba - Have you ever spoken to ElizabethNoir about Music? she linked me a few really great tunes/artists

[tired peak]

I've had that happen, where I ate a pepper that was in the dish, not exactly sure if it wasn't meant to be eaten... and I had to drink a gallon of water as a result

[mossy river]

I believe I have

[glass nest]

Oh good. She was almost challenging your self-given title 😄

[mossy river]

Rookie mistake -- never water

[tired peak]

nah water is fine, you hold it in your mouth

[glass nest]

Zojja is no rookie when it comes to spicy food 😄

[tired peak]

I do not drink milk

it subsides after a while and then you be like "damn that was good"

[mossy river]

Excuse me, I was elected by a group of like minded individuals - the "voices" in my head

[mossy river]

Temporary relief at the cost of a worse burning sensation

[glass nest]

Hold it forever.

What about an ice-cube Zojj? I have very little experience with spice like that

[tired peak]

like I said, it will subside

[mossy river]

Just as it will by sitting through it 😄

Bread is a great one

[tired peak]

I did it a couple months ago at a vietnamese restaurant

[glass nest]

Oooh Vietnamese food is the best - Better than the surrounding places like Laos or Myanmar/Burma

[mossy river]

Don't think I've tried it

[glass nest]

Food in Thailand was... and I don't use this lightly... scrum-diddily-uptious. But Vietnamese food was another notch higher

Although Thai has this thing.. Mango and coconut over rice. Sounds odd, but it's so good.

[loud marlin]

the color what we see, when we close our eyes is called eigengrau

[near hawk]

For spice Pineapple is pretty good to cool down

[mossy river]

Yes, it is acidic, good for spice

[brisk tree]

Did heath Adam’s make any of the tryhackme rooms

[mossy river]

TCM?

[brisk tree]

Yeah. It my task for my internship

Got to find his room and the exploits

[mossy river]

Oh yikes, we can't help with that here sorry

[brisk tree]

Ahahaha it’s ok I just found it

It’s an oisnt task and was getting all the wrong stuff when researching but found it

[mossy river]

the task is to test your skills, not ours 😉

[glass nest]

ooh, Scottish - was was ferarri world? did you brave that swaying coaster?

[brisk tree]

Ahaha this was the last resort 😂 but I found it ahaha

[brisk tree]

Hell no 😂

[sick lance]

Probably not tall enough to get on 😂

[mossy river]

I forgot my VM pin 😭

[brisk tree]

I ain’t doing that. Looked like it was going to snap

[sick lance]

Why are you adding an S?

[mossy river]

Screenshot hot key

[sick lance]

Ah!

Just use a camera at an awkward angle.

[glass nest]

Why is there a space in the title?

[mossy river]

Firstname Lastname

[shut hawk]

hack it

[mossy river]

Win11 doesn't let your name just be "TryHackMe" smh

[glass nest]

'the names Me. Tryhack Me'

[brisk tree]

I’m 5 foot 3

I’m average height for a woman ahaha

[mossy river]

I'm meant to be doing THM work 😭

[sick lance]

Uh oh.

[glass nest]

WeeMadScottishBurd

[shut hawk]

you tried 1111?

[mossy river]

I remember thinking "Oh 1234 might be a security risk" and then I slightly changed it FML

[shut hawk]

4321?

[sick lance]

1324

[glass nest]

6969?

[mossy river]

YOU LEGFEND

Scrubz, it's like you're in my brain

[shut hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/hmm-suspect-gif-22611582

[glass nest]

He just an elite hackerman

[shut hawk]

Scrubz that's kinda sus

[mossy river]

I mean- uh- no that's not my pin

[sick lance]

I really hope you either..

a) Change the pin

b) delete this chat.

[mossy river]

It's a VM with an encrypted drive dw

It is also being nuked when I have finished

[naive violet]

That's your first mistake, encrypting the disk

[brisk tree]

hahahaha

[naive violet]

Gotta make it easy to backdoor

[mossy river]

Have to, VMware 16 won't let you enable TPM otherwise

[naive violet]

Or just sethc it yourself

Use the workarounds to nuke TPM

Oh VMware encryption not bitlocker?

[mossy river]

Yes yes, I just needed a temporary Windows machine as mine is modified to hell and looks terrible for screenshots n stuff

for example, my transparent taskbar

[shut hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/brooklyn-nine-nine-terry-jeffords-why-b99-brooklyn99-gif-21715381

[shut hawk]

does a solid bg just not look as good?

[mossy river]

Correct

[sick lance]

Almost looks as good as mine.

[mossy river]

But it means that programs look out of place

[sick lance]

Computer, what are you doing...

[mossy river]

Accidentally allocated all my cores to my VM and my pc froze oopsie

Today is not a good day

[sick lance]

Take a rest...

[sick lance]

SUS!

[shut hawk]

Esqy takes the W on this one

[glass nest]

Haha

[shut hawk]

https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11

[sick lance]

I suppose, default wallpapers are better, as they're harder to assign to someone.

[mossy river]

Here is what it looks like, which is why I said out of place

[sick lance]

I can't use Arc Browser because I'm not on W11

[shut hawk]

well you could switch to lightmode and it'd look better

[glass nest]

Back in the day, people were all about chaging BG, icons, sounds, mouse pointer... Never got into all that

[sick lance]

ANSWER YOUR DM'S

[mossy river]

You're so lucky I can't joke ban people anymore

[sick lance]

OF DELETE THEM, lol

[mossy river]

they're friend requests

[sick lance]

Oh come on.

[mossy river]

-T1

[sick lance]

Trying to bypass a W7 firewall.

[mossy river]

Evading fw?

[shut hawk]

-T1 💀

[brisk tree]

😂

[mossy river]

hahaha that got a laugh out of me

I read it in his voice too

[naive violet]

You know in the UK they have to keep a record of it for 2 years too?

[shut hawk]

oh no

[brisk tree]

Really

[naive violet]

It's my favourite way of scaring non-techies

Tell them your ISP has to keep records of your network activity for two years, and then tell them that includes incognito too

[buoyant tree]

Can't decide

[naive violet]

Flip a coin

[buoyant tree]

me using custom dns and https and a vpn

Heads = WPscan
Tails = Wordfence

[jade bobcat]

Funny thing ...... do they know that may be happening? lol

[buoyant tree]

guess its wordfence

[mossy river]

VPN company selling your data /s

[shut hawk]

huh

isn't that...tails? 🤣

[buoyant tree]

oh yea

[naive violet]

You don't even have to go into conspiracy theories, it's great

[buoyant tree]

I need some sleep probably

wpscan it is

[sick lance]

8 hours Oh boy

That scan is getting binned.

[naive violet]

@glass nest I went with build

[glass nest]

Good good

[brisk tree]

This must taste amazing

[sand trench]

hammers cpu to 100% just to update linux kernel

[cosmic pendant]

Or

Using VPNs that aren't using Quantom safe crypto that is being collected in bulk

and soon to be broken

[sand trench]

ah yes that problem

[boreal scarab]

Normal day in Linux Land

[tired peak]

sounds so gross

[brisk tree]

I remember once my cpu got to over 300 degrees C 😂

[sand trench]

that is bad.... the safety switch off is around 100°C

[brisk tree]

It kept cutting out. I got a new cpu then realised i probably just needed thermal paste

[shell nova]

300 is not possible....

that would fry it for sure

[buoyant tree]

got that setting enabled in mullvad

although haven't bothered to read the details

[blazing granite]

https://tenor.com/view/rip-coffin-black-ghana-celebrating-gif-16743302

[naive violet]

@shell nova Designed my first SMT board and sent if off for fab

[buoyant tree]

question was it in the oven?

[boreal scarab]

My Pihole says otherwise

[naive violet]

Hihi Matt

[brisk tree]

😂

[boreal scarab]

Heyo James

[blazing granite]

that doesn't sound good 😂

[brisk tree]

Ahaha no think the thermal paste got dry

[cosmic pendant]

Pihole is on the sun?

[buoyant tree]

You always exceed expectations

[boreal scarab]

How else would I keep it cool? 🤔

[naive violet]

Also Matt do you want to be in the radio thread?

[sick lance]

I'll get past this firewall, if it's the last thing I do angrily shakes fist

[glass nest]

use the firedoor

[wintry sluice]

use water-type attack

[naive violet]

Apparently firedoors can't have Windows

[sick lance]

I said past it, not through it.😂

[near hawk]

Climb over it

[normal fable]

Throw water on it.
Morning.

[wintry sluice]

is that moles breakfast?

[boreal scarab]

If moles eat fish. Yes

I got the free food hookup on this one

[buoyant tree]

just learnt about microsoft power toys

[boreal scarab]

CAKE!

Pineapple

[wild rose]

Stop it! You're making me hungry and I just returned from the dentist for a cleaning and can't eat yet.

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/eating-food-gif-20897276

[wild rose]

Thinking of what I should cook for lunch?

[loud marlin]

water

[wintry sluice]

Beans Baked Upon the Toast

[glossy portal]

Soup

[boreal scarab]

Pasta

[thorny walrus]

Food

[wild rose]

All good suggestions... I guess.

[glossy portal]

Why didn't I think of that, damn it

[silver saffron]

rate my approach (0-5); is it too bothersome? How could you make it better? reference: dockerodeo Task 8/9

[leaden cedar]

Hey i have a problem I'm trying to reinstall linux butthere is a kernel panic. So i try to live boot with a usb key and remove them with sudo apt-get remove linux-image .... . At this moment i can see there is no more kernel so i'm restarting my computer booting again on my installer key doing the install but the error is still here and the kernels are still there too. Plz ping me 😉

[mossy river]

Yes

Well, in some cases.

There are times that it would be unethical but they have permission from law enforcement. Which is why I do not agree with the white/grey/black/red/other hat system.

[sand trench]

reject modern hat systems
reinstate cracker vs hacker mentality

[mossy river]

Like who?

[wintry sluice]

what would you replace it with (if at all)?

[mossy river]

Preferably I wouldn't have a system because of there being too many scenarios/ types of hackers.

You are either hacking legally or you are not.
Regardless of your ethics or morals.

[sand trench]

you are either a hacker( which does things legally and mostly ethically )
or you are a cracker( which does unethical and illegal hacking )

[mossy river]

Ethics are subject to a lot of biases, which is why I didn't include it in my message.

[sand trench]

fair

[wintry sluice]

personally, I wouldn't mind some kind of DnD-style alignment system

[mossy river]

I don't know what this message means.

[sand trench]

you can remove the ethics part from shadows message and replace it with:
hacker ( hacks legally )
cracker ( cracks/hacks things but only illegally )

[mossy river]

Everyone can fall into either category.

Regardless of your skill level, you are either breaking laws or not.

In the hat system, they are still grouped the same way.

If you're hacking illegally, you're a blackhat right?

This is exactly why I hate the hat system.

Yes but if you're less experienced an you're hacking systems you aren't authorised to, does that make you a green hat or a black hat?

You were referring to 4Chan users, so am I.

[wintry sluice]

huh, didn't know about colour hats. was only aware of black/gray/white.

[sand trench]

for the longest time the hat system only included white grey and black hat for shadow

[mossy river]

It's dumb.

[wintry sluice]

they sound like "yes, I'm doing something naughty, but its for a good reason"

[shut hawk]

It's very easy with the legal side: you are either breaking the law or not

With ethics its a lot more complicated, that isn't just as simple as saying unethical vs ethical because it depends a lot on who you are asking

[sand trench]

nah it is not that black and white with the legal side either

[mossy river]

I mean it is

[shut hawk]

How?

[wintry sluice]

it is. whether the laws are just is another matter

[sand trench]

considering a russian hacker can hack american things which is illegal in the usa but not in russia so who:s jursidiction are you going by

[mossy river]

Both.

[mossy river]

If you break a law in another country, you can be subject to their laws and extradited.

You cannot categorise a whole platform.

[sick lance]

That's why this server and THM are UK law

?

[wintry sluice]

needs an extradition treaty/agreement though

unless we are talking dead of night black ops stuff 🥷

[sick lance]

I hate the whole W11 set up with an E-mail.

[mossy river]

That is for moderation purposes.

[sand trench]

what about the cases where there is conflicting laws based on which country you side with???

[wintry sluice]

I hate how W11 has been constantly failing on some update for two weeks 😭

[mossy river]

You don't get to side with a country.

If I am hacking my neighbours, I will be subject to my county's laws.
If I am hacking a person in another country, I will be subject to both laws.

Google mutual legal assistance treaties

[shut hawk]

You don't need to

[mossy river]

Yup, it's mandated now.

[shut hawk]

You can set it up with a local account

[mossy river]

Not anymore

[sand trench]

in a lot of countries removing a child from their parrents for any reason is illegal
in sweden removing the child from the parents if they have gross neglience or assults on the child is legal and required
which of these laws should you follow if the child is currently in sweden on vacation with their parrents?????

[shut hawk]

I installed it a couple weeks ago, and it worked fine for me

[sick lance]

Yeah, hidden behind "Join a domain"

[bleak dagger]

im not super tech savvy but if i buy a phone on fb marketplace, will the iemi number be linked with my account when fb makes the reciept? and will this compromise my anonymity ? does this apply to other products and serial numbers ?

[sick lance]

Imie is for the phone, not the user.

[bleak dagger]

yes i know

[mossy river]

On which screen? I clicked on everything and it forced me to use an email address

[shut hawk]

Don't connect to the internet

[bleak dagger]

will it be linked to my facebook account on the reciept

[shut hawk]

Then it asks for a local account instead of email

[sick lance]

When you need to sign in, I choose other ways

[shut hawk]

wait we are talking about the same thing right, lmao

[sick lance]

Yes

[wintry sluice]

can you make a default account for install, then make a new admin account (local) and delete the email-based one?

[sick lance]

I'll take a screenshot in a min.

[shut hawk]

Here

[mossy river]

Thought so, it doesn't make sense to force users to use an email address, especially when they will not be able to setup an account

[sand trench]

because the example shadow gave has caused trouble in the past

[mossy river]

Mhm, I didn't get this prompt, I installed last week, I assume it's because I was 'ethernetted'

[bleak dagger]

?

[sand trench]

where swedish authoritise have taking custody of a child on vacation with their parrents in sweden due to abuse in public

[shut hawk]

Yeah it doesn't show up if you are connected to the internet ☹️

[sick lance]

No?

Why would it be?

[sick lance]

I am though.

[bleak dagger]

because i thought legally it would have be

[shut hawk]

There are others ways of doing it, I'm sure

[sick lance]

How you can prove the person who picks up the phone on collection is the account owner?

[wintry sluice]

if you are in another country, you follow their laws. simple as.
don't like those laws, don't go there.

[shut hawk]

I thought that was the norm? Social services can take your child away for abuse/neglect?

[bleak dagger]

i dont think it would be needed

[sick lance]

Nah, if you buy off facebook that's it.

It's a private sale, so if you buy a broken/stolen phone, it's on you.

[bleak dagger]

how can i buy with cash on marketplace

[sick lance]

You ask the seller to meet up.

[sand trench]

depends on country laws... could give you a few examples of where it gets comlicated but eh

[bleak dagger]

thx

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sick lance (current: #2 - 2003)

[serene timber]

someone knows why I can not connect openCTI room. the IP address is not working on tryhackme VM machine

[bleak dagger]

if vm machine means virtual machine machine that reminds me of chai tea meaning tea tea

[wintry sluice]

did you start the room's machine (separate from the attackbox)?

[sick lance]

#site-support is a better channel, could get lost in here.

[serene timber]

thanks, I am new here that's why I just wrote here

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sick lance (current: #2 - 2004)

[serene timber]

😂😂 my bad

[bleak dagger]

lol idk whats right myself

[lost plinth]

hi

[sick lance]

W11 VM just to use this

[lost plinth]

hi mate, how long you have been there?

I´m new here dude

[keen coral]

can anyone help me

i have a billion viruses on my laptop

and its slowing down everything

[sick lance]

Get Malware-Bytes.

Run a scan, quarantine results.

[keen coral]

why is my built in anti virus working

not

ok

i have a ba in cyber lol

and my laptop got fuccked

this entitre time it had viruses

[sick lance]

Uh, cool.

[keen coral]

shutup scurbs

scrubs

[leaden cedar]

Hey i have a problem I'm trying to reinstall linux butthere is a kernel panic. So i try to live boot with a usb key and remove them with sudo apt-get remove linux-image .... . At this moment i can see there is no more kernel so i'm restarting my computer booting again on my installer key doing the install but the error is still here and the kernels are still there too. Plz ping me 😉

[wintry sluice]

its with a z. smh

[cosmic pendant]

Be nice

[keen coral]

i did but my antivirus is compromised somehow

[graceful thistle]

please behave

[cosmic pendant]

Not surprising

HI DONPINGS!

[wintry sluice]

what antivirus?

[graceful thistle]

hi toaster 😄 how are you?

[keen coral]

windows security

[cosmic pendant]

You need to reformat and reinstall if it's that busted eh?

[sick lance]

@mossy river

I can't even show you because this wasn't the page I got last time 😂