general

[finite basalt]

We don't have as much as we'd like but I don't think half the members would interact anyway

we had 50 members pay this year, maybe 25 who attended, that dropped to maybe 12 by the very end

[topaz falcon]

I think on our own end it's similar ish, idk

[finite basalt]

and we had guest speakers in, practicals, took feedback from them and all

[ripe sleet]

Did you have the issue where people join during a get involved fair then like 1 or none of the people who signed up go there?

[topaz falcon]

Guest speakers we have as well but it's mainly for the women's cyber club

Which ngl I feel is more involved than the the cyber club is in general

[finite basalt]

nah we actually got quite a few people who signed up and attended from there at least for a while

we also had lockpicking workshops etc.

like we teach lockpicking at the freshers stand each year

[topaz falcon]

Our workshops are like basic thm rooms

But not thm related

[finite basalt]

ours currently are, I was one of two who made an effort to make custom content for a society workshop

[ripe sleet]

In the club at my uni, we did custom ctfs

[finite basalt]

we have a ctf team tbf but we never did custom ctfs

[topaz falcon]

We have custom ctfs as well but for some of the activities you have to be accepted into the group of that part to do so iirc

[ripe sleet]

I was the president of that club as well, and I developed a whole storyline for it

[finite basalt]

but just in general I think one of the good things about these societies is that they kind of help you learn soft skills

like you end up networking, going to conferences etc. and you develop those important soft skills, unfortunately next year they're thinking of taking some of that away and having remote sessions for things like thm which I understand why (eduroam on campus blocks vpns and a lot of resources); however, they're already becoming an antisocial lot and I think it'll further that
I had a lad who joined conversations by muttering to himself about random things until you asked him what he was saying, and I feel like being around more people would help them get out of habits like that with time

[ripe sleet]

We went to like two conferences. One was a Hackathon, and the other for this workshop of sorts at another college. But I would've done more if we had a budget

[finite basalt]

we go up to scotland for securitay each year, go to the local Bsides, DC monthly meetings and smaller groups within the soc go to conferences around the country

[ripe sleet]

If I had more time there, I would've 100% created a horror storyline with an ARG and stuff during the october period

[finite basalt]

I rate that, unfortunately I didn't have the time

[ripe sleet]

I just don't know movie magic for most of my ideas, cause I already know what I would do

[finite basalt]

I would've done a talk on Wi-Fi but I was busy trying not to drown in my dissertation

[topaz falcon]

I wish we did. We never do. And our dudes are very anti social

[finite basalt]

I'm also nowhere near creative enough

[ripe sleet]

That's fair

[finite basalt]

that's the problem, you know it's bad when most of the first years whip out their laptops at the pub and don't talk to anyone

[ripe sleet]

We didn't stay for the 2nd day of the hackathon though

[merry dome]

Hey Bruda

[ripe sleet]

We did go to Raising Cane's though and that was amazing

[finite basalt]

it was absolutely diabolical, and we wanted to do better than last year and make more of an effort to talk to the first years only to get pied off with the back of a laptop 😭

[topaz falcon]

At least y'all got to the pub, be nice to be off campus. They just go to a random room on campus like a lecture hall which I don't feel instills much of an environment to communicate

[shut hawk]

thats awfull doe

we don't even have a functional CS society

[finite basalt]

no we did that and then walked to the pub, they were immersed in their laptops and it was painful and embarrassing

[merry dome]

Hey , can i ask on which topic are you guys talking?

[ripe sleet]

Uh club stuff on Uni's?

[topaz falcon]

Also tbh the bars in my country are expensive anyways so probably wouldn't be worth it anyhow

[finite basalt]

I literally said that historically, our compsci society has always been the stranger and more antisocial lot and this year our society's outdone them 😭

[merry dome]

Nope , i am new in this community

[ripe sleet]

Barfood is the best food though

[finite basalt]

eh, depends

[merry dome]

I joined through THM

[finite basalt]

some of it bangs, some of it's evil

[topaz falcon]

I feel it's not entirely different because although I'm compsci, my concentration is in cyber, there is no purely cyber degree

[ripe sleet]

There are some really good bars near me

[topaz falcon]

For my clubs

[tight trout]

#start-here

[finite basalt]

yeah that's fair, it's not the same everywhere, it just so happens that our uni historically was like that when you look at it but no our society really plateau'd thisyear and I do fear it's really gonna go downhill next year but at the end of the day, not my monkey not my circus

[tight trout]

my uni has a cyber degree

[ripe sleet]

I wish my uni had a cyber degree

Supposedly there's one in the making for the masters

[mortal ether]

Welcome

[finite basalt]

we were kinda hoping that at least someone we know and respect would get a committee role to maybe save it and it ended up being a worst case scenario

[ripe sleet]

My degree was essentially Computer science without the math. So we didn't have to take calculus or anything. The only one we had to take was discrete math

[merry dome]

Thnx man

[topaz falcon]

Much prefer calculus than discrete. Discrete felt annoying

[finite basalt]

ah that's not too bad yeah

brb

[ripe sleet]

My teacher only curved the final. So like the 1st exam had a class average of like a 50

[finite basalt]

housemate's off shops so I'm off on a trip

[topaz falcon]

I prefer taking the compsci degree though, I need it anyways for where I want to go in cyber.

[topaz falcon]

Same with our second and final.

[ripe sleet]

That class was probably the second hardest class in my major

[topaz falcon]

Same for compsci

[ripe sleet]

Business analytics was the right of passage due to writing technical papers and stuff.

Though making memes of the professor was fun though

[topaz falcon]

Think I only take my cyber classes finally during this last year. It security, systems and software security, cryptography and maybe one more.

So hopefully they'll get us writing technical reports because it's mainly been compsci stuff

[topaz falcon]

Based

[ripe sleet]

I was close to do this one thing in the good ol' murica called the scholarship for service where I was going to have a bunch of opportunities and stuff but budget cuts have pretty my axed that

One of the things was like getting to go to an exclusive job fair and others, and the frustrating part is that I was literally IN, before that happened.

[topaz falcon]

My most hated professor was a German physicist in quantum computing looking like Edna and speaks very quietly teaching design and analysis of algorithms 80s method where using other websites would be cheating and no programming done, all pseudo code

I am thankfully paid mainly from the Pell grant

[ripe sleet]

I was only interested in the opportunities for it

[topaz falcon]

I am sorry that happened though.

[ripe sleet]

C'est la vie

Can't do much, since it's out of one's control

[topaz falcon]

All I can say is I can't wait to leave this country and try new food

Maybe have something that isn't sugarfied to all hell 😭

I love micriplastics

[ripe sleet]

Oh?

[topaz falcon]

I'm attempting to move to a different country for a while after uni, goal is Taiwan but maybe Ireland before then.

[ripe sleet]

I went to Ireland before in 2019

It was fun

[topaz falcon]

Probably permanently, end goal is Taiwan

[ripe sleet]

I think Belfast has a warhammer minature store I think

[topaz falcon]

That's pretty cool

[ripe sleet]

I think it's Bellfast

I kissed the blarney stone there

[topaz falcon]

Doesn't ring a bell

Anyways gtg drive cousin to work, have a nice day y'all

[ripe sleet]

Have a good day cya! Safe Travels! It was nice talking to you as well!

[boreal scarab]

[molten tartan]

Huge props to the Linux privelege escalation room, it was very fun and well done in generell, keep up the good work.

[edgy crag]

h

[boreal scarab]

Did not mean to post that lol

[digital dust]

https://tenor.com/view/hagrid-harry-potter-i-should-not-have-said-that-harry-potter-quotes-gif-12122342

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/steal-this-is-mine-run-gif-15431338

[sand trench]

YAY postnord now got shadows switches package

boo it is not gonna be here for another 3-5 days

[boreal scarab]

Is it from....

https://tenor.com/view/trump-china-gif-284632875632280687

[tight trout]

hey at least it's on its way

[sand trench]

sadly enough yes even though it seemed it would have shipped from germany

[pallid lotus]

Proper switches or keyboard switches?

[sand trench]

keyboard switches

[pallid lotus]

Boo

[sand trench]

sorry to disapoint muiri

[sand trench]

also would you trust switches from china???

[tight trout]

#site-support

[gusty inlet]

#pt1

Seems like other people got this issue too.

[naive violet]

Where else are they manufactured?

Do you inspect supply chains?

[sand trench]

dunno but would think india is picking up speed
and nope shadow does not inspect supply chains

[topaz falcon]

China can actually be really good for products (especially some electronic ones)

Their quality has increased over the years, India's becoming cheaper to manufacture in than China though, so it's gaining speed in India now.

[muted bough]

I am using Ubuntu rn guys new OS first time on Ubuntu

I got it as main OS too

[topaz falcon]

Unfortunate, you're supposed to be using gentoo

[muted bough]

lol

[topaz falcon]

Everyone knows using lfs is the proper way

[bitter mantle]

I spend a significant portion of my day configuring Gentoo to act as a kiosk OS for SAP

LFS is fun

[tight trout]

tsk tsk TempleOS much?

[muted bough]

U can just use warp to automate things u know?

[topaz falcon]

How dare you say such holy words in a unholy place

[knotty valve]

?

[bitter mantle]

I'm paid by the hour

[topaz falcon]

Just build the CPU from scratch

[chilly veldt]

morning ashlynn

[muted bough]

Free money then

[knotty valve]

Morning Bella!

[chilly veldt]

gotta love timezones

[knotty valve]

Fr

[chilly veldt]

it's almost 11pm here

[bitter mantle]

Nah I gotta looks busy. I've been getting away with studying for the CySA+ all day though so that's cool

[muted bough]

I am out to sleep it's 11 p.m

[bitter mantle]

I just wear my headset I use for video calls and people leave me alone

[knotty valve]

It's 6:43am here

[tight trout]

15:44 here

[muted bough]

Damn how dare u wake at such hour

😭

[knotty valve]

I have work today 😔

[muted bough]

Sad I am student

I have 4 month summer break

[knotty valve]

I study and work lol

[muted bough]

LMFAO

Too sad

[topaz falcon]

What a productive person

[tight trout]

the best(worst?) of both worlds

[bitter mantle]

Ayyy study+work gang let's go

[chilly veldt]

tomorrow is a holiday for me

[tight trout]

what's the holiday?

[muted bough]

I gotta fast tmrw

[chilly veldt]

Constitution day

[pallid lotus]

Would you trust switches from America?

Also, where do you think your computer's components were made?

[sand trench]

to the same degree as chinese ones yes

[sand trench]

depends on which of shadows computers you are refering to but most parts are from tiawan last shadow checked

[pallid lotus]

And the others?

[topaz falcon]

A lot of parts are made from China proper, rather than Taiwan.

[sand trench]

china
canada
some parts of europe shadow did not keep track of for reasons
the usa

[pallid lotus]

Yeeeaaaaap

[sand trench]

but the usa is just about as trust worthy as china is so no problems there

[pallid lotus]

Yeeeaaaaaap

[sick lance]

Don't trust anyone.

3d print your own.

[pallid lotus]

Yeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaap

[knotty valve]

Yes

[sand trench]

ah thanks scrubz... shadows distrust for their toes is so great that they stub them at least once a month

[pallid lotus]

That genuinely doesn't surprise me

[sick lance]

You know at this point, it's not a goal, right?

Right?

[ripe sleet]

That's possible for computer parts? How would it work for the actual circuit board part of it?

[sand trench]

yeah it is mostly accidents

and poor control of where doorframes and stuff is

[pallid lotus]

Mostly

[knotty valve]

Shit

Forgot that had that

[topaz falcon]

Careful homie

[sand trench]

yeeeeaaaaaap

[pallid lotus]

That Celsius or Fahrenheit?

[knotty valve]

Yeah I just noticed

[knotty valve]

Celsius

[pallid lotus]

You'll be fine

[sand trench]

shadow is currently using open source hardware for their headphones and mouse so that is something at least

[knotty valve]

I have no cold tolerance anymore

[topaz falcon]

Oh I use proprietary for everything

Even my food

Even my house, appliances

Everything

Even my clothes

[tight trout]

it left with the testosterone fr

[topaz falcon]

All proprietary. Microsoft sends me letters every now and then to thank me for arguing on open source projects to further the proprietary cause

[stark trench]

I’m curious to know how many people here got into cyber and stay in it from passion, and not just the $$$$ ?

[tight trout]

wait you guys are getting money?

[topaz falcon]

I'm in it because I enjoy it but I need money to survive man

[pallid lotus]

In Scotland we call 3°C "Summer"

[stark trench]

I love this

[tight trout]

what's winter like?

[sand trench]

-40

unless you want that temp in rankine or kelvin -40 is accurate

[topaz falcon]

Sounding like a front end Dev on linkedin

[knotty valve]

Same in Ireland but since starting HRT my body hates the cold and hot

[topaz falcon]

How is Ireland?

[shadow river]

I love the pen testing/red teaming field coming from a network admin/sys admin world. I am still hunting down the money part but I think it's a ton of fun to do.

[stark trench]

Completely understandable

[pallid lotus]

Feckin' cold

[topaz falcon]

Just borrow some copper

Easy money.

[sand trench]

enough so that spit goes clink???

[chilly veldt]

hmmm, need a new phone

[crystal mauve]

Pinephone

[topaz falcon]

I think there are still produced Japanese flip phones that can run Discord and the like, they're cool

[stark trench]

Are you a current sys admin transitioning or have you already ? And I get it, from what I’ve seen tho in cyber your knowledge can take you anywhere so I wouldn’t worry about it, it’ll come soon

[sick lance]

3d print them too.

3d print everything!

[chilly veldt]

beginning to throw my old phone in the ring, cause it needs to be charged like 2-3 times a day

[sick lance]

The wires, screws and tools.

[shadow river]

I transitioned roughly 7 years ago

[chilly veldt]

and is also like 4 years old shitty oneplus I got for 1kr

[digital dust]

loves Oneplus

[stark trench]

Nice

[chilly veldt]

might jump over to pixel 9pro

and then install graphene on it too

[sand trench]

graphene os or no graphene os???
super repairable or not???
price range???

[shut hawk]

if you don't mind the weight, look into rugged phones

[sand trench]

for now shadow is happy with their fairphone 5

[digital dust]

Got gifted a rPi 5 16GB earlier, not quite sure what to do with it though. Was considering running it as an attack box but figuring it might be a tad under powered - anyone tried this?

[chilly veldt]

I am more over at the cpu in pixels tbh

[shut hawk]

not under powered, thats fine

[sand trench]

arm for hacking computer??

[chilly veldt]

but the thought of switching my main phone to graphene os just means I manually have to copy stuff over

[tight trout]

pihole!

[shut hawk]

eh you may encounter some more difficulties, but nothing major

[sand trench]

nbtv has a good video of why restoring from backups on phone can be a bad idea

[digital dust]

Already got an older Pi doing that for me. Got it running Pi-Hole and Unbound.

[sand trench]

that is way to good of specs to use only for pihole

[chilly veldt]

it's not going to be backup, but auto transfer pics etc.

[sand trench]

fair enoughs then

shadow just moves all their images of their phone and into backup storage at least once a month

[tight trout]

well yeah duh

[sand trench]

you could set it up to host a personal kiwix instance for reading wikis offline but that is more storage bound then other factors

[chilly veldt]

I can grab a pixel 9 pro for 765USD

[sand trench]

yeah that is reasonable

but you should go to the store in person
wear a hoodie and a cap
and some sunglasses
also pay in cash

[chilly veldt]

xD

my threat model isn't that high

[upper nexus]

@ripe sleet yoooo

[chilly veldt]

I'll just buy it through my sim card subscription, that's how I can get it so cheap

[sand trench]

fair enoughs

not the route shadow takes but oh well

[shut hawk]

very undetectable

[chilly veldt]

I know, again, my threat model isn't that high, sure I would love the no tracking, but it's a want not a need, and if I really need it, I got 2 phones that is untraceable to me already xD

[sand trench]

naaah not undetectable the point is not being able to be recognised by store cameras and not linking a debit and/or credit card to the purchase of the phone

[upper nexus]

What is threat model

[ripe sleet]

Ah that's who pinged me

[shut hawk]

u are going to stick out like a sore thumb

[upper nexus]

Yoo How's your day :D

[ripe sleet]

Good

[chilly veldt]

this would be my 5th phone in my roster shadow, I ain't nervous about this being linked to me

[sand trench]

yuups and shadow also gotta figure out how to change their gate to also be harder to trace

[sick lance]

Skip

[ripe sleet]

Do all of you have the skin that burns easily as well?

[upper nexus]

Can u be my hacker man 2.0 :D

[shut hawk]

sadly

[ripe sleet]

Hence why I hate the sun, and the sun hates me

[sand trench]

it is a model of what you consider threats to your
anonymity
privacy
security

[upper nexus]

Ooh I see

[ripe sleet]

Uh, in what capacity

[sand trench]

and what steps you take to avoid those happening

[upper nexus]

Help me out if I am stuck somewhere :(

[sand trench]

was more thinking of placing rocks or pebbles in shoes while also limping but skip is also an option

[upper nexus]

Oh okay

[ripe sleet]

I mean within reason of course

[sand trench]

paranoid delusions goes BRRRRRRR

[ripe sleet]

If you're like hey, how do I do [x, Illegal thing] I'll prolly say no

[sand trench]

though it is not paranoia if they are actually after you :D

[ripe sleet]

Paranoid delusions are fun at like 5 AM where you think someone is watching you

And you think you see a shadow person, but nothing is really there

[sand trench]

oh that is just shadow zipping past

[ripe sleet]

That's a long distance to be traveling

That's like a 13 hour flight

[sand trench]

well just open a portal here or there in the abyss and darkness

and voila fast travel

[ripe sleet]

You gotta market that, you'd make billions

Though you'd prolly bankrupt the entire automobile industry

[frozen sable]

Oh that's just the hat man, tell him I'll pay him back next time I pass out on benadryl.

[ripe sleet]

I have yet to see the hat man. He seems like an interesting person

[sand trench]

sadly it took shadow 5500 years to learn and master

[frozen sable]

His loan rate is pretty good tbh. Last personal loan I got from him was 8.99%.

[sand trench]

also have a feeling all you humans trying it might end up stuck in weird places

[ripe sleet]

It'll take a few sacrifices, but in the end it should work

[tight trout]

worth it tbh

[ripe sleet]

In before you teleport 2 miles above ground somewhere

[vital bear]

hey guys need help

[ripe sleet]

With what

[vital bear]

i have someone ip adress just want to know his current location with houser number or flat name can anyone help me

[tight trout]

we do not condone that here

[ripe sleet]

[vital bear]

lol someone is blackmailing me

[tight trout]

contact your local authorities

[vital bear]

so can anone tell me how do i know his location i have his ip adress

[frozen sable]

Nobody here is going to do that for you.

[tight trout]

this is a space for ethical hacking and cybersecurity learning, we will not help you

[ripe sleet]

Don't IP's tell the general area instead of specific locations?

I remember learning about that in my networking class

I could mixing it up with something else as well

[vital bear]

it's ethical not any kind of fruad i need help , i get his Ip adress by grabify.link app

[brisk ore]

dude that's illegal 💀

[frozen sable]

It's not ethical. If you're being blackmailed reach out to your local authorities and have them deal with it through the correct and LEGAL channels.

[vital bear]

yea but he was blackmailing me so for to find a criminal nothing is illegal

[sick lance]

That is illegal.

[frozen sable]

For all we know you're the one trying to do the blackmailing.

[sick lance]

Two wrongs don't make a right.

[vital bear]

lol in my country local authorities never do work we have to manage thing by our own

[frozen sable]

Again, still doesn't mean it's ethical.

[stark sequoia]

hows everyone doing this fine day/night

[ripe sleet]

Good! How about you?

[vital bear]

ahh I'm not i can share evrything that proof me that i'm the one who is getting blackmail

[stark sequoia]

glad to hear it

[tight trout]

chillin, yourself?

[stark sequoia]

yep chilling

[civic spade]

hello is it normal that when i do smth in the website the website becames white ?

[tight trout]

found an album that hits, so i've been playing it over and over again

[ripe sleet]

What Genre of music?

[sand trench]

hoping to go honk mi mi mi

[stark sequoia]

yeah its getting late for me too

dont feel like sleeping yet though

[ripe sleet]

I have a presumptuous request, could I get the name to that albumn?

[stark sequoia]

do share the album, im curious now

[sand trench]

musicbrainz entry thank ye

[tight trout]

Scripted - Icon for Hire

[topaz falcon]

I think you'd like chikoi the maid

[last harbor]

It’s not normal

But

It depends on if its a glitch or it’s deliberate

[stark sequoia]

ngl i just heard the overture and it already slaps

[tight trout]

it hooked me fr

[sand trench]

https://musicbrainz.org/release/68906d17-4942-4640-a9b6-b6a9218f988b

[civic spade]

idk it only does when submit an answer or write smt

[sand trench]

enjoy as much info you can get about that music without using spotify or youtube music to listen to it

[topaz falcon]

I just don't listen to music. My favorite is rock music, but lately the construction site is playing metal

[inner tendon]

E

[topaz falcon]

Holy shit it's goku

[inner tendon]

Holy shit its a cat

[topaz falcon]

Guess what goku

[inner tendon]

Chicken butt?

[topaz falcon]

No not that

[civic spade]

@last harbor it only do it to me ?

[last harbor]

Send ss

[topaz falcon]

Guess Mr. Goku

[tight trout]

apple music web player has been broken for me for a while, so ive been relying on youtube

[last harbor]

Show me the ss

[ripe sleet]

I use spotify for music primarily

[last harbor]

Same

[sand trench]

personally stick to bandcamp and qobuz here for nearly all music

[inner tendon]

A car

[topaz falcon]

Honestly yeah it was going to be chicken butt.

[stark sequoia]

chicken jockey?

[ripe sleet]

I've almost reached the 260 hr mark for this one playlist. For the amount of songs in there

[inner tendon]

https://tenor.com/view/goku-dragon-ball-z-serious-gif-12415086

Later chat

[inner tendon]

[topaz falcon]

😔

[rapid merlin]

Hi anyone explain why my computer stopped showing the WiFi button

[stark sequoia]

@tight trout so far all songs from that album slapped!

[tight trout]

im more concerned abouyt your battery lol

[inner tendon]

what the...

[rapid merlin]

Its close to being bricked

[inner tendon]

Did you try clicking the arrows on the side

[rapid merlin]

Ffs

[stark sequoia]

pictures taken moments before disaster (shutdown)

[rapid merlin]

Aye

Yeah it’s 6 year old but its my baby
Went on the fritz today

[austere verge]

Mine used to do that too

[stark sequoia]

the problem i see is that you are using windows

wait

we have the same laptop lmaooo

[tight trout]

try reconnecting to a network, and see if that makes it reappear

[rapid merlin]

No option to connect not even in settings

It’s fucking weird man

[inner tendon]

@rapid merlin

https://youtube.com/shorts/U5W2kJ9iZTg?si=_uu5lK7ucGD-ng_Q

I think this may help

[topaz falcon]

Restart?

[austere verge]

Yes

Restart fixes everything

[stark sequoia]

surely a restart would work yeah

[tight trout]

with battery that low, would it boot back in?

[rapid merlin]

Im in my 50th restart

[rapid merlin]

Battery is fucked

It’s a plugged in pc

[topaz falcon]

Maybe it's time for a new one

[stark sequoia]

time to turn it to a home server

[gloomy rune]

best channel to ask an appsec question?

[inner tendon]

V0id did you watch the video?

[topaz falcon]

If you're in the states Blair tech has great cheap laptops refurbished

[tight trout]

gonna be honest, i'd exfil as much data as you can from that before something really goes wrong if you've been having numerous issues with it

[last harbor]

U can ask here

[rapid merlin]

Yeah I’m just sad to see it go
It’s long past its expiry
Gpu issues galore
And now this shit haha

[gloomy rune]

anyone have any exp with OOB SQLi vulns?

[austere verge]

Idk how mine fixed itself

It used to do that too

[tight trout]

i've got a dual core pentium laptop that somehow still boots into its OS... sometimes

[stark sequoia]

i guess i would check 1. updates 2. if you are running out of storage

and maybe do a reset

[last harbor]

Kinda

I don’t have job experience in anything tbh but still

[rapid merlin]

Mine did too
Like it happened last month and suddenly started working
I almost had a funeral

[stark sequoia]

storage issues can cause a lot of other side effects

[rapid merlin]

True

I did download a 150 gig game recently

[stark sequoia]

maybe thats the problem

is it on ssd or hdd?

[rapid merlin]

Hdd

[stark sequoia]

the OS too?

[tight trout]

one of my profs kept getting logged out of sites and thought i hit him with some malware bc we'd been making jokes about it all semester, turns out he ran out of storage so the cookies coudlnt be saved lmao

[inner tendon]

^^^

[rapid merlin]

I’ll delete my big gig games and see if it fixes it
Honestly that computer has been through several stages of my life
It’s insane

[last harbor]

Omg teacher😭

[stark sequoia]

if everything is running on HDD its probably dying

might wanna do some defrags and whatnot

[last harbor]

One of my teacher is 60. Tday I peeked in my teachers phone accidentally and I saw tor browser on it. There were rumors that he’s a that type of person but the tor thing kinda confirmed it😭🙏

[stark sequoia]

or just straight up replace it

[vital bear]

guys i search his location

[rapid merlin]

It is, I was just in denial

[sand trench]

and gonna call it a night with the meep moops during beep boops

[rapid merlin]

Broke boi, at the moment
That laptop cost me 2 grand at the time

[tight trout]

hopefully you can get something better, for cheaper now

[ripe sleet]

Have a good night cya!

[tight trout]

gn!

[rapid merlin]

Yeah that’s what I’ll aim for hahah go to a second hand computer shop

[stark sequoia]

eh how expensive is a 1TB hdd replacement? probably less than 70 dollars

[tight trout]

gov surplus auctions are my beloved

[rapid merlin]

Think it’s the graphics card as well

So yeah a bit more than that

[stark sequoia]

if its the GPU rip

[gloomy rune]

long story short, verified some OOB SQLi vulns on an app using Burp Collaborator. got some DNS callbacks, so definitely hitting their backend. but on all attempts to actually exfiltrate data, I'm getting encoded responses. tried a buncha different encoding techniques and nothin. still think the app should not be making external DNS calls tho, so really a lil unsure on best practice to recommend to them

[soft furnace]

gud mornin

[rapid merlin]

Definitely is
Kept getting a blank screen

[stark sequoia]

could be worth checking with a repair store if its something they can fix

[tight trout]

mornin!

[stark sequoia]

otherwise its o7 for the laptop

[rapid merlin]

Cheers folks for your input!

[stark sequoia]

no worries!

[winged nimbus]

please tell me this is a shitpost

[rapid merlin]

Aye mate just thought I’d say that for a laugh

Jk haha

Nah it’s real, computers are weird things

Sorry for all my swearing btw if it offends anyone im Scottish so its normal for us ahah
I know some folk get weird about it

[tight trout]

you fucking swore? shit

its cool lol

[rapid merlin]

No fucking swearing in here

[last harbor]

The fact that u got DNS callbacks is critical proof that OOB communication is possible, which is a severe security flaw. So I suggest u explain the vulnerability and tell them how severe it is. And maybe give some examples of how those vulnerabilities were exploited by threat actors in the past

[last harbor]

Hallo gm

[stark sequoia]

aw shucks! no frigging way! we cant frigging swear now? 😠

[tight trout]

jinkies!

[rapid merlin]

Was in a chat on discord that said that it ain’t intelligent chat
Usual

[stark sequoia]

zoinks scoob!

[tight trout]

i mean like dont exclusively swear

[gloomy rune]

yeaaaaaa I've tried. all talks resulted in "everything ecnoded, all inputs validated, we have parameterized queries" etc etc (hard to believe lol), so I'm tryna gauge how much I should realistically push the issue. our DAST tools still hit on it. tried to ask for a DNS allowlists. buncha "meh, theres no real concern", yaknow

[ripe sleet]

So don't swear for every other word in a sentence?

[stark sequoia]

fun fact: there is a positive correlation with swearing and honesty

the more you swear, the more likely you are an honest person

[tight trout]

sometimes they just wont listen, which sucks but is an unfortunate reality of the world

[ripe sleet]

Swearing + rage brings the worst out of you

[chilly veldt]

I think I have bricked one of my phones lmao

[last harbor]

This is a common problem and that’s why, I told u to give real world examples. But if u did that too, I suggest that u don't back down. The DNS callbacks are a hard proof. The fact that u successfully did it shows that the OOB communication is possible. U should focus on the architectural flaw of uncontrolled outbound communication, the fundamental security principles being violated, and the high potential for abuse even if full exfiltration was thwarted in your specific test. Push for egress filtering/DNS allowlisting as a non-negotiable security control.

[ripe sleet]

When I was younger, I've demolished the screens of laptops through rage as well

[winged nimbus]

what is going on right now

[ripe sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/hololive-ホロライブ-hologra-ホロぐら-ookami-mio-gif-24700904

[wind lake]

touhou project

[boreal scarab]

No fuck you! I'll do whatever I damn well fucking please!

[ripe sleet]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1365553006111756308/1365556356844621914/hold-on-wait-a-minute.gif

[chilly veldt]

not bricked anymore

[digital dust]

https://tenor.com/view/jon-stewart-eat-eating-popcorn-watching-gif-3094746547306242594

[chilly veldt]

moved from graphene to lineage

[boreal scarab]

I can brick it for you!

https://tenor.com/view/getlit-blazekik-kik-meme-gif4kik-gif-1778728320613035878

[chilly veldt]

needed a rooted phone lmao

[soft furnace]

i think THM need to have roles for SAL1 & PT1

i want ittt

[tight trout]

they do

or well they did at least, i think there was some bot troubles

#general message

[stark sequoia]

i tried doing that to one of my oneplus phones for nethunter and ended up almost bricking it

[soft furnace]

nice, i’ll try it

[chilly veldt]

yeah, I got a pixel with graphene I just used quickly for going to china, now throwing lineage on it cause it's easier to root

[brisk ore]

https://tenor.com/view/demoman-hell-glue-team-fortress-gif-18563174

[rapid merlin]

Language….please

[digital dust]

A stiff assed Brit over here. Think we swear as much as you guys! Although I'll admit you do it better 😉

[patent quest]

Thought the Snort practice room was quite tedious until I did the Zeek Practice room and Wireshark traffic analysis

phew

[rapid merlin]

Goes both ways, bellend is one of my favourite diss’

[stark sequoia]

its perfect english, whats wrong with the language?

[rapid merlin]

That’s the joke

[stark sequoia]

yeah i know

[rapid merlin]

I should of put a laughing face hahahaha

[digital dust]

Ooh I think for me, and it's not even that bad is either turd or pleb! They just roll off the tounge perfectly!

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/english-motherfucker-speak-do-you-speak-it-sam-l-jackson-gif-4693590

[rapid merlin]

YESSSSSSS I WAS WAITING FOR THAT

[stark sequoia]

as a scottish hacker what does the phrase "hack it" mean to you 🤔

[brisk ore]

Pulp Fiction is peak

Also as an Englishman I swear just about as much lol

[boreal scarab]

@supple pulsar

[supple pulsar]

What?

What part of Scotland

If ye canny hack it, means you can’t cope

[stark sequoia]

apparently its slang for ugly (hackit)

[brisk ore]

Northern England is close enough and I've never heard it used in that context lol

[supple pulsar]

Oh yea, that’s hillbilly village patter

[brisk ore]

Explains that then

[supple pulsar]

But it really depends on what part of Scotland you’re taking about

[whole yew]

Whit's wrong wi' ye, that body wilnae be able tae ken it

[stark sequoia]

fair enough yeah

[brisk ore]

Inaccurate didn't mention Haggis

[supple pulsar]

Holy fuck that’s actually very good

Didn’t expect that from a yank

Juun is a teuchter it seems

[brisk ore]

If we ever need an interpreter for a Scottish shitpost

Well...

[wind lake]

juun is good at that stuff its scary

[whole yew]

le kek. Actually related to clan buchanan that fled scotland in the 1600s IIRC. It's been awhile since a direct family member has lived on the island.

[digital dust]

Wearing my kilt, eating a deep fried mars bar and drinking an Iron Bru whilst simultaneously hacking 5 nation states and playing my bagpipes! 😉

[supple pulsar]

1600s aren’t going to be talking like that but

[supple pulsar]

There is an o in that Irn, that’s like the German three mistake

[whole yew]

it's a fair cop. Equal Irish in the family tree, at least according to 23andMe. Rough equal parts Scots-Irish (indeterminate from genetic testing) and german, with a smidgen of Basque.

[brisk ore]

Iron Bru

[brisk ore]

FUCK YOU GOT THERE BEFORE ME

😔

[rapid merlin]

Good Morning

[brisk ore]

still 9 minutes to go till then but yea

morning

[rapid merlin]

its 4:22 AM still dawn here

how u doing kaeini

[brisk ore]

doing alright Ken wbu

[brisk ore]

just turning midnight in Britain

[rapid merlin]

i see

i used to do ctf before sleep

but sometimes that way i get very less sleep

so i changed scedule

i sleep after coming from work and do CTF after waking up

gave me more time

:>

[rapid merlin]

i see

[brisk ore]

nice

I've only done two CTFs personally before and did okay on both

[rapid merlin]

i see i only did 9

today is 10th

[brisk ore]

main reason I joined the website and here was so I can do better next time

[brisk ore]

ooooh you doing it now?

[rapid merlin]

yes

https://tryhackme.com/room/rrootme

seems very easy lol

but i am just doing it

[brisk ore]

it always starts off like that 😅

although I might give it a go myself if it is really that easy lol

[rapid merlin]

ye lol its very easy coz its more of walkthrought room

like it tells u what to do next with questions itself making it easy

[eager maple]

Hi

[eager maple]

True all questions,are easy(i am a begginer btw)
P.S:no one cares(also sorry for taking ur time)

[rapid merlin]

Lmao chill

Hello there

[eager maple]

Ok

Hi

[brisk ore]

Ahh right

[eager maple]

First time we've met

[rapid merlin]

i couldnt find directory task is looking for.... but found File Inclusion and RCE LOL

[rapid merlin]

yea

nvm found it

[eager maple]

Let s keep it a good relation(if u think i am arrogant rn just say it)

[rapid merlin]

u need to relax buddy and stop being pessimistic, u are fine

[eager maple]

Ok

I barely touch grass

Can't even know how to speak properly

[rapid merlin]

its fine

[eager maple]

Thx

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @brittle thunder (current: #658 - 9)

[rapid merlin]

sorry just doing ctf, so was finding reverse shell hehe

[eager maple]

I swear this bot has a beef with me

[rapid merlin]

why XD its just help community keep track of people who has helped others

unlike leveling bots

[eager maple]

Yeh

[rapid merlin]

which is actually annoying

[eager maple]

But everytime i say to someone thx it pings him

[eager maple]

Both of them

[rapid merlin]

only if you reply to someone and say thanks

[rapid merlin]

thanks

[eager maple]

Bro!

[rapid merlin]

and if u keep pings off.... it doesnt ping target

i was testing

lol

[eager maple]

Thanks

I never pinged

If i remember(sometimes i remember evrything sometimes i forget everything)

[ripe sleet]

Sounds sus

[eager maple]

True

[ripe sleet]

Sounds like the start of a pyramid scheme

[eager maple]

From wat i heard scammers always use telegarm

[eager maple]

More like webinars

Ja

Ig it's a bot

[grim sparrow]

Done!

[grim sparrow]

[BANSPAM] I cannot DM hugolarsson0224#0!

[mossy river]

Lack of moderation

[tight trout]

already deleted their account? lmao

[eager maple]

Thx

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @mossy river (current: #6 - 1619)

[eager maple]

How?

[ripe sleet]

There was a ruling where authorities could track telegram right?

[eager maple]

Idk

I don t use social media

[ripe sleet]

I could of sworn a someordinarygamer video was talking about this

[eager maple]

The paradise allegation?

[ripe sleet]

Could be something else too

[eager maple]

It has been a while since i watched youtube

[digital dust]

Does the /report command have to be a DM to the TryHackMe bot - given I received this message when trying to report the previous user: Command is disabled in this channel by server admins

[eager maple]

Idk

[digital dust]

Or does it work in the background?

[mossy river]

No

[digital dust]

Thanks.

[ripe sleet]

I think it was that something illegal happened and there was ruling where the police could track the stuff on Telegram

[mossy river]

You’re using the wrong bot

It’s @grim sparrow not @twin ridge

[eager maple]

Telegram is the land of scamming that s why

[ripe sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/hololive-ホロライブ-hologra-ホロぐら-ookami-mio-gif-24700904

[eager maple]

Quick question darkfly(u can ignore the question since it s no ones business)
Where are u from

[ripe sleet]

Murica

[eager maple]

Oh cool

[ripe sleet]

Yes

[pastel nexus]

Hey, can someone help me with something?

[ripe sleet]

What happened?

[digital dust]

Might be worth asking the question rather than asking to ask.

[pastel nexus]

I’m not being able to connect to the VPN

[eager maple]

Wich VPN

?

[ripe sleet]

Are you using the .ovpn file that you downloaded from THM?

[pastel nexus]

Yes

[ripe sleet]

I know sometimes if you run it before and it doesn't connect that you may have to kill the PID of the previous process to get it to run again

[pastel nexus]

I downloaded it, sudo openvpn .ovpn

[ripe sleet]

can you ping 10.10.10.10

[eager maple]

I don t like asking this type of questions , i find them weird?
Not respecting people s privacy or somthing like that?

[pastel nexus]

Nope

[ripe sleet]

If you can ping 10.10.10.10 and get a reply, or curl http://10.10.10.10 and see something related to being connected to thm then you're golden

Is this on a linux machine? I presume?

[pastel nexus]

Yes

[ripe sleet]

Did you just do .ovpn or did you include the actual filename of it?

[pastel nexus]

Just Alemartone.ovpn

[ripe sleet]

Is there an error message?

[pastel nexus]

No

It says initialization sequence completed

Thats why I think its weird

But whenever I go back to the access page on thm, and refresh the openVPN access details

Still says im not connected

[ripe sleet]

Is that page still broken?

Cause I know it was broken back in like december I think

[pastel nexus]

Hmmm… idk

Could be

[eager maple]

Wich page?

[pastel nexus]

Access page on thm

[eager maple]

Oh

Speaking of thm

And the virtual machine

Can u do wahtever u want with it or it s limited

Exclude the timer

[ripe sleet]

For the attackbox, or your own personal machine?

[eager maple]

Atackbox

[pastel nexus]

Its limited

[eager maple]

Thx

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @pastel nexus (current: #2916 - 1)

[pastel nexus]

Ur own virtual machine you can do whatever

[eager maple]

Wtf!

[eager maple]

I know

[low kiln]

@heavy idol hi

[pastel nexus]

Its weird why its no connecting

[heavy idol]

oh wait u here

hiii

[pastel nexus]

Cause I connected to the vpn so many times

This same way

[ripe sleet]

Oh have you run the command multiple times previously

[pastel nexus]

Yes

[ripe sleet]

do

ps aux | grep openvpn

Look for any PID or process ID's besides the first one that appears

[pastel nexus]

Ok

[tight trout]

...this exists

[pastel nexus]

I mean I ran it a lot of times previously, but not on this machine

This one is new

[ripe sleet]

Oh are you using the attackbox?

[pastel nexus]

No

My own

I dont really like using the attack box

[winged nimbus]

is there a program to visualise sysmon logs

i am manually going through the chxild processes

[ripe sleet]

If there is one process running. It'll be the one process besides the initial grep command that you use

[eager maple]

Heya i'm back

[tight trout]

hullo

[eager maple]

Hi

[pastel nexus]

Actually there is a couple error messages

My bad

Linux route command failed because route exists

[ripe sleet]

Example,
it'll look something like this

[eager maple]

We all commit errors,no worries

[eager maple]

Is this hard?

[ripe sleet]

Nah

[pastel nexus]

Generic error (-17) File exists

[eager maple]

Ok thx

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @ripe sleet (current: #1911 - 2)

[ripe sleet]

So you'd kill PID 2086, 2087, and 2088

[tight trout]

hiya fellow parrot user

[ripe sleet]

I just have a parrot vm since it's quick and easy to boot up on virtualbox

[eager maple]

What s that(srry for asking alot of questions)

[tight trout]

its an OS

[ripe sleet]

Parrot OS is another pentesting distribution OS

[eager maple]

Merci

[tight trout]

Parrot Security Edition is another pentesting desitro

I use Parrot Home Edition as a daily driver

[ripe sleet]

I know pentestbox exists too

[pastel nexus]

I see

[ripe sleet]

I think LetsDefend on linkedin had an image of the different pentest distros

[pastel nexus]

I have a bunch of then open

Them*

[ripe sleet]

Do this command:

kill -9 [PID]

[swift geyser]

Hey everyone! 👋
I’m seriously considering a career shift into IT and specifically cybersecurity. I’ve been exploring platforms like Codecademy and TryHackMe, and I’m planning to dedicate the next three months to learning as much as I can.

Do you think it’s realistically possible to land an entry-level IT or cybersecurity job after about three months of focused learning through these platforms (assuming I commit daily)?
Any advice or personal experiences would really help! 🙏

Thanks in advance!

[tight trout]

probably not tbh

[ripe sleet]

Isn't the running joke in cyber that there's no entry level jobs

[tight trout]

entry level IT maybe

[pastel nexus]

It says kill: illegal pid: [PID]

[tight trout]

more or less lol

[eager maple]

Good choice

[ripe sleet]

Did you insert the PID that you had into it

[pastel nexus]

Id say give at least 18 months

[ripe sleet]

The [PID] is a placeholder value

[pastel nexus]

Yes

[ripe sleet]

For example in this image, you would do kill -9 2086

I think pkill exists too

[brisk ore]

gave it a try, it does seem very straight forward but I'm struggling to get the reverse shell PHP to communicate with nmap

[ripe sleet]

You might have to sudo it too

[pastel nexus]

Damn I replaced the 9 with the pid smh

[ripe sleet]

Happens to best of us 🙂

[rapid merlin]

netcat not nmap

[brisk ore]

ah yeah

[rapid merlin]

i am having issues too cant bypass filter

if i do bypass it, file doesnt execute LMAO

[pastel nexus]

Failed to parse argument

[rapid merlin]

maybe.... lets try uploading html payload with php code in it ???

[brisk ore]

Yeah I'm trying to obfuscate it with %00.jpg or some shit

that results in it uploading but nothing executes

[rapid merlin]

same

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings/master/Upload Insecure Files/Images/file-upload-mindmap.png

[ripe sleet]

Would you be able to type the command that you were inputting in chat?

[brisk ore]

I just shutdown the attackbox

but fuck it I'm going back in

[rapid merlin]

dont give up lol

i will try uplaoding html with php in it

[pastel nexus]

Sudo kill -9 33260 [PID]

[eager maple]

Quick question everyone
How do i hack people s wifi
For educationnal purpose btw
Just need the codes😏
Trust me
I ain t doin something bad to my neighbors
I swear

[ripe sleet]

get rid of the [PID]

it should be

sudo kill -9 33260

Assuming that is the PID listed

[pastel nexus]

it says no such process

[brisk ore]

was gonna go back to it in the morning lol

but eh may as well see it out

[rapid merlin]

@cloud quiver is more exprienced at hacking wifi. maybe he can help you

[rapid merlin]

yyeee lets try

[eager maple]

Merci

[ripe sleet]

Okay, when you type

ps aux | grep openvpn

In the 2nd column it shows the Process id's
What PID's do you see?

[eager maple]

He ain t annoying me now

[ripe sleet]

The one's that are from root and don't say grep openvpn

[rapid merlin]

is he having trouble with openvpn??

[ripe sleet]

Yes

[rapid merlin]

let me send a github link to troubleshooter script

[ripe sleet]

Bet

[rapid merlin]

https://github.com/tryhackme/openvpn-troubleshooting

this one

it works

[brisk ore]

tried %00.html still no dice

[rapid merlin]

cant upload direct html?

maybe be capture with burp, edit extension to .php ?

[rapid merlin]

raw html did get uploaded..... but couldnt exec shell command lol

[brisk ore]

I tried file.php.gif

it uploaded but no reverse shell

[rapid merlin]

it doesnt get executed

[brisk ore]

yeah.

[rapid merlin]

Hey

https://tenor.com/view/koshi-torako-shikanoko-my-deer-friend-nokotan-dancing-girl-dance-gif-11199697744157962721

[brisk ore]

hey

[rapid merlin]

Hows you

Hello

[brisk ore]

nice!

[rapid merlin]

payload is bad tho

breaks easily

how are u salty

[tight trout]

hiya salty

[rapid merlin]

sorry we just doing ctf :>

[rapid merlin]

Heyyy

:3

[tight trout]

[rapid merlin]

Some weirdo was hitting on me in another discord

https://tenor.com/view/cute-fight-genshin-impact-keqing-gif-25980255

[tight trout]

😭 eeeeewwwwwww

[rapid merlin]

You shoulda heard what he said.

I sent you the tea

[ripe sleet]

I have a question about something. What do you think the operational expenses of running something like PicoCtf is?

[brisk ore]

Yeah I'm throwing in the towel for tonight, no matter what payload or obfuscation technique I use the server just won't run the PHP

it's just interpreting it as plaintext through the techniques I tried using

[rapid merlin]

try changing php to php5 maybe it would work XD

[brisk ore]

😭

[umbral bay]

👋

[rapid merlin]

Hey Tim

[rapid merlin]

did it work ?

finished the ctf XD

[brisk ore]

nah I've thrown in the towel for now

[rapid merlin]

i see

[brisk ore]

php5 resulted in the same plaintext output

[rapid merlin]

learned something new today to bypass fileextension filters

[brisk ore]

probably something wrong with how I was trying to upload it

[rapid merlin]

not for me... i got reverse shell

show ur payload

dm it

dont send it here

u will get warned

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/parrot-party-gif-22113017

@tight trout you got nothing on me, bitch, all of those change colors lol

[tight trout]

i have a long way to go

[boreal scarab]

Lemme just..... I'll be here awhile

[celest dirge]

https://tenor.com/view/dead-chat-dead-walter-white-gif-21769045

[boreal scarab]

Damn

I cant post all my parrots

Lemme get the good ones out

[tight trout]

[boreal scarab]

[tight trout]

this is a personal fave

[boreal scarab]

[celest dirge]

https://tenor.com/view/caseoh-flashbang-renza-gif-3499959455427823758

[soft furnace]

I think I need to spend more time on THM

[tight trout]

since i started being active on the discord, i've like barely touched THM

[soft furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/excited-i'm-so-excited-so-excited-yay-happy-gif-16375819648008939887

[rapid merlin]

thats a lot

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/it-fucken-wimdy-its-fucking-gif-24928261

[rapid merlin]

[tight trout]

https://tenor.com/view/strong-wind-goldendoodles-viralhog-tough-wind-fur-being-blown-away-gif-12127039028470545220

[mossy river]

That topic is restricted to the advanced channels unfortunately.

[winged nimbus]

💀

[winged nimbus]

what are the advanced channels?

[sharp citrus]

Discord: What Are the Advanced Channels?

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Jun 5, 2025, 12:59 AM

[winged nimbus]

thanks

4 levels away from it rip

[soft furnace]

Whut, r u kiddin me rn? I thought I hadn't done enough

[winged nimbus]

i have only really done challenges that are attached to my paths

oh i an top 5% now cool

[winged nimbus]

because i don't know which rooms i know that i have the skills for

[brisk ore]

Oh 6 levels away from it. Not too far off then I suppose

[soft furnace]

Oh, but I'm the opposite. I only focus on challenges and rarely touch the learning path.

[winged nimbus]

that could prob be a future feature for challenges
summary of what tools and skills you need to do the challenge before you open it

[brisk ore]

I'm gonna sign off for the night.

But I'll leave you all with this. If you're ever feeling down, just remember you didn't get stuck on a easy reverse shell CTF for an hour because you accidentally put the vulnerable system's IP into the PHP script instead of the attackbox

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/lick-gif-15840537734980151180

[vivid lark]

no idea what that means

[winged nimbus]

gn

[soft furnace]

@sick lance i have OSCP, how can i verify to get this role?

[vivid lark]

but gn

[brisk ore]

Basically instead of making the vulnerable machine remote its shell into the attackbox.

I essentially tried to make it remote... into itself

and I didn't even realise it 😭

[winged nimbus]

i need 10700 xp, so i am a bit less than half way there

[twin ridge]

Gave 1 Rep to kenils142. (current: #616 - 10)

[vivid lark]

loopdaloop

[brisk ore]

Anyway gn everyone 👋

[tight trout]

gn!

[rapid merlin]

how bad would it be to use a giant antenna on a shitty wifi adapter with monitor mode

[knotty valve]

1. what's the rating of the antenna?
2. what's the gain of the adapter

Cause if the gain on the adapter is small, then you're going to lose attenuation

Id generally recommend an Alfa AC1900 or TP Link AX1800 if you want to use big antennas for adapters

[rapid merlin]

im kinda confused because the stock antenna is 2dbi so what would the gain of the adapter be?

[boreal scarab]

#1191145750478991400

[knotty valve]

Gain is controlled by the adapter and not antenna

[boreal scarab]

We have a channel for that!

[knotty valve]

Ohhhh

[boreal scarab]

And Ninja/James is our local expert here!

[rapid merlin]

where would i look

[knotty valve]

If you need high gain (so wide range and low loss) I'd recommend going Alfa or the TP link I suggested

[rapid merlin]

Ok im using this cheap shitty one

https://www.amazon.com/Network-AWUS036ACS-Wide-Coverage-Dual-Band-High-Sensitivity/dp/B0752CTSGD

[knotty valve]

If it's only within a small radius, most standard adapter's do fije

[rapid merlin]

https://www.l-com.com/wireless-antenna-900-mhz-8dbi-omni-directional-antenna and this is plugged into it xD

[knotty valve]

Should be fine if it's not trying to RX over large distances

It is Line of Sight so you need to be in mostly direct visibility of the transmitters

[rapid merlin]

ah

[knotty valve]

My wireless comms knowledge finally coming in use outside of work 🤣

[rapid merlin]

this what it says on the atenna link

[knotty valve]

Oh I'm stupid

It's refraction and not LOS

Should be fine but it'll receive more loss by default

The adapter should compensate the gain per receiver

But if you're trying to do long range you'll need a decent adapter to have high gain

[marble scroll]

i am a little confused on the difference between bandwidth and throughput because they have similar definitions. from what iv searched bandwidth is supposed to be the maximum throughput(rate of data transfer) a network can support right??

[empty ember]

guys i figured out how to do syscalls in javascript and make them exec onload in html 😄

[rapid merlin]

i just learning so i dont know much about wireless communicatiojn i did the wifi hacking room and was learning a bit about the antennas while looking to buy a wifi adapter with monitor mode and my dad gave me one he used for surveying to try but i assume since it is a cheap adapter the antenna would be held back from its potential

[knotty valve]

Yes

[worn swan]

Need help guys

[knotty valve]

Throughput is the amount going through a network, bandwidth is the maximum possible throughput

[tight trout]

whats up?

[empty ember]

here's an example

[knotty valve]

If he's got one for surveying it should be relatively high gain

So you should be fine

[worn swan]

I installed kali in phone, mounted to sd card, then facing problem in running kex,gui

[empty ember]

that's what they said about using hidemyass remember then bam lulzsec arrested lol

[marble scroll]

ok

[worn swan]

Rest,terminal working properly

[knotty valve]

There's a chance that the gain may be a bit shit, but this isn't defence this is more just technical works/details

[worn swan]

Pls help

[knotty valve]

We use parabolic dishes at work so we get a boost in receiving gain

[empty ember]

I don't think ima go out of scope today said no hacker ever

[knotty valve]

Lmfaoo

[worn swan]

Help help help

[steady pewter]

Hello everyone.

[empty ember]

oh hey look curl -I 😦

[steady pewter]

Ohh...looks like I came at a bad time.

[knotty valve]

Curl has nothing to do with wireless comms stacks

[empty ember]

u right but what if u had commview

[knotty valve]

Doesn't matter, it's software level and not hardware level

[marble scroll]

this server is pretty active today

[empty ember]

isn't it all just hosted via an application tho

[knotty valve]

Wireless comms?

It's all hardware for the most part

[empty ember]

ooooowwww look a printer

loads pret

[knotty valve]

Printers don't have anything to do with this either 😅

[empty ember]

heh

how do i open powershell from my browser asking for a friend

[knotty valve]

Also Preston, if you want when I get home i should still have some notes on wireless comms if you want them

[tight trout]

mornin!

[rapid merlin]

the antenna is from surveying but the adapter isnt typed it wrong. so when the adapter controls the gain its only limited on how good the antenna is?

[rapid merlin]

yes please

[knotty valve]

Yeah, the antenna can also limit the output/input gain, but the one you sent seems to be alright and shouldn't impact it too much outside of refraction loss which can't be stopped

[knotty valve]

Will do then

[empty ember]

iw reg set B0
iwconfig wlan0 txpower <NmW|NdBm|off|auto>
# txpower is 30 (generally)
# txpower is depends your country, please googling
iwconfig

I needed more power

[knotty valve]

This is fine for most people

Most people don't need high gain, long range, comms

[rapid merlin]

thanks for the help

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @knotty valve (current: #107 - 77)

[empty ember]

I wrote a decent wireless pentesting sheet i don't know if i ever published it or not

[knotty valve]

No probs

Anyway gotta get back to work

Later all

[empty ember]

start --work -h

ima go do some more rooms bbl

[ripe sleet]

Where do you what your total current point count is on THM's website?

[tight trout]

wut

[ripe sleet]

Like the points for the different ranks?

[upper knoll]

It’s under your profile (the bar)

[tight trout]

am i tripping

[winged nimbus]

dashboard or profile

[rapid merlin]

one thing is strange i realize the antenna is for 900mhz yet it still works to pick up 2.4 and 5ghz in aircrack and gemini is telling me that it will be inefficient at capturing a handshake yet somehow its still better at finding networks than the stock antenna like wut

gemini told me it is quite unexpected and very interesting!

[wanton imp]

I got a PT1 voucher in recent giveaway, does it have 2 attempts or only one and is it proctor based ?

[rapid merlin]

Im so brain dead rn

[vivid lark]

keep going

dont let them talk to you out of your dreams

[ripe sleet]

It was in the dashboard

[vagrant shale]

hello world

[tight trout]

hullo

[soft furnace]

xD

[austere verge]

What is the crosshair

What does that mean

[cloud quiver]

It should include a retake 🙂
#pt1 message

[cloud quiver]

Number of points that you have in total

[ripe sleet]

So the rooms in a given path, how many points do they give?

[rapid merlin]

Depends on questions

In ctf I get 30 Points for each question

But in rooms it's little different

( my assumptions)

[austere verge]

When should u try doing ctfs I feel like I could do an easy one by now

Like how much should you know

[ripe sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/idol-hololive-suisei-goodnight-hoshimachisuisei-gif-327282831030542501

[frozen charm]

Morning Morning /\

[rapid merlin]

Depends on room, but if don't like being blocked, I would say finish Jr Pen Testing path

[rapid merlin]

Morning

[steel aspen]

What's everyone up to?

[rapid merlin]

Finding which bus to catch to work

Unusall time, no buses around on route

Hbu

[steel aspen]

Probably the one that goes to the bus stop closest 😎

[rapid merlin]

Always lol

That's why I am using bus

Else I would go by my car