general

[gleaming grove]

yes

[finite basalt]

if it's a hash, eventually might get it but I do doubt it's a hash

[near sapphire]

doesnt look like a hash

[finite basalt]

tf

[shut hawk]

its base32, no?

[near sapphire]

yes but its still nonsense

NUVFejJ4dWppbGNrclFYbXFod25INGFhNU5MSVBvb0NuYUhVUmluNURQUEExelpnNkNPbklT

[gleaming grove]

32 then 64 i think

[finite basalt]

hashcat only sees the gpu dedicated vram but doesn't show the CPU RAM that is shared between cpu and gpu :l

[finite basalt]

base64 decode that and you end up with something else

[near sapphire]

5EEz2xujilckrQXmqhwnH4aa5NLIPooCnaHURin5DPPA1zZg6COnIS

[finite basalt]

that's the part people think might be a hash

I personally don't think it is because that'd be a short flag for a challenge unless there's something else to it

[loud marlin]

where did you find it

[finite basalt]

no clue, apparently someone posted it and fucked off lmao

[shut hawk]

yeah that's not right

the regex for it is too broad

[near sapphire]

lets ask the good ol chat gpt

[finite basalt]

yeah, I don't know what it is but I don't believe it'[s a hash

[fringe nacelle]

So a crypto? Lol

[pliant onyx]

It's possible

But that's not the usual format of them, is it

What is the original "thing" that was posted

[fringe nacelle]

Not sure

[gleaming grove]

Someone posted it. He said it was a riddle from a challenge he doesn’t remember.

[pliant onyx]

There's two things going on btw

One's the k300... thing and the other is this

[cloud quiver]

Guys since it's a riddle you probably can't dicpher it if you don't know the whole concept of the room 🙂

[near sapphire]

the orginal message he sent

[pliant onyx]

"The keys become one"

[fringe nacelle]

Have yah tried googling the riddle to see if it has a trail?

[pliant onyx]

I was just about to lol

[fringe nacelle]

^

[pliant onyx]

What about only the cipher part

[fringe nacelle]

Ok well paraphrase the riddle

[pliant onyx]

Nothing for that too

[loud marlin]

@polar spoke ppl need you help... again 🙂

[pliant onyx]

Cyberchef suggests base32 then 64

The output of this is an unidentified hash (if it's a hash) on various online platforms

[shut hawk]

got it :))

[fringe nacelle]

Nice job

[gleaming grove]

HOWWWW

[fringe nacelle]

Inb4 it was encoded multiple times

Yup

[shut hawk]

I guessed it was just a simple base encoding

[loud marlin]

lol

[near sapphire]

ah I got to 62 then didnt think of 92

[fringe nacelle]

I've never heard of 92 but I'm not too versed in crypto

[finite basalt]

ahhh nice, good job man

[grizzled void]

k now figure this one out lmao

[pliant onyx]

AAA I WASN'T THE FIRST

[gleaming grove]

amazing job

[shut hawk]

this is obviously some CTF and i don't really want to help further without confirmation

[pliant onyx]

Jayy got it

[pliant onyx]

Yeah we should delete the solutions

[pliant onyx]

These are just a few characters

Easier to figure out

[shut hawk]

[pliant onyx]

But haven't yet, so

[near sapphire]

well no trace online of pfswt

[pliant onyx]

bich

[shut hawk]

yeah, it might be a private one

[pliant onyx]

I WAS KIDDING

[gleaming grove]

Yup, I don't want to be scolded by scrubz

[finite basalt]

was gonna say I've not seen a public ctf

[pliant onyx]

Also, there should've been a google trail

When someone searched for it

If it was a public ctf, so it is something private

Maybe a college's internal CTF or something

[near sapphire]

plot twist he made it himself

[pliant onyx]

True, could be that as well

[near sapphire]

and just wanna test this dc

[tranquil crane]

there is no spoon

[fringe nacelle]

If there is no goose

[shell nova]

I mean I got it a while ago, but it's a terrible challenge

I mean it's all cyberchef goes brrr

[pliant onyx]

That's what we did yes

[shut hawk]

wdym base encoding 4x is terrible?!1!11!!

[shell nova]

yes

[fringe nacelle]

Btw what is the lead mentor role for thm? Obviously some form of mentoring lol

[shell nova]

Apparently I need to help people more

😉

[shut hawk]

smh

[shell nova]

and learn to type good

[tranquil crane]

Mentormore

[fringe nacelle]

Teach me how to efficiently decrypt cookies and md5

[shell nova]

😄

md5 is technically non-reversible

[fringe nacelle]

Yeah I know lol

[shell nova]

and cookies are probably not encrypted

[fringe nacelle]

Had to do something recently with it where I had to add a missing digit to one. So that was fun

[loud marlin]

https://tenor.com/view/cookie-monster-waiting-sneak-out-peek-cute-gif-9649418687917462631

[shut hawk]

in the last ctf I did, you had to run padbuster against the cookies 🗿

[shell nova]

now if they're done properly, they'll be a fully random session id, with the session info never leaving the server, or a properly signed JWT with a strong secret

[fringe nacelle]

Keep feeding me info boss, this is all going to the notepad

[shell nova]

if you're encrypting session info in a cookie and throwing it client-side, you're doing it wrong.

[upper minnow]

We should go back to encrypting with ceasar

[gleaming grove]

i have to modify a jwt in a room

header.payload.signature thing

[shell nova]

I mean I made one where you forge a token

for that you need either the RSA private key, or the symmetric secret used to generate the HMAC

[gleaming grove]

whats the room's name?

[shell nova]

CERTain Doom

[fringe nacelle]

If I learn more about the stuff mentioned above, I'll give it a look.

[shell nova]

I still think it's a Medium, though apparently enough people disagreed

[gleaming grove]

nice room, looks good

im gonna do it

[shell nova]

glhfdd

I did decrypt the writeup... I think

[pliant onyx]

Can these be temperatures?

[near sapphire]

??

[pliant onyx]

Uh the k ones

I was thinking to myself, sorry

[gleaming grove]

like kelvin?

[shell nova]

nah, might be hex with a wonky separator

or some really messed up encoding with no real-world use 😉

[gleaming grove]

where did you find the "k" code?

[pliant onyx]

Unit Frequency
k300 5
k780 4
k330 4
k370 1
k380 1

This what I found out (ignoring the last k)

[pliant onyx]

Someone dropped it randomly

[gleaming grove]

oh yeah

[loud marlin]

dear lord

and how do you connect to wifi at first place?

and is tehre buy 2 pay 1

and if some send deuth to it. do you lose water ?

[shut hawk]

so many questions

so little time

[shell nova]

that threw me off for a half second ngl

[loud marlin]

at last you do not need LAN cable

[rapid merlin]

What’s everyone up to

[gleaming grove]

secret riddles and wifi showers

[loud marlin]

some might lose eye if not carefull

[near sapphire]

Hol up that reminds me of something

[eternal timber]

Good morning

[near sapphire]

https://youtu.be/wkQfbXAzejE?si=d7VLkRzNTTo6nCZb

There we go found it

[shut hawk]

lmao

[crystal laurel]

does anyone hack accounts?

[mossy river]

Hey this is illegal and against our community rules.

[devout palm]

Hello, i am back

https://tenor.com/view/komaru-cat-komaru-dance-vibe-soggy-gif-8606070379211151724

[near sapphire]

why no floating kitty

[shut hawk]

what drop-in replacements does everyone use for the default gnu utils on linux? i.e cat -> batcat, find -> ripgrep, ls -> eza

[devout palm]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-berg-cat-orange-cat-swimming-gif-25177582

[devout palm]

I use default ones, simple.

[near sapphire]

dont change what works

[shut hawk]

but but no syntax highlighting

[plain egret]

Pls guys I need help
Yesterday I was working with a desktop computer at work and the monitor suddenly went to, wasn't recieving visual signal, switched monitors and still the same thing, mind you the one I used to switch It was perfectly ok on the other desktop.
Now I've switched to the other desktop and non of the monitors are receiving signals
Everything is properly connected by the way

[sick lance]

Ask your IT department?

[near sapphire]

well pretty nice ig but why do you need to replace ls?

[celest swan]

Most likely an update (or optional update) will fix the problem. Otherwise you might have a faulty port on your desktop. Just reread your post, if multiple devices and monitors combinations are having this issue, it will most likely be an update for the display. A had malfunctioning monitors as well after an update was pushed and the optional ones were not.

[worn thorn]

I only used batcat. It's pretty nice to have some color in an otherwise dark terminal.

[near sapphire]

import this, it sounds like ur ordering python

[shut hawk]

more customisability

[near sapphire]

that actually looks good, jayy might convert me

[shut hawk]

heh

plus tree/recursive options are nice

[devout palm]

I am okay with black & white, i use vim if i want syntax highlighting

[rapid merlin]

Very nice

I’m chilling with my friend, we talking about plants

[mossy river]

All my thoughts are balatro

Chat how cooked is my screentime

[opaque flax]

How many hours?

[worn thorn]

keep on breaking the game
I have two possible infinite runs which have a pretty good chance to crash.

[rugged kayak]

what font is this

[neat belfry]

hey guys

[shut hawk]

nerd font

[rapid merlin]

Hey guys

[mossy river]

I bought it around 10:30am this morning (it’s 13:34pm now)

[neat belfry]

whats the try hack me website url?

[shut hawk]

i love that game

[rugged kayak]

which one

[mossy river]

I made myself wait until all my assignments were submitted before I got it, thank God I did 😂

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @shut hawk (current: #14 - 603)

[mossy river]

Jayy is God 😔

[opaque flax]

I’ve watched a streamer play balatro. It’s really hard to understand what’s going on I guess I need to really sit down and play it or really pay attention

[neat belfry]

yo jabba whats the try hack me website url

[mossy river]

https://tryhackme.com/

[shut hawk]

oh fira code i think?

[shut hawk]

if you've ever played poker you'll be fine

[mossy river]

Watch Markiplier’s video, although I still think actively playing the game is the best way to understand how to get the best scores, he does a good job of explaining. He is also super attentive so his runs give me a second hand dopamine rush

[opaque flax]

lol games that good I guess

[mossy river]

It’s the sounds, I can still hear all my jokers being activated

https://tenor.com/view/subaru-natsuke-natsuki-subaru-gif-19434521

[pliant onyx]

Did someone call

[shut hawk]

two hand goes OP

i had it like level 20? ish

[rapid merlin]

What’s the safest way to use deepseek

[mellow gull]

Roffle Lite is a very good Balatro player and he does a pretty good job of explaining what's going on in both modded and vanilla runs.

[sick lance]

Define safest?

[azure hill]

Same as any other LLM... Don't share sensitive information

[rapid merlin]

How did you do it ?

[sick lance]

..I looked at their ToS and decided not to. 🙂

[rapid merlin]

Ah okay

I don’t ever read terms of service

I would love to try it though if people are saying it’s that good

[mellow gull]

It's pretty rough (the ToS)

[eternal timber]

Red already

[mellow gull]

That's right, I'm red now

[near sapphire]

orr run it locally

[rapid merlin]

Damn

[sick lance]

The ToS still applies to running locally, especially if it phones home.

[rapid merlin]

Red

[plain egret]

I am the IT department bruh

[eternal timber]

I’ll try to level up

[mellow gull]

You got this

[rapid merlin]

Can someone send me the new ranking system please so I can save it

[plain egret]

It can't access any of the resources of the OS to update anything

[near sapphire]

just realized i'm about 2k away from becoming a potato

[shut hawk]

I think the ToS is just for using the service, if you want to self-host the model then I'd assume you would have to follow the MIT license it's under?

[rapid merlin]

Nice, we will be two spuds in a pot

😂

[mellow gull]

@blissful snow Hello, unsolicited DMs/Friend Requests are against the rules of the server. If you need to ask me something, you can do it here. What's up?

[sick lance]

Still something I'm not comfortable with.

Including stuff that phone home.

[shut hawk]

Right and that's fair enough, just the "you have to follow ToS, even self-hosting it" part is incorrect

I think? I may be wrong there

[blissful snow]

ok ok

Could someone help me with data exfiltration with ping

[sick lance]

Which point did I say that?

[shut hawk]

Uhh here

[sick lance]

Oh yeah.

But even you don't seem think you're right, so that's okay

[mellow gull]

My general assumption is that regardless of whether or not the ToS applies, the data it says it scrapes from your devices it probably still takes and sends back if it has an internet connection.

[shut hawk]

Well, are you?

[sick lance]

I mean, to counter a point to say it's wrong, then say yourself you don't think your point is right either.

They're basically the same.

[shut hawk]

Okay, I think you're wrong

[sick lance]

That's ok.

I could very well be.

Doesn't change my stance on using it though.

[shut hawk]

So...do you have a source?

Can't really be spreading miss information, can we?

[sick lance]

Where's yours? 🤔

[shut hawk]

https://chat.deepseek.com/downloads/DeepSeek Terms of Use.html

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1/blob/main/LICENSE

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2/blob/main/LICENSE

The services they provide have a seperate ToS, to the self-hosted models in which you need to follow the linked license

[sick lance]

Then that's it settled. 😄

[mossy river]

Spotify has a sleep timer so now I can turn off my ASMR keyboard typing sounds automatically

[shut hawk]

o

Thats quite useful

Is it on all platforms?

[mossy river]

I’m not sure, I opened the queue to put the better music at the top and I saw a sleep timer

[queen flare]

any suggestions on what code editor i should use?

[deep pilot]

can any one recommend me a linux course ( everything about linux )

[silver sky]

Have you even looked at tryhackme?

There's several Linux Fundimentals rooms

[neat belfry]

bro WHY IS MY INTERNET SLOWWWWWW

[deep pilot]

i want videos

not articles

and stuff like that

[shut hawk]

Overthewire is good for practicing
https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php is good for learning

Oh videos?

[sinful moon]

lol is this real life? We've come full circle: https://github.com/NilsIrl/dockerc

[near sapphire]

microsoft is learning linux, about time maybe you could learn how to make a good terminal

anyway linux videos..

[deep pilot]

😭 😐

[sinful moon]

to be fair Microsoft actually has a decent terminal these days

[near sapphire]

linux terminal still superior

[shut hawk]

Writen in Zig too, absolutely based

[sinful moon]

I mean as a Linux enjoyer myself, I can't complain but it's at least on par with many Linux terms

[deep pilot]

uhhh

[shut hawk]

Yeah, windows terminal is genuinely really good

[queen flare]

linux for hackers by occupytheweb is a pretty good book to learn linux

[deep pilot]

😭

[queen flare]

and the bandit challanges in overthewire is pretty good for practicing basics of linux

[sinful moon]

Making their new term default in Windows 11 is genuinely one of the only measurable improvements 11 brings to users lol

[cloud quiver]

I use VSCode as main . Sublime/Notepad++ - for scripts on Linux 🙂

[near sapphire]

powershell still sucks though

[shut hawk]

For programming projects, a mix of Zed and the JetBrains family. For quick stuff, sublime

[shut hawk]

Can't argue with that

[arctic cradle]

does anyone know? ^

[sinful moon]

Yeah honestly, it's like that bell graph meme, VScode, then forcing vim/emacs/etc into being IDEs, VScode again

[queen flare]

i have no issues with vscode but idk why i don't like it

[near sapphire]

why dont i see a lot of ppl using vscode in linux

[sinful moon]

because they're on the middle of that bell graph meme I'm refering to lol

I have myself tried to force (n)vim into being an IDE and it's not fun

[queen flare]

i use jetbrains ides as much as i can
pycharm for python, intellij for java
but i'm mainly looking for a code editor/ide for c programming
clion from jetbrains is great i'm sure, but it doesn't have a community edition and i'm not really keen on paying for code editors/ides

[sinful moon]

vim really is best at just quick scripting and editing imho, it's perfection for it

[jolly iron]

Hello 🙂

[sinful moon]

but keeping track of multiple files in an entire coding project, yes you can do it, but is it easy or sensable? Probably not

[shut hawk]

Nani superior!

Nano*

[sinful moon]

lol

[near sapphire]

does jetbrain have like an all in one package its going to be really annoying for me if i need to install a new ide for each language

[queen flare]

i am lowkey trying to learn vim/nvim
but i did hear it has a very steep learning curve and till you give it a few months your productivity will be shit

[sinful moon]

iirc there's a more modern version of nano called micro which is like the neovim to vim

[near sapphire]

:wq is the only important command to know

[shut hawk]

I'd probably say Intell is the most "jack of all trades"

There's also a WIP called fleet

https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/

[sinful moon]

Honestly it's pretty darn easy to learn just enough to just get yourself going. Ironically what he said above :wq and learnign i to insert and understanding the two main modes (command and insert) are kind of the essentials

[shut hawk]

I need to take a look into micro

[sinful moon]

Yeah I haven't tried it but have heard that syntax highlighting is on by default and other nice QoL stuff

I've never personally been a fan of nano just due to the wack keyboard shortcuts lol

vim may be esoteric but the keys you press in command mode at least 95% of the time make sense for what you're actually trying to do

[queen flare]

i use nano for very basic stuff like editing .conf files quickly

[sinful moon]

that's what vim is for but to each their own lol

whatever gets the job done

[queen flare]

i'm actually thinking of learning vim to use it as a substitute for ide

[sinful moon]

Well see my posts above regarding that

you can do that, but it requires a good bit of plugins and customization

[queen flare]

more specifically for writing c/c++
because i use jetbrains ides for other stuff

[sinful moon]

But also depends on the size of your coding project. If it's all one file, yeah vim is fine

If it's a large project, yeah just use VSCode instead of banging your head against turning vim into an IDE

[shut hawk]

Oh for sure, where's my Ctrl+C/V for copy paste

[sinful moon]

also to be clear when I say vim, you should be starting with neovim instead of classic vim

[queen flare]

why's that

[granite sage]

so hello everyone

[shut hawk]

Wait I may be getting mixed up, not c/p but ctrl+a for all and delete

[sinful moon]

Neovim is where the modern development is happening, and it's what the cool kids are using 😎

lol

[queen flare]

some people have recommended me to use the vim plugin in vscode, to practice vim and i can turn it off when it becomes too much of a headache

[grim sparrow]

Done!

[granite sage]

i just wanna learn about cybersecurity and hacking but dont really know what i can do with it and thats kind of hindering the will to start

[opaque flax]

You can make a legal career out of it

[sinful moon]

I mean you can get careers in computer security more generally

[opaque flax]

Or do CTFs

[shut hawk]

Hmmm I've heard a site called TryHackMe that may be of interest

[sinful moon]

professionally I'm in infosec and sysadmin

[shut hawk]

Yeah ^, cyber isn't all just red teaming, there's so many different career options

[queen flare]

when you say what i can do it with, in terms of what are you thinking
legally, you can make a career in a bunch of fields like soc, pentesting etc.

[granite sage]

like i dont wanna go for a career related to cysec but just wanna learn hacking for fun

[sinful moon]

There's both offensive and defensive computer security positions you can persue

[near sapphire]

oh wow I've never heard of that thanks for the resource jay! *free rep

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @shut hawk (current: #14 - 604)

[devout palm]

https://tenor.com/view/kitty-cat-cat-float-kitty-float-cat-water-float-gif-17908418945946410709

[sinful moon]

Then you can learn for fun too, it just sounded like you were questioning the point

[queen flare]

which weirdly has a similar name as to this discord server

[silver sky]

I do it for shits and giggles

[opaque flax]

Got a link? 👀

[near sapphire]

why have I been getting htb ads everywhere lol

[granite sage]

ye like this

[opaque flax]

Ad tracking woo

[queen flare]

ad tracking is crazy these days
i search for a specific type of app on play store and start getting recommendations of similar apps on my insta somehow

[opaque flax]

It’s all connected

[wooden totem]

the keyboard is listening to you

[queen flare]

and my microphone is recording my keystrokes i presume

?

[sinful moon]

you all get ads? laughs in adblockers

[granite sage]

in case i wanna learn linux

do i use wsl or dualboot?

[near sapphire]

vm

[sinful moon]

There's Linux rooms on THM, but you can do either or both... and that

but do know WSL won't be very effective if you try to use it for TryHackMe due to networking limitations compared to a proper VM

[opaque flax]

Pihole stops most of mine

[wooden totem]

it's all 1s and 0s

[sinful moon]

Most? That's why you have actual extensions to stop the rest

[opaque flax]

Yes I know

[near sapphire]

i'm surprised google doesnt make google+ where theres no ads

[sinful moon]

lol Google+ was a thing, it was a social network

[silver sky]

It was an awful social network

[neat belfry]

u do realize that websites can detect them and ask u to disable it

[sinful moon]

but also lol, you're undermining Google's whole profit generation stream with that

[sinful moon]

Yes and there's ways around that, is all I will say

[silver sky]

https://youtu.be/LTq8TrA3hb4?si=WKUlmenWpymHhK5R

[near sapphire]

well they get a new stream though

[sinful moon]

Google is not really a search company anymore, they are an advertising company in terms of income

[neat belfry]

yea ik

[sinful moon]

and they do everything in their power to keep the ad revenue flowing

[grizzled void]

I'm lazy and just use nano and mousepad when scripting on my kali machine. Notepad++ and VSCode on my windows machine

[sinful moon]

totally fair

mostly vim or VSCode for me

[neat belfry]

but like alotta websites rely on ads yk

[shut hawk]

Quality of Google searches in the past couple years 📉

[sinful moon]

Yeah for real

[neat belfry]

like if theres an ad, out of respect, i watch it

[sick lance]

Nintendo music app has this I think, good to see Spotify got it.

[neat belfry]

in a yt video

[sinful moon]

they've figured out once and for all the Google SEO techniques and it's awful

[neat belfry]

or sumwhere else

[shut hawk]

I'd highly recommend Kagi, if you are willing to pay

[chilly veldt]

KAGI

[near sapphire]

oh hi bella

[sinful moon]

What is that? Is that like SponsorBlock or something?

[chilly veldt]

it's a search engine

[sinful moon]

SponsorBlock is a step too far for me

[chilly veldt]

really good

[sinful moon]

ah okay nevermind then

[shut hawk]

It's an impressive search engine

https://kagi.com/

[sinful moon]

I have been experimenting with alt search engines but for some reason Kagi has never came up in my research

[near sapphire]

I def pronounced that wrong

ke-gi

[boreal scarab]

I pronounced it like the "Pegi 18" voice lol

[sinful moon]

lol

[sinful moon]

Anyways for Kagi I'll have to do some more research, thank you for the recommendation though

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @shut hawk (current: #14 - 605)

[shut hawk]

yw

[sinful moon]

I have pretty much de-googled my life outside of Google Earth and Google Maps (notably with all tracking disabled obvs)

Vast majority of my accounts have been migrated from Gmail to Proton Mail... although I still have more work to do on that front lol.

part of a larger project to clean up my decades of interent presense and update passwords and etc

[devout palm]

I want to do it as well but too much effort

[sinful moon]

Password manager and actual email client like Thunderbird helps tons

Bitwarden being my password manager

[rugged kayak]

amount of ai generated crap when searching for stuff is unreal nowadays

[sinful moon]

These days I usually keep my Proton Mail inbox clean but you caught me on my off foot lol

Just my Thunderbird view

Pretty rainbow folders c:

Honestly I didn't learn the value of having a desktop email client until I started working in IT professionally. Obviously Outlook there, but Thunderbird is what I love personally

[near sapphire]

gosh this thing is sooo frustrating...

[sinful moon]

just MFA harder bro

[upper minnow]

i am at a point that i have 0 tolerance for ads

[sinful moon]

Agreed, sometimes I forget the internet even has ads these days lol

[upper minnow]

and i make a point of adding adblockers to all my friends computers

[sinful moon]

I tried to make a big push to roll out adblockers at work too but it was sadly in vain.

Mostly because too many dumb users were falling for awful search result ad placements and more, leading to malware and scams

If you all do infosec professionally though, I would recommend rolling out adblockers if you can convince management

Google being shit as usual makes that tricker though with Manifest v3 unfortunately

[mellow gull]

Any means of preventing and curtailing data harvesting is a worthy cause.

[upper minnow]

but sadly it stopped working with the last update

[sinful moon]

Probably best not to mention that specific use case here

but I get you

[sick lance]

Piracy is illegal.

Don't promote it in this server.

[upper minnow]

okk

so nowadays if i want to listen to music on my phone i just open youtube on firefox with adblock

[raw wren]

can anyone help me out in a code thing

[sick lance]

Adblockers are also against many platforms ToS.

[sick lance]

Where is the code from?

[sinful moon]

Yeah I do actually pay for YouTube Premium and Spotify Premium despite all my adblocking. Honestly sometimes it's just the best way to go about things on all devices

[raw wren]

i am creating it using chatgpt

[sinful moon]

That being said, we pay for no streaming services beyond that c:

all blu-rays baby!

[sick lance]

Then that's where you're going wrong.

[mellow gull]

I do pay for Youtube Premium, but I don't use Spotify on nearly a regular enough basis. Never really seen the point of the platform; I could just be missing out.

[sick lance]

What's the code for?

[upper minnow]

yea if you code with gpt youre gonna spend more time debugging than anything else

[raw wren]

i want to create a program that download yt subtitle and summaries it using ai agent i was thinking of using chatgpt api but it ain't free so i am using deepseek but i don't know how to do that

[upper minnow]

isnt there a tool for that already

[sinful moon]

Coding with ChatGPT is like coding with a co-worker who copy-pastes everything they do from StackOverflow

[steel sequoia]

@sick lance review Active Reconnaissance room task 6 question 1

[raw wren]

do people still use stack ?

[upper minnow]

pretty sure i remember a friend using smth like that to summarize recordings of college classes

[sick lance]

#site-bugs if you think it's a bug, #room-help for room help.

[upper minnow]

https://notegpt.io/youtube-video-summarizer

[mellow gull]

Youtube Shorts does such a good job of giving me random AI summaries of movies I've never watched all by itself though

[sinful moon]

Yeah there's a ton of tools like that and they're awful because that feeds into the plagerism market

[steel sequoia]

Thank You

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sick lance (current: #1 - 3330)

[upper minnow]

actually i think he used one AI to turn the audio to text and another to summarize the text

[sinful moon]

f4mi has a fantastic video on combating that

[raw wren]

yeah it can't do playlist whole

[sinful moon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEDFUjqA1s8

Highly recommended watching and related

[mellow gull]

The AI must be combated at every turn

[upper minnow]

for some reason my instagram feed is infested with weird ass AI videos so i dont even feel like using it

[raw wren]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73rkqkTY6dA

[mellow gull]

Oopsie Woopsie, you posted a youtube link as an unverified user, no embedded links for you

[sinful moon]

I'll pass, but thank you for the thought

[upper minnow]

what a weird accent

[sinful moon]

f4mi is a very fantastic channel though and worth a sub, she has great well researched content

yeah she's eastern european as far as I can determine

her video on tracking down the origins of "SMASNUG" is also 10/10

[upper minnow]

oh god i love this

[mellow gull]

I actually really like this accent.

Very wonderful.

[sinful moon]

Yeah her vibe, editing and videos are just great. Always a must watch for me when there's a new one

[upper minnow]

yea i like it too

one more transfem youtuber for the list

[sinful moon]

She is actually cis

[upper minnow]

no way

my radar never fails

[sinful moon]

It's okay I myself suspected as such until she confirmed multiple times on her twitter to people attemping to call her out lol

[sick lance]

Nothing wrong with that.

[dark mason]

Wassup

[opaque flax]

No embed

[mellow gull]

Didn't imply there was

[opaque flax]

https://tenor.com/view/embed-no-no-embed-megamind-megamind-meme-gif-25261934

Sometimes you gotta hit em the mega mind

[mellow gull]

https://tenor.com/view/kira-death-note-light-light-yagami-light-yagami-laugh-gif-16005396670537375082

[sick lance]

Or not 😅

A new user won't know they won't have embeds. 😄

[upper minnow]

apparently they launched a straight to streaming megamind 2

[sinful moon]

I leave for two seconds and we start going down the shitposting rabbithole lol

[upper minnow]

with dubious quality

[opaque flax]

They knew it would be too good for theaters

[mellow gull]

It's the weekend (for some of us)

We have fun

[sinful moon]

lol yeah it's Friday and shh I am very much "at work" right now

[opaque flax]

Same!

[sinful moon]

been a very long and busy week so I am enjoying actually having enough time to Discord post

[opaque flax]

I’m taking it from you

[upper minnow]

its public knowledge that no one works on fridays

[opaque flax]

I’ll pirate that shitposting game

[sinful moon]

To be fair even in IT, it's well known you never make significant changes on a Friday

or else yeah your weekend is ruined lol

[opaque flax]

Run your untested script a 4:59pm and shut your computer off and go home

[sinful moon]

actually spoken quite frequently but yes

[upper minnow]

good thing demand lately has not been high

[sinful moon]

Demand for what specifically?

[upper minnow]

in my job

[mellow gull]

No forewarning, major server patch at 9PM on a Friday Night --force --no-backup

[sinful moon]

Ah totally fair, I can tell you we've been quite busy here lol

[upper minnow]

but once the college semester starts and i have to write a thesis along with work its gonna be hell

what will it be about? absolutely no idea

[sinful moon]

We did actually apply Windows updates and server reboots for our largest client every Friday night until that was passed on to their internal IT. I don't miss that. Was always on the on-call tech to do after-hours

I did run into a couple show stoppers like "whoops email broke for 300+" users, lets stay up until 3am to fix it, but yeah nothing was ever like catastrophic

Also who would have guessed, it was Microsoft who broke that themselves, as always (Exchange authentication changes a couple years back)

[upper minnow]

god i hate microsoft stuff

[sick lance]

Microsoft don't like competition, they will do everything alone.

Build stuff, fix stuff, break stuff.

[upper minnow]

i work at dell so everything is microsoft related

[sick lance]

They're not fussy.

[sinful moon]

They also hate Q/A and testing lol

[upper minnow]

fucking power tools everywhere

[opaque flax]

Man you’re good. Our NOC applied patches and reboots to a hyper-v host and didn’t check to make sure it worked

And then I had to go fix it 🙂

[sinful moon]

Oh literally at Dell? Interesting. Well our fleet is 95% all Dell so there you are

I also have a Dell PowerEdge T430 as my homelab server c:

[upper minnow]

hoping to be able to escape it soon

their work culture is sickening

[sinful moon]

Yeah I can't even imagine working at a major OEM like that, but yeah whatever's best for you, go for it!

[upper minnow]

oh just noticed we have almost the same name

[sinful moon]

Yeah, I go by Ellie generally. Pretty close

[upper minnow]

yea and with them removing remote work completely its getting worse and worse

[sinful moon]

Ouch yeah, I work 800 miles way from my empoyers lol

[upper minnow]

we used to have Udemy so i could take some good classes in it but now they removed it to have their own learning platform with barely any content at all

[sinful moon]

Yeah probably just rebranding yet another product anyways

Meanwhile my company is on the order of less than 20 employees, so THM/HTM/etc was all my decision lol

[upper minnow]

and they make you use stupid tools so you dont learn anything useful

ive been working in automation, but instead of learning powershell, they had me learn POWER AUTOMATE

[opaque flax]

We have no learning content platform 🙂

[sick lance]

Udemy, ouch.

[sinful moon]

lol before you leave, please kill Dell Optimizer and Dell SupportAssist 🙃

[opaque flax]

We were also promised certs and that was 7 months ago

We actually were told we have pluralsight

[cunning viper]

Bro help mee

[opaque flax]

But then when they changed their licensing model they said nah we don’t need to do any learning platform

[sick lance]

With what?

[cunning viper]

When I tried do nmap scan on my network

It said " All 1000 ports on my ip are in ignored state"

[sick lance]

oreilly is a great platform.

[sick lance]

What are you scanning?

[sinful moon]

Give us the nmap command you used

[cunning viper]

What should I do

[opaque flax]

Your network is secure

[cunning viper]

nmap -Pn myip

[cunning viper]

Ohh I see

[sick lance]

Wi-Fi hacking is restricted to our advanced channels, if that's what you're doing

[sinful moon]

did you use your interal IP range or your external IP

[opaque flax]

Did you scan your external ip?

Looooooooool

[cunning viper]

😂

[sinful moon]

Also TryHackMe does have great rooms on learning nmap I will say

[cunning viper]

Wait lemme try again

[sick lance]

What are you planning on doing?

[sinful moon]

lol, that doesn't answer the question but yes if it was external that may have been why

[cunning viper]

I'm tryna get into my home network

[sick lance]

Use the password?

[sinful moon]

Um... what do you mean by that

[cunning viper]

I'm trying to get into my home network

[sinful moon]

You better be the actual administrator of your home network if you are doing this

[sick lance]

Probably best I take over 🙂

[cunning viper]

For fun though

[cunning viper]

Yeh my father is

Ik that

[sick lance]

Wi-Fi hacking, and hacking in to your home networks, is reserved for our advanced channels, we won't be assisting you on this. 🙂

[cunning viper]

Getting into my webserver

[cunning viper]

Oh ok

[sharp citrus]

Discord: What are the advanced channels?

Article Link

https://help.tryhackme.com/en/articles/8671900-discord-what-are-the-advanced-channels

Jan 31, 2025, 3:40 PM

[near sapphire]

is hacking into my own home network not illegal?

[cunning viper]

No it's not

[sick lance]

if it's your equipment, then it's fine.

But I'm going to assume a few things here

1. It's their parents that is paying for the network
2. It's their parents devices they're using.
3. The router is part of their ISP package, in which case is rented, and not belonging to them

[cunning viper]

I have the permission dude

[sinful moon]

Testing on your own equipment that you own and operate is totally fine, but yes, ISP owned equipment and equipment administrated by other individuals besides yourself is not

[sick lance]

You need permission in the form of a written, signed and data contract.

[cunning viper]

Oh I see

[sinful moon]

We just don't even want to touch anything murky. But ISP stuff especially never

[cunning viper]

Ha

[sick lance]

This is done to protect you, and the company.

[sinful moon]

I miss the days when even our cable modem was solely our property, but we had to give that "right" up to the ISP in the name of "free speed upgrades" in the 00s

[sick lance]

Thanks @fervent meteor and @sinful moon for stepping back

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @fervent meteor (current: #59 - 148)

[sick lance]

This is why I always purchase my own equipment.

[sinful moon]

Same, and even when an ISP tries to give you a router/modem combo, turn off all the router stuff and use your own

[mellow gull]

Never use ISP provided router/modems if I don't have to

They ain't even that good most of the time

[opaque flax]

I double NAT D:

[sick lance]

I'm having works done soon in my area to increase our speeds.

[devout palm]

https://tenor.com/view/kitty-soggen-soggy-sopping-wet-kity-gif-3736576636392932586

[sick lance]

When it's completed, it's going to be insanse.

[sinful moon]

Yeah they're usually those pretty crappy Arris devices or whatever that company is called. Very much not a fan of them

compared to back in the day when I'd be running custom firmware on all my routers and yeah owned my own cable modem as mentioned. Those were the golden days

dat dd-wrt/OpenWRT life

[near sapphire]

Using wireshark on public network isnt illegal right? Cause i may or may not have done that without knowing

[cunning viper]

Yeh I solved that

[sick lance]

This is a grey area.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

[shut hawk]

No, it's not illegal

[opaque flax]

The packets are being sent to you so

[shut hawk]

At least here, but I'd double check your local laws

[sand trench]

what about tshark and termshark???

[sinful moon]

Wireshark is my wifu

I mean they go hand in hand

[mellow gull]

Wireshark is a really good listener <3

[sick lance]

It really all depends on what you do with the traffic you capture, on what makes it legal/ethical or not.

[near sapphire]

Yeah i didnt know anything back then was just playing around with wireshark for the first time

[opaque flax]

Sometimes I can’t understand what wireshark is telling me 😦

[sinful moon]

Realistically only use Wireshark on networks you have full administrative control over if you are concerned

[mellow narwhal]

I still don't know how to use Wireshark to capture the whole LAN traffic

[sick lance]

A skill issue you fixed after. right?

..Right?

[mellow narwhal]

All it does is capture localhost for me

[opaque flax]

https://tenor.com/view/hacker-pc-meme-matrix-codes-gif-11310648121341593764

[sick lance]

Oh come on!

[lean cargo]

That's all it will do, capture traffic going to and from your network interface.

[sinful moon]

On Linux you may have to explicitly enable promiscious mode on your networking interfaces to do so

[sick lance]

You may need a dedicated NiC that features monitor mode.

[mellow narwhal]

If I want it to capture all the traffic to all the devices on the network?

[mellow narwhal]

I thought there'd be some Wireshark setting but apparently not

[balmy sigil]

Hey guys, so rn im doing the jr pentester course, but I kind of decided id rather be on the protective side of things, like actually keeping sites/other things safe rather than attacking, any suggestions on what to do?

[sinful moon]

that goes for both WiFi and Ethernet, and support for monitor/promiscious mode depends on the manufacturer

[mellow narwhal]

I did, it didn't help

[lean cargo]

You would need some special hardware, or a network switch that does "port mirroring" that sends a copy of all packets to that interface on the switch. Then your capture machine can be connected to that physical port and it will see all the traffic.

[upper minnow]

do the Soc course

[opaque flax]

Do the SOC courses

[sinful moon]

Then it's quite possible your hardware doesn't support it explicitly

[balmy sigil]

What would that be/do?

[mellow narwhal]

Makes sense

[sinful moon]

or you did it wrong

[balmy sigil]

what exactly would i be doing/

[mellow narwhal]

Also a possibility

All I did was check the box where it asked to enable promiscuous

[opaque flax]

Learning about how defenders operate really

[balmy sigil]

cool, so it would just be learning how to defend?

[cunning viper]

Ha

[lean cargo]

Are there any restrictions on live streaming the SOC simulator? I was thinking of doing that this Saturday.

[sick lance]

I have an Alfa Network

[balmy sigil]

shout out hak5

[shut hawk]

Good question, let me ask for you

[balmy sigil]

lmao

[sinful moon]

I just know for WiFi specifically, typically once I got everything I needed to get aircrack-ng going, I usually had enough to get Wireshark going in monitor mode

[mellow narwhal]

That's one nice mouse
And a nice sticker

[sinful moon]

Ethernet I generaly didn't have to fiddle with much

[sick lance]

The mouse is a £5 Amazon special.

[mellow narwhal]

I love that backlighting

[sick lance]

Because I hate trackpads.

[balmy sigil]

start with SOC fundamentals?

[sick lance]

Soc 1 and 2 is good path ways.

[mellow narwhal]

You have yet to experience the steel ball on the middle of the keyboard acting as a mouse

[balmy sigil]

so should i finish pentesting, then do SOC, or if I just want to do protection should I switch from pentesting to SOC?

[near sapphire]

I wanna see scrubz full setup

[devout palm]

What is the brand?

[sinful moon]

nubbins were peak, and we have regressed as a society not including them on laptops

[devout palm]

It looks awesome

[sick lance]

This?

[pallid lotus]

Jfc how old is your laptop

[sinful moon]

No that's a nubbin as I was refering to

[cunning viper]

Your nationality

[near sapphire]

Thinkpad still uses them iirc

[sick lance]

3 years.

[mellow narwhal]

Not that. It's more like a steel ball, rather bulky, you spin it around to move the cursor. It's found in older airports with cyber cafes.

[sinful moon]

or a TrackPoint as IBM used to call them

[pallid lotus]

Tf. I haven't seen those in at least a decade

[sinful moon]

yes, but Lenovo is a hollow shell of the former IBM ThinkPad glory

same for Motorola being aquired by them

[opaque flax]

Round about way of calling someone a boomer damn

[pallid lotus]

I mean, it's just as insulting to me...

[opaque flax]

🤣

[sick lance]

Scotland.

[pallid lotus]

https://tenor.com/view/elevator-scotland-burnistoun-gif-15604770

[mellow narwhal]

@sick lance

It's called a trackball, I think

[sinful moon]

lol

[sick lance]

Oh I had a few of them.

[pallid lotus]

I think

[sinful moon]

That is the most industral looking trackball I have ever seen

[mellow narwhal]

I'm noting this down

I love backlights

[sinful moon]

looks like a trackball for an industral CNC machine or something lol

[sick lance]

Throwback to when we had to hard boil an egg to use our mice.

[lean cargo]

My childhood lol

[sick lance]

Did you launch them from slingshots too?

[lean cargo]

hell no, those things were precious, I didn't have spares. I washed them in the sink even lol

[sinful moon]

Yeah I do not miss having to clean those and the bearings

even on my retro PCs, I refuses to use anything other than an optical mouse if possible lol

[sick lance]

It was the old horrible mouse mats you used to buy, the threads would get trapt inside.

[devout palm]

2090 quantum mouse

[sick lance]

Specially when playing the Amiga.

[sinful moon]

Yeah Amiga is the one I still have to put up with classic ball mouse

[blazing granite]

probably there is one of those somewhere in my mum's house 😂

[sinful moon]

I'm sure there are solutions, but I just have an original NTSC A500

[sick lance]

https://www.amigakit.com/optical-scroll-mouse-black-p-1329.html

[sinful moon]

Nice yeah I figured it was a thing, but I haven't investigated much. Sadly I don't have enough room in my house to get it out of storage

[lean cargo]

Trying to use optical mouse on your old hardware be like

[sinful moon]

I'm already out of space between 1999 Dell XPS T500, 2002 Dell Dimension 4400, and iMac G3 on a table

used to have a room dedicated for them but they got shoved into the home office due to my SO

[near sapphire]

Im too young for this conversation lol gn all!

[devout palm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI8Z9snG2U0
@sinful moon See the speed of him writing in vim

[sinful moon]

See ya!

[lean cargo]

Come back and learn some history, young blood!

[sinful moon]

I'll pass, but I'm more than familiar with people proficent in vim, myself included

I've been using vim for about 18 years

[whole yew]

vim golf was the original linux game

[lean cargo]

I can use vim, but far from proficient, it's amazing see people fly through it

[devout palm]

Okay... Thought you would be interested.

[whole yew]

one of my former interns learned vim because i made him write python for 6 weeks using only that tool

once he learned vim i "let" him use an IDE for the rest of his internship - he was actually pissed at the IDE because he'd gotten used to how fast and snappy vim is, even with plugins cluttering it up

[sinful moon]

Honestly for single document projects, vim just kills it, I just don't like the whole "forcing vim to be an IDE" vibe myself

[whole yew]

Eh, getting vim properly turned for a language isn't difficult, juts time consuming

[sinful moon]

Oh I don't mean that, I mean more multidocument large projects

[devout palm]

Vim is just more than a text editor.

[whole yew]

autocompletion for keywords and named entities is the big pain point

[sinful moon]

Just because you can doesn't mean you should

[lean cargo]

preach!

[sinful moon]

yeah I'm more than fine with a few plugins for a language or whatever

[cunning viper]

How old are you

[upper minnow]

i use vim on vscode

[lean cargo]

Honestly I'm a VSCode scrub and perfectly fine with that. Why have all this ram if I can't use it?

[whole yew]

it was more about the speed and responsiveness with vim than with the IDE. intern got used to the speed of navigation with search, line jumping and never having to move his hands to do anything

[sinful moon]

yeah vim is my go to for quick editing and single document coding for sure 10/10

I hate to use this awful meme but this does sum up my feelings

[whole yew]

eh

[sinful moon]

Electron does indeed suck though lol

[whole yew]

vscode is still too bloaty for me, to be honest. and ssh tunneling to a remote devbox is much easier than trying to get the ssh connection working properly in vscode or codium

[opaque flax]

I was trying to compile a binary with a .sln and it was such a painful experience

[lean cargo]

I just git push from Code then pull on my test box

[sinful moon]

fair enough, my pentesting server is all ssh/ssh tunneling, not that I do much dev there, so it's just all vim

[shut hawk]

or setup an sshfs mount

[sinful moon]

shh, big brain moment

[lean cargo]

I think efficiency is great for production, but simplicity is great for devloping, at least for me.

[shut hawk]

so far, liking the look of micro, thanks for the recommendations

[sinful moon]

it already blows my mind as it is THM OpenVPN on pentesting server > ssh tunneling that server > RDP locally, wut

[whole yew]

i use python scripts on the devbox that i call from vim to push to git for my runner to work. i don't like to leave a lot of things on my laptop to clutter it up.

[shut hawk]

just to confirm, we're talking vim and not neovim?

[lean cargo]

Same. I like to setup dedicated dev hosts on my home server to keep stuff organized.

[sinful moon]

Realistically they're interchangeable in any convo

My muscle memory is so strong I just have vim aliased to nvim

[shut hawk]

alias nano=vim

[sinful moon]

Now that's evil, just set your $EDITOR properly

[devout palm]

From now on, my screen saver is vim screen. You can't quit until you learn how to.

[sinful moon]

lol that's something I enjoyed about using Linux without a display manager and etc for years. No one knows what the heck to do when they're presented with bare Linux login prompt compared to a pretty GUI

[lean cargo]

alias nano='echo "Get a real editor."'

[shut hawk]

who needs Win+L when you have this

[sinful moon]

It's kind of like for the people who stole my iPod 5.5gen with Rockbox back in the day. Hope they're enjoying Rockbox, probably thought it's a knockoff or something lol

custom firmware all the things

[pallid lotus]

Amusing until you realise that ChatGPT is cheating off everyone else in the room...

[hushed heath]

[sinful moon]

"It took years of hard work for us to steal beans from farmers, apply our unique brand of magic, and seek investment from our nation’s finest rubes and oafs,” a Beanco spokesman said. “Now DeepBean wants to steal our magic beans, rebrand the magic, and get money from their own buffoons and clods? It’s just not right."

Source: https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/01/chinas-new-and-cheaper-magic-beans-shock-americas-unprepared-magic-bean-salesmen/

[devout palm]

I despise AI

[sinful moon]

Indeed, it has only been of value to me exactly once

[devout palm]

And i am obsessive

[blissful snow]

does any know how to switch chromeos to linux

[sick lance]

Is the chromebook yours?

[blissful snow]

yes

[sinful moon]

That is a very very compliated question and depends on your specific hardware

[blissful snow]

my school gave out free laptop for a event

not school laptops

[sinful moon]

Although technically you are already running Linux lol

[blissful snow]

yeah chrome os is bad tho

also the hp i have is horrible

[sinful moon]

Just from memory though, this is one of the easier ways: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

[blissful snow]

thanks

[cunning viper]

Where u from

[sinful moon]

mhmm, there's way more options but they can get pretty complicated

[blissful snow]

why?

[sinful moon]

oh "crouton is now end-of-life" lol rip

[cunning viper]

Country I meant

[blissful snow]

ik

[sinful moon]

Either way just do some basic googling and you'll be fine

[blissful snow]

okkk

i didn't wanna break any thing

then i would be down to one laptop

i use to have 5 😭

[blazing granite]

I hear you. I used chrome os once and I felt claustrophobic, like I was stuck in a chrome browser with no escape 😂

[blissful snow]

lol

[cunning viper]

U from Europe

[blissful snow]

no

[cunning viper]

Asia?

[blissful snow]

nope

[cunning viper]

Ok

[sinful moon]

the moon

[cunning viper]

,😂

[blissful snow]

your close

[cunning viper]

America?

[blissful snow]

no closer to the moon

[cunning viper]

Then u from mars

[sinful moon]

logically the ISS would be the next guess

[cunning viper]

@sinful moon how can I join the study session

[grizzled wing]

finally did the Skynet CTF

[sinful moon]

what study session lol

[grizzled wing]

the voice chat?

[cunning viper]

Small study room

[cunning viper]

Yeh

[sinful moon]

Oh

[sharp citrus]

Discord: How Do I Verify My TryHackMe Account?

Article Link

https://help.tryhackme.com/en/articles/6495858-discord-how-do-i-verify-my-tryhackme-account

Jan 31, 2025, 4:45 PM

[cunning viper]

Yeah

I'm purple noww

[grizzled wing]

you are 0xNeo

w3lcom3 to the THM matrix

[cunning viper]

How can I get green color

[grizzled wing]

do 100+ rooms

[cunning viper]

Ah

[mellow narwhal]

I had a bad experience with this once, I quit the whole rev shell and restarted, then installed nano 🤣

[cunning viper]

U support LGBTQ smthng??

[grizzled wing]

support, am , etc

[lost birch]

where can you find malware samples? I'm interested in using what I've learnt about analysis in practice to try write a mini-report

[cunning viper]

Bruh

[opaque flax]

Is an advanced topic

[mellow narwhal]

There are some THM rooms which contain malware samples

[lost birch]

I know there's an advanced channel....

omg

[grizzled wing]

"malware" is advanced channel topic

hah

[mellow narwhal]

You can copy them off Github too, but do so at your own risk

[lost birch]

Can we just not talk about it at all 🤣🤣

my goodness

[sick lance]

This defeats the purpose of having advanced channels.

[opaque flax]

I beat you too it. It also means I am an advanced channel topic

[rapid merlin]

yo guys

[mellow narwhal]

What do you mean?

[lost birch]

Fine can we discuss analysis techniques then or is that not allowed too

[grizzled wing]

"when you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready"

[rapid merlin]

can u pls help me i am new to hacking and idk where to start

[sick lance]

Telling somebody to copy malware files from github is not a great idea.

[cunning viper]

How do we get into advanced channel

[lost birch]

cyber sec 101 is a great series of rooms imo

[opaque flax]

#start-here

[sharp citrus]

Discord: What are the advanced channels?

Article Link

https://help.tryhackme.com/en/articles/8671900-discord-what-are-the-advanced-channels

Jan 31, 2025, 4:51 PM

[grizzled wing]

#start-here

[rapid merlin]

alr

[grizzled wing]

Malarum and i typing contest

[opaque flax]

I beat you to it again

[lost birch]

.

[grizzled wing]

ha

[balmy sigil]

Can somebody help me with fileinc? im a beginner to pentesting and i have like no clue whwat task 4 is

[mellow narwhal]

Makes sense 😄 I've seen some ones with educational purpose, but I don't doubt there'd be actual malicious ones too

[sinful moon]

#room-help

[mellow narwhal]

This I wasn't aware of at all

Thanks for sharing

[grizzled wing]

did you ask in #room-help ?

[balmy sigil]

just did sorry

[grizzled wing]

im slow typer apparently

[cunning viper]

Bro learn networking

[grizzled wing]

then patience, you will get help

[sick lance]

I mean, the only way to verify that would be download and run, ironically.

[lost birch]

Look I'm not trying to be annoying

[sinful moon]

lol there are numerous rooms on Networking on TryHackMe

[cunning viper]

Then learn python language

[lost birch]

I get why you restrict it

[sick lance]

If it's related to malware, no, this needs to be done in the advanced channels.

[cosmic pendant]

oh boy

[grizzled wing]

toast

[lost birch]

but do I really have to carry on until OxD before I'm deemed worthy

of speaking about it

[mellow narwhal]

I did that in my VM. They did simple stuff mostly (printing a message, etc)
But then again, that was defined in the documentation.

[grizzled wing]

yea

[sick lance]

Yeah.

Pretty much.

[lost birch]

mhm

[sinful moon]

I mean there's other paths to Advanced Room greatness, but yeah 0xD is one of the easier ways

[lost birch]

I just want to learn that's the thing 😂

[grizzled wing]

its dangerous content, so it is safety in practice

[mellow narwhal]

What are the other ways?

[lost birch]

Yeah I get it

[sick lance]

Can we please stop suggesting where to get samples from 😄

[sinful moon]

We have documentation on this

[blissful snow]

ok

[lost birch]

alr fairs

[sinful moon]

also lol it's very obvious where to get samples from if you follow common infosec news and information sources

that's all I will say

[mellow narwhal]

Just read it. Yeah, the only way I'll ever get OSCP is if someone sponsors it for me 🤣
I guess I'll join y'all when I reach 0xD

[sinful moon]

Yeah you'll be there in no time, no worries

[lost birch]

does one begin with B and end in AR

just asking

Is it trustworthy that's all I want to know

[blissful snow]

what brand of laptop would yall recommend for ethical hacking that cheap

[sinful moon]

lol I can't answer that really but not the one I'm thinking of

[lost birch]

Wait that's a dumb question actually

No malware sample website is trustworthy

Lol

[sick lance]

Is it really worth the mute?

[grizzled wing]

if you have a subscription
https://tryhackme.com/r/room/intromalwareanalysis

[lost birch]

OK sorry

[sick lance]

Cause it this stage, that's what it will come to 🙂

[mellow narwhal]

I read that four times to understand it

[lost birch]

I thought not naming it was ok

I'll stop

Sorry for the inconvenience

[mellow narwhal]

Malware is interesting... but also dangerous 😅

[lost birch]

Agreed

[blissful snow]

yeah

[mellow narwhal]

I guess its worth getting 0xD to discuss it

After all, its a somewhat advanced topic

[grizzled wing]

https://tryhackme.com/r/room/malmalintroductory
free room

[lost birch]

Yeah to be fair I haven't done this room, I've just been reading a book

[grizzled wing]

ok, i posted 2 links so you can get started

[lost birch]

thanks

[blissful snow]

I'm a long way from 0xD :(

[lost birch]

pepper 🙂

[grizzled wing]

baby steps take you to the mountain

[sinful moon]

It is indeed really best you learn the basics before even diving into live samples anyways

[blissful snow]

yeah

[lost birch]

I don't know how much I'm allowed to say..

about what my intentions were

[blissful snow]

were they bad

[lost birch]

No no never

[grizzled wing]

for malware chitchat the assumption is illegal activity (that is for me at least)

[lost birch]

I meant describing the analysis

[sinful moon]

one of the sources I see posts DMs they get about "help bro, I ran one of your malware on my computer and now it's ransomwared, what do"

lol, what did you expect

[lost birch]

Idk if that's OK

it was to be done in a lab for that reason

I'll say that ig

Im at uni

[sinful moon]

mhmm but even with your lab setup you have to be very careful about how you go about it

[lost birch]

yh true..

[limpid igloo]

Hi everyone! I'm working on a small automation project that could be really helpful for me. It involves managing multiple accounts efficiently. If you're interested, feel free to DM me

[lost birch]

I'll learn more - got ahead of myself IG..

Don't know much about sandboxing yet. Only static.

[grizzled wing]

all of the THM room content on malware make it very clear the danger involved

[lost birch]

I'll do the rooms

Thanks sudo_veggies

sry scrubz

[blissful snow]

when i was younger i had like 45 different RATS

on my computer

[sinful moon]

what lol

I don't even want to know how or why

[lost birch]

💀💀💀

[eager marsh]

Impressive

[lost birch]

madness

[grizzled wing]

if you want extra reading content follow Citizen Labs from University of Toronto, they are great

[blissful snow]

I loved free games

lol

[sinful moon]

Even then... just I'll stop myself there, nevermind

[lost birch]

I've heard about their work on Pegasus 🙂

[blissful snow]

and one day i got on and it was just stuck on cmd prompt

[lost birch]

But ive not read it yet!

[sinful moon]

"free roblox cash how 2" in google and similar I'm sure

[polar shale]

2nd tea brew goin crazy

[grizzled wing]

blakey tea time!

[lost birch]

Yesss theres a module for this stuff

[sinful moon]

I don't even know what the roblox currency is lol, I am far too old

[polar shale]

Hehe 😗 tea time it is ! 🍵

[blissful snow]

I still do

[lost birch]

Love tea time

[grizzled wing]

i am way past caring about gaming and roblox

[blissful snow]

robux

[lost birch]

Ur making me want some though lol

[blissful snow]

I remember those days

[polar shale]

Yess!

[sinful moon]

ouch awful pun, thanks for the info though

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @blissful snow (current: #1726 - 2)

[lost birch]

Wanted them way too much.

I did surveys 🤣🤣🤣

Then put fake info in

[grizzled wing]

/ tea

[lost birch]

I've never seen this tea before

[polar shale]

Lol I can get behind this too

[lost birch]

what is it

[grizzled wing]

loose leaf tea

[sinful moon]

Green tea

[polar shale]

It is a sencha

[blissful snow]

sa me

[polar shale]

Loose leaf

Sencha green tea

[grizzled wing]

🍃

[polar shale]

One of my favorites

[lost birch]

I love green tea

[sinful moon]

Nice though, I broke out the Google Translator OCR to check

[lost birch]

Never tried that one though

Know where to get it?

[blissful snow]

is it just me or does hp rull really slow under 18 percent

[sinful moon]

I mean I don't like any HP consumer devices, but I do not know what you mean by that

[polar shale]

Amazon has some but it is best to use a forwarder for foreign teas for better quality

I like Japanese and Chinese teas

Been getting into Puerh tea as well but need to order some

[blissful snow]

when it gets to 18 percent it runs really slow

[sinful moon]

If you mean under 18% battery, you may have Windows power settings doing that and throttling

[polar shale]

Same yea i cant read that even though i drink it 😂 i just know is good 👍

Really light green color for brew shows good quality lots ummami flavor

[lone thistle]

Hello:)

Officially, feel free to stream the free scenarios 🙂

We will have certain restrictions on future scenarios as such those focused to B2B 🙂

[polar shale]

Sorry im addicted too tea lol. I study and then just think about and drink tea

[sinful moon]

Nice!

[grizzled wing]

ben!!!!

[lone thistle]

howdy

[grizzled wing]

busy i bet

[lone thistle]

always 😎 had some with the AttackBox this week

[sinful moon]

We always love seeing our resident Ben 10

[lone thistle]

4 rollbacks in production

all fun and games

[sinful moon]

hah sounds about right

[lone thistle]

a little bit of production fixing never hurt no one riiight? 😄

[lone thistle]

too kind ❤️

[sinful moon]

mhmm

[grizzled wing]

🚧 construction zone

[lost birch]

how is everyone 🙂

[lone thistle]

ayyy good!

preppin to go for a night out at the big age of 25