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pine peak
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johnny shpuld i switch my dreams

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From cyber sec to artist

river garden
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looks interesting / good

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but its going to be tough to make a comic in this style

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just takes too much time

pine peak
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But it would look cool

river garden
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I would imagine at least

pine peak
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1 page is like few days

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If i dont do drugs

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If i get high then its like a week or more

river garden
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I mean berserk / new one punch man is similar

night peak
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Rukia

fervent cove
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yeah berserk is highly detailed

pine peak
pine peak
river garden
night peak
river garden
fervent cove
pine peak
fervent cove
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like horror esque

river garden
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I just mean he was a workaholic

fervent cove
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ik im kidding lmao

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he loved doing it tho

pine peak
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someone donate me money for weed 1 marker and few beers

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Plz

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And a sketch book

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And thm premium…

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and a new charger for thinkpad

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I ate the cable

river garden
pine peak
fervent cove
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weeds too expensive

pine peak
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I was working 12 h a day

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and had school problems

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i went drunk to school and got 2 A’s

river garden
pine peak
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šŸ˜ŽšŸ˜ŽšŸ˜ŽšŸ˜ŽšŸ˜Ž

fervent cove
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then why are u poor

pine peak
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Bro these hackers DOING anything

river garden
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I swear if your family doesnt allow you to see a psychologist / psychiatrist I'm going to sue them

pine peak
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I said hack anything not EVERYTHING

austere verge
pine peak
austere verge
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yay..

pine peak
river garden
river garden
pine peak
fervent cove
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my gf is ai

austere verge
rose creek
pine peak
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Plus i got A in school

river garden
blissful current
fervent cove
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uhm

pine peak
pine peak
austere verge
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should prolly change the pfp

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to what tho

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idk

river garden
pine peak
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I wanna get a lip piercing so BAD

river garden
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at the very minimum

river garden
pine peak
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Horse is heroin

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At least here

fervent cove
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no one laces weed lmao

pine peak
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im free from benzos tho

rose creek
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you need help brother

pine peak
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so its stronger

rose creek
pine peak
fervent cove
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im in the US

pine peak
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im from Europe

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šŸ†

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yummyyyy

rose creek
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bad place to be a hacker

pine peak
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Johnny

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Wanna see a picture i took

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On my job

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Sorry

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J*b

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TRIGGER WARNING

river garden
pine peak
bleak quartz
pine peak
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ignore my work clothes plz

river garden
pine peak
pine peak
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should i dir my hair

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or should i get a piercing

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I dont have money for both

river garden
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lip piercing as a dude has high cringe potential

pine peak
dawn wren
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Is Echo broken it doesnt seem to load up correctly

rose creek
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100% just keep going your getting beter this takes a bit to get 100% and your never 100% but learning

bleak quartz
pine peak
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Im actually

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a octopus

river garden
pine peak
river garden
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also if you are an octopus dont get a lip piercing

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also you dont have hair to dye

pine peak
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Im mutated octopus

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I drank the green stuff from tmnt

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ninja turtles

loud marlin
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each octopus hand have own brain =/

pine peak
molten tartan
twin ridgeBOT
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Gave +1 Rep to @rose creek (current: #2091 - 2)

pine peak
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im that smart

loud marlin
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no

pine peak
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Dang it

rose creek
pine peak
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@clanker

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johnny

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::(:((

lament meteor
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maybe make a checklist of things you try in order for any CTF - that way you can basically have a cheat sheet that reminds you of the different steps, attacks, tools, etc

twin ridgeBOT
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Gave +1 Rep to @lament meteor (current: #3182 - 1)

pine peak
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They are always looking

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Anyway

fervent cove
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i love job applications that ask for my resume then proceed to have multiple pages asking of everything thats already on my resume and require that i fill it out

shut hawk
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automation ā„¢

river garden
rose creek
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jack how does it feel to be as big shot as you are

river garden
pine rover
rose creek
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0xf how is that not big

river garden
rose creek
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ok how many boxs did you finsh

river garden
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there is a huge variety in how skilled some1 is at a rank

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e.g. same nr points in challenges means much more than in walkthroughs

river garden
rose creek
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how the hell did you get to top 1%

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thats where i want to be one day

fervent cove
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top 1% is prtty easy

blissful current
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yes

rose creek
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how do i show mine

blissful current
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go on profile , take screenshot

river garden
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I think I'm sleep deprived

blissful current
river garden
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I feel pretty weird and uncomfortable rn

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probably in combination with being sick

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think I'll go to bed soon

pine peak
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No

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њ

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N

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O

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no skosmanaa

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OLalalap

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Plz

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MY HANDS ARE WET

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i canty yoe

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Type

river garden
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youll get muted

pine peak
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šŸ™

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Johnny

blissful current
pine peak
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I have a important meeting tomorrow

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Wish me luck

river garden
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I will

blissful current
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today and yesterday i had to go for classes in college to teach
with my main job's work too
and here i am (was) watching anime and its now past 2AM instead of sleeping

river garden
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jeepers

blissful current
rose creek
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ouch but it works i guess

loud marlin
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205 gb backup =/

river garden
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jeeses

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christ

rose creek
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lol sorry

blissful current
rose creek
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flash bang out

blissful current
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good thing my brightness was on low

rose creek
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i am learning to be pentester not a photo editer

blissful current
blissful current
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aight i'mma head out to sleep i think ....or atleast try to sleep lol

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unless u find me lurking around ...again AMNekoLurk

rose creek
blissful current
rose creek
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lol

zinc aspen
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HI

rose creek
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hi

sand trench
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test

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noice that thingy applied

river garden
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what did you write?

lament meteor
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does anyone run safari while completing rooms on THM?

long lotus
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hi guys

gusty inlet
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Anyone wanna have fun on a box in VC in a few?

sand trench
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maybe not the most fun thingy to watch

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but it is important to shadow

loud orbit
sand trench
austere verge
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I feel miserable

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Sigh

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I need a hug

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Can anyone fly over and give me a hug

river garden
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get some distraction

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do some thm

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play some video games

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meet with people irl

austere verge
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Yea ig so

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I don’t have irl friends tho

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I’m socially awkward

pine peak
night peak
pine peak
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ehere do u see anything emo relatedšŸ’”

night peak
pine peak
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im making a comic on after life

austere verge
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Maybe we’re together in it sigh

river garden
loud orbit
sand trench
loud orbit
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Huh

sand trench
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hahaha

night peak
austere verge
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The afterlife duh

river garden
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should I be concerned?

austere verge
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No

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Nobody is dying

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At least I hope not

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She says she needs to isolate herself to heal

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Wouldn’t explain why tho

river garden
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bro

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I don't think discord relationships are the way to go

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alright

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last chance to say sth or ask sth

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then the shop closes

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shop is closed now

sand trench
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what did the shop sell??

river garden
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please come back again tomorrow

pine peak
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DONT TURN UR BACK ON MEEEE

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I WONT BEBE IGNOREDDDD

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FUCK THAT

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BUY BENZOS

loud orbit
scarlet nimbus
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When you work the night shift at Soc and have nothing to do
(my colleague started reading Sun Tzu's The Art of War, which I brought him)

scarlet nimbus
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You know what, I'm going to study BTL1 while I work

rose creek
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htb shop vs thm shop

strong fjord
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Thm all day

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Was gonna buy something from htb

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Their shipping fee NotLikeThis NotLikeThis

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Almost had a heart attack

rose creek
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really going to go look at the shipping fee hold please

strong fjord
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I wish thm creates more sticker designs coolguy coolguy coolguy

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The quality of their stickers is fantastic

rose creek
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holy shit

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ouch

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lol

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30 pounds or 40 usd

stable pier
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oolala

rose creek
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but htb has so much more i wish thm had more options like htb

cedar leaf
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what time does the leagues reset

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there is a new league too lol

sand trench
strong fjord
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Is it annual

fast inlet
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whats this owlsec channel ya'll are in

sand trench
fast inlet
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server*

strong fjord
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Ohh

rose creek
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any good boxs to help me learn

sturdy sequoia
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Help you learn what?

rose creek
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any thing red

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or making viruses

sand trench
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but if you want easy check out the last few years of advent of cyber

rose creek
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ok

dark wolf
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ok

fervent cove
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ok

rich jackal
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ok

winged nimbus
fervent cove
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trying to get wifi from the next state over?

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what is that

winged nimbus
dark wolf
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attatch it to a helmet

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and walk around with the helmet and laptop

winged nimbus
fervent cove
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lmao

winged nimbus
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just testing it i can see all the routers on my street

fervent cove
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based

dark wolf
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How about wearing that and walking around comicon with a laptop

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nobody would suspect a thing!

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attach the other antenna to the backpack

winged nimbus
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i kinda want to connect it to a rasp pi and set the rasp pi to be a hotspot

dark wolf
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Auckland City Free Wifi

fervent cove
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vigor

dark wolf
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Hiya Kami!!!

fervent cove
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how are u sane

winged nimbus
dark wolf
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How am I sane? I don't know that I am. I don't think anyone has ever called me that

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How are you?

fervent cove
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lmao

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me either

dark wolf
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who needs sanity

fervent cove
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titan level when

dark wolf
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the world is insane

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Im only at 36.5k 13.5k pts to go

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so un 5 weeks

fervent cove
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šŸ™

dark wolf
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I always get highly motivated for near 3 months and then lose interest, but trying to keep this one going

fervent cove
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im never motivated

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i study out of fear of staying dumb

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300points to titan

dark wolf
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Minecraft, Flight Simulator, Medieval Dynasty, VR Poker

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HD Poker .. the poker ones were fun, go to the smaller tables and go all in each hand

winged nimbus
dark wolf
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Destroys a lot of lives

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and the lives of their loved ones

fervent cove
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i wish it was a lot less socially acceptable

dark wolf
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YEah, there are better things that are less socially scceptable go figure

fervent cove
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took me like 4 days to get over my recent hang over

night peak
winged nimbus
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it can't do 5ghz though

dark wolf
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you need takashidump-ng for 5ghz

night peak
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I'm using alias command just for fun

fervent cove
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seems legit

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do u need my social security number too

night peak
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Follow up with: You pay the shipment deposite your money to me so i can ship my laptop to you

dark wolf
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Oh, look, everyone is the first emailer

fervent cove
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ok i spent 75$ on uber eats guys

dark wolf
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OUCH

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Of course i regularly do that with me and my wife lol

fervent cove
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still does hurt everytime but its inevitable

dark wolf
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Yup, it's a good convenience

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If they had that when I was younger, I wouldn't have had to have ditched all those cops.

sand trench
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meep moop time for sleep sloop to the beep boop

dark wolf
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night shadow

grim sparrowBOT
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Done!

sturdy sequoia
twin ridgeBOT
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Gave +1 Rep to @grim sparrow (current: #273 - 34)

sturdy sequoia
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oh haha, it gave rep to the bot

plucky cloud
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im not a hacker

dark wolf
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awesome, i'm not an astronaut

plucky cloud
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im serious

rich jackal
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none of us start as hackers

plucky cloud
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thanks

dark wolf
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very strange way to say hello, but hello to you and welcome

plucky cloud
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what is the definition of a hacker?

sturdy sequoia
plucky cloud
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what makes someone a hacker

sturdy sequoia
dark wolf
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Accessing resources you don't have permission to

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by using vulnerabilities or social engineering or exploits

plucky cloud
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but what does it mean is it to get or access intel you wouldnt have access in the first place, prohibited info?

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prohibited places

sturdy sequoia
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there are also ethical hackers

plucky cloud
twin ridgeBOT
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Gave +1 Rep to @dark wolf (current: #91 - 104)

dark wolf
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and you learn how to defend against it

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and test against your own systems

plucky cloud
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ok makes sense

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I think a lot of people already do that

sturdy sequoia
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i cant tell if youre being serious or sarcastic

cerulean hill
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Let’s say I’ve found that Apple signed configuration data resolving to an AWS server. Wouldn’t this be a serious privacy concern ?

plucky cloud
plucky cloud
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if you don't get it or think its stupid thats on you lol

sturdy sequoia
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this is a serious comment?

fervent cove
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?

plucky cloud
fervent cove
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i think ur getting baited

plucky cloud
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YES

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Why?

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Nobody is being baited JESUS

fervent cove
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ur baiting

sturdy sequoia
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i try giving new people the benefit of the doubt

fervent cove
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how long have u been in this server

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95% white namers are baiters

sturdy sequoia
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ive only been here a couple of weeks. but yer, so many shit posters end up in this channel for some reason

plucky cloud
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can you first explain why so you think im baiting? It would make the conversation easier and you guys are the ones baiting by the way

fervent cove
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i think thm advertises so a lot of ppl come in from other places

sturdy sequoia
fervent cove
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some ppl show up and dont even know what thm is lol

plucky cloud
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already blocked them jesus bait this bait that

night peak
plucky cloud
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we were talking about what hacker meant

night peak
plucky cloud
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they were probably just scrolling on tiktok brain rotting and took this out of context lol

fervent cove
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im on roblox rn not tiktok

plucky cloud
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????

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just say shit without context and don't reply

fervent cove
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i understood it

plucky cloud
fervent cove
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and the message still applies

night peak
fervent cove
plucky cloud
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really annoying

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lol

night peak
plucky cloud
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go back to playing roblox

plucky cloud
fervent cove
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lmaoo

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what

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how bored are u

night peak
plucky cloud
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fuck these kids

night peak
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Angry oscar

plucky cloud
sturdy sequoia
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im sure theyll get banned soon so just ignore

rich jackal
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That escalated quickly

night peak
plucky cloud
winged nimbus
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what is happening in chat

rich jackal
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usual trolly kids

fervent cove
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kyrie forget his meds

plucky cloud
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these kids just annoying

night peak
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You were old man with mindset of kid

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You talking base on your experience

sturdy sequoia
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dont feed the trolls

night peak
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And reflect to other

boreal scarab
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Chilling in VC listening to moooooooosic

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I AM COW

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@winged nimbus

rich jackal
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prototype alien head?

dark wolf
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while wearing your watch

winged nimbus
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@boreal scarab

dark wolf
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and that on the helmet

rich jackal
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I was thinking somehwere a little.. darker.. but that wouldnt get great reception

boreal scarab
boreal scarab
gusty inlet
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Hey guys, I'l be very active for the next 2 weeks as I will be off work. Feel free to ping me directly for moderation related stuff.

winged nimbus
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yoo

fervent cove
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oh no

boreal scarab
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HIDE YOUR ILLEGAL SHIT EVERYONE!

fervent cove
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its over for us

gusty inlet
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WE ARE SO BACK

gusty inlet
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As a matter of fact, I will also be covering the US timezone so no one is safe. kekw

winged nimbus
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lol

fervent cove
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them damn USers

sturdy sequoia
rich jackal
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Wow DKob putting in the OT

gusty inlet
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You know it gets real when I'm not on DnD.

gusty inlet
sturdy sequoia
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Great

night peak
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Yess no more wild animals escape from mental hospital 🄳

gusty inlet
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Also, a hack a long hosted on stage soon. ā„¢

dark wolf
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but he saw it

sturdy sequoia
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As far as the rules go, where's the line drawn for trolling?

gusty inlet
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Touched lots of grass for the past 2 weeks, I think I'm back now.

night peak
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Is meme not allowed here?

gusty inlet
sturdy sequoia
fervent cove
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be careful with sarcasm tho

gusty inlet
fervent cove
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discord themselves will mute you

sturdy sequoia
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Oh no, not me. But it happens all the time

rich jackal
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lol make it obvious if you're being snarky

sturdy sequoia
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I don't want to flood the mods with reports

gusty inlet
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Chat are we cooked

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I had coffee at 3 AM

rich jackal
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lol

gusty inlet
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I forgot it was 3 AM

rich jackal
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I believe that means, YOU'RE cooked good sir.

gusty inlet
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No we are all collectively cooked because it means I'm here all night. kekw

sturdy sequoia
gusty inlet
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Real

hazy flume
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is scrubz still here

gusty inlet
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Comes and goes.

sturdy sequoia
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sorry for being annoying but which countrys laws count for the illegal activity rule?

dark wolf
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like DEAD

winged nimbus
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@dark wolf i think i have an old welding helmet, is that enough

hazy flume
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i love scrubz

winged nimbus
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it looks like this

gusty inlet
dark wolf
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yes, mount the antenna to the top

cloud otter
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what is the red icon lol?

sturdy sequoia
dark wolf
cloud otter
stable pier
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Im cooked

rich jackal
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Yeah, red surprised me, but I cant tell if it was added before or after I hit diamond

fervent cove
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oh shit

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something to grind for

rich jackal
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wont take long šŸ˜›

winged nimbus
fervent cove
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oh wait which one is diamond

gusty inlet
fervent cove
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oh i need to derank on purpose

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nice

dark wolf
rich jackal
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I did many rooms, most of which I hope hsa stuck with me

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but yeah its quiet in here

dark wolf
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sometimes you have to go back and redo a room

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but no points so its like i just wanna do rooms for poitns

rich jackal
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I've gone back and done a couple.. will do them again im sure too

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the Windows Escalation was ouchie, and if im going back to do that, I might as well do Linux too

dark wolf
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the more you practice the quicker you remember when you need it

rich jackal
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Yeah, tbqh I'm finally getting over the "I need to catch up.." because you can't so Im just doing what I can to get my ass hired lol

rich jackal
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That's the main 3 objectives rolled into one really haha

fervent cove
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i akjs from hsh wall thoi

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what

dark wolf
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are you having a stroke?

rich jackal
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Totally

dark wolf
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covfefe

ripe sleet
ripe sleet
dark wolf
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Hiya darkfly!!!

rich jackal
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Hallo Darkfly! I dont know you haha

fervent cove
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why isnt pillaged used as a word in thm

sturdy sequoia
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context?

ripe sleet
ripe sleet
fervent cove
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htb uses it a lot regarding post exploitation for when searching for passwords/sensitive information

ripe sleet
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Oop

fervent cove
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maybe its just a htb thing? idk i thought htb was using it as a generalized penetration testing term but thm never uses it

dark wolf
ripe sleet
ripe sleet
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I've completed:

  • the Crypto module
  • the OSINT model
  • the password cracking module
  • 73% of the network analysis one
  • 71% of the forensics ones
  • 70% of the scanning one
  • 30% of the web app
  • 24% of the log
  • 0% of the exploitation
  • 0% of the wireless
rich jackal
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haha Im doing well just going hardcore on THM

rich jackal
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NCL Gymnasium?

ripe sleet
rich jackal
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Ooo

ripe sleet
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II still don't understand RE challenges

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I have the resources, I guess I'll have to look at them now PekoraTired

fervent cove
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re?

rich jackal
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Remote Execution?

ripe sleet
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Reverse engineering

rich jackal
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damn

fervent cove
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o

ripe sleet
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I do know this, that the first set of challenges that I'll have to crack in the individual game is the password cracking ones

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Cause I let my pc run overnight to crack this one yescrypt hash right. It took 8 hours and 12 minutes to crack it

rich jackal
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Gaddamnb

fervent cove
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if a ctf has a bruteforce thats longer than 10mins i always assume thats not the solution

rich jackal
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Yah, I would let it run, while exploring other options

dark wolf
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yeah on thm but darks doing ncl

fervent cove
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ah ye im not really sure what ncl entails

dark wolf
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National Cyber League

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Live competition, for people that can clear every room on here lol

grizzled sky
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sup peeps;

fervent cove
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oof sounds rough

rich jackal
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Sup Vuilet

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err Violet

fervent cove
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i mean long bruteforces kinda seem silly though anyways to some extent

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at somepoint it just seems like people are racing on who's computer is faster lol

grizzled sky
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i was originally going to work on homelab stuff today but lost the energy to work on it so instead just doing a thm room about elk siem;

dark wolf
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i mean, you can change the list you use to brute it

fervent cove
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but that kinda only happens to a certain level

dark wolf
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if you can try the right things first or in a different order you could solve it quicker

rich jackal
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If there's a like like rockyou or something that is "the goto" list then I would try to time it with that one

dark wolf
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sometimes you will be quicker, but not always

rich jackal
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just to be a dick, so that it does work eventually

dark wolf
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or reverse rockyou

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im just saying there are quicker ways than how fast a cpu is

fervent cove
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im not entirely disagreeing

dark wolf
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what if you use wuwugoogoogaagaapasswords.txt

grizzled sky
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iirc doesn't password cracking use gpu usually?;

fervent cove
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my computer is a laptop with 4gb of ram

dark wolf
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depends on how you have it configured

grizzled sky
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i suppose anything could run on a cpu theoretically though;

dark wolf
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iif you dont have the gpu drivers in your vm it cant

fervent cove
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and u can specically ask john to not

dark wolf
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but i ran wsl with gpu drivers for local llm

fervent cove
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im p sure

dark wolf
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yeah, you should have that option kami

grizzled sky
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adding a gpu to a vm nowadays is at least worth the investment of time if you are doing serious cracking;

rich jackal
dark wolf
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but there are other ways of cracking the yescrypt quicker with pw lists

fervent cove
rich jackal
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I forgot I went a lil overboard on my laptop

grizzled sky
fervent cove
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im just waiting for mine to die on its own and ill replace it

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cba to throw 1-2k away

grizzled sky
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using my 3070gpu it works fine;

rich jackal
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I got it just before the tarrifs and shit so im stoked

grizzled sky
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though i also just use api if its free use;

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a lot of api is free if you are only using it a small amount;

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one of my future homelab projects is getting the api for claude set up so i have a local vibe coder to experiment with;

dark wolf
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i have i9-13900k 64GB RAM 4070Ti

grizzled sky
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not that i would use it for anything serious, more just for testing and seeing what it can do;

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same thing with setting up a local web automation software to experiment with locally hosted automation tools;

dark wolf
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Z790Extreme MB

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It's a BEAST

grizzled sky
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i want to play around with seeing how well it can be used for helping to automate pentesting;

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if i can set up a framework that can automate web testing, it might give me another tool to use for trial and error heavy tasks in ctfs while i experiment with more targeted attacks or defenses;

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would be huge if i can set up some siem automations too;

dark wolf
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use python requests module

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and code it in python exactly how you want

grizzled sky
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oh i would if i were doing production;

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at that point i would just do everything cli level with python or bash;

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this is more for environments like ctfs where time is of the essence;

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in those cases bruteforcing can be a better toolset for automation, and llms can potentially help with that process;

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but that's all my hypothesis, i still have to create it to actually try out testing it and seeing how it plays vs just finding premade automation scripts or else making my own for production level;

dark wolf
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well you could write the iterations of things to try in python and multithread it

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that is for speed

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it will hammer the @#$@#$ out of it faster than anything

grizzled sky
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its same reason i want to experiment with mcps, its less about thinking llms are going to replace good code, and more about how well it works for amateurs and in low stake situations;

dark wolf
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what your doing is good though

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you have to learn how to use llm and ai these days

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to say relevant

grizzled sky
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for me its mostly just for a personal project goal more than anything;

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i want to create all the aspects of llm assistants like perplexity but locally hosted;

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and then use that for automation with notes;

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specifically for creating consistent journal logs so i can create blog posts for my blog i am making;

rich jackal
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I wonder if I can learn python or C++ making an llm.. totally beyond my brain currently but not impossible..

grizzled sky
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help myself with making log keeping simpler so i don't have to journal myself in order to write about what homelab projects and other projects i am doing at any point;

grizzled sky
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freecodecamp has been releasing some tutorials that are on my to learn list;

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same with mcp and playing with apis more in depth and seeing how hackable those are;

rich jackal
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I'm just starting to figure out how .. expansive the field really is.

grizzled sky
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if mcp has similar vulnerabilities to apis, and a lot of vibe coders are creating mcps that include api details without them properly setting up .env files, i could see that being a future security problem as normies get in on mcp automation;

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my suspicion from what i have seen is they would since they usually are just layers overtop api that obfuscate away the api layer, but i have to actually try it and look at how most people tend to make them vs people making them incorrectly to know if that could become a vulnerability for a lot of aspiring vibecoders;

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but yeah all of that is a lot of stuff i need to first set up to get to that point and my energy levels are low lately;

rich jackal
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I get that, mine was low for a week or so.. but my doggo fkd up my arms so I wasnt in the best of places.

grizzled sky
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so still at the part of actually setting up the pieces to selfhost an llm/automation assistant at each stage (text to speach, speech to text, the llm itself, api accesses, mcp layers etc etc) before i know enough to even start to test those and possibly make some blog posts reporting what i find from experimenting;

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on the plus side when its all set up i will at least have a much easier time if i can use llm records as a way to create easy documentation by taking voice recorder notes of what i am doing and then using an llm to create notes i can build a blog post out of;

open cairn
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Hi everyone! I’m considering participating in CyberPatriot, but I don’t have any prior experience in cybersecurity. Do you think it would still be a valuable learning experience for someone like me?

rich jackal
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lol

grizzled sky
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baby steps, if you don't have ANY experience do cyber101 at the least;

open cairn
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ohhh

grizzled sky
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a ctf is a harsh environment to start out in;

rich jackal
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I have no idea what CyberPatriot is, but it sounds not beginner friendly?

ripe sleet
grizzled sky
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its like trying out tetris for the first time by going to the world speed runner series;

ripe sleet
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Also the prompt told you to use rockyou

open cairn
grizzled sky
open cairn
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ooooo

grizzled sky
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if you are starting from scratch, this is a good guide on where to begin;

open cairn
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thank you so much!

grizzled sky
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the biggest thing is cyber is not entry level;

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learn the contents of comptia A+ and either the ccna or network+ before you dive into cyber;

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understand what computers are and what networks are before you try to break into them or protect them;

open cairn
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oh alright!

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i was looking at this "networking basics" certification offered by cisco

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it looked quite interesting

grizzled sky
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cisco does the ccna;

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so that's step 2;

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step 1 you want to look at professor messer and the comptia a+;

open cairn
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ohh

night peak
open cairn
grizzled sky
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best way to start imo? take apart a computer and identify the different parts in it;

open cairn
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ohhhhh

grizzled sky
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once you can take a desktop computer apart yourself and build it, you will have a good understanding of each part of a computer and what it does;

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you can do the same thing learning software by learning linux enough to know the pieces of an operating system;

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or doing that with windows or macos, the main thing is just knowing how the os works in depth and especially file systems;

grizzled sky
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while you're at it i would even watch the history of computer science, its free on youtube;

open cairn
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yeess okay

grizzled sky
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great introduction into the history of why computers are the way they are including the internet, arpanet, etc;

dark wolf
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I'm so glad I grew up before the Internet and watched it all grow

rich jackal
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It's just now starting to get beyond me, so im diving back into learning

dark wolf
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Although the history of ARPANet and Internet go back to the 80's and 70's

open cairn
twin ridgeBOT
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Gave +1 Rep to @grizzled sky (current: #313 - 27)

dark wolf
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it wasn't really in full swing till the mid 90's

grizzled sky
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these three tutorials probably will teach you at least enough to start to ask the big questions before you get into the fine details where hacking lies;

dark wolf
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and even then it wasn't even widely adopted

grizzled sky
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all of it is high school level so very approachable;

dark wolf
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Internet History from Vigor lol

open cairn
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im more leaning towards going into incident response

night peak
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Won't that be a bit overwhelming for him? kinda a lot haha

dark wolf
grizzled sky
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the best way to learn is hands on and work will teach you that;

open cairn
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ohh

grizzled sky
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i spent about 10 years helping solve real world problems. mostly helping tech illiterate and seniors with their every day problems;

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learning how to solve a problem even the person having it doesn't understand is a great learning experience;

open cairn
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ooooo

grizzled sky
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it forces you to identify what the problems could be, then test to process of eliminate what it could be;

open cairn
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hmmm

grizzled sky
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once you can do that and learn how to use searching (or search engine+llms nowadays) , you will have a problem solving skillset and be in a good place to learn how to hack or how to defend;

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since you want to go into forensics, that's especially important, its all about analysis to identify the root cause;

grizzled sky
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when you are in the the real world, you often just know something is wrong, with little to go on and a lot that could have caused it. narrowing the attack down enough to identify it is what makes you valuable;

open cairn
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agreeeed

grizzled sky
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and yes, expect about 50% of the time its hardware issue or simply a reboot issue;

open cairn
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ohhh

grizzled sky
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even at professional level, that will still be a thing;

open cairn
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fr??

grizzled sky
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never underestimate how little people will learn to shut up and reboot;

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too many network problems were simply about unplugging and plugging in the modem;

grizzled sky
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at least in my experience working with people with next to no tech experience;

open cairn
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oh

grizzled sky
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and people with limited knowledge of tech are often at manager levels;

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even nowadays;

open cairn
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dangggg

grizzled sky
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so yeah consider yourself a digital equivalent of a plumber;

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you are there cause something went wrong and someone heard a bang or something; isn't working the way it should;

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it could be sabatoge by a sophisticated hacker;

open cairn
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scary

grizzled sky
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it could just be a cat chewing someone's cable;

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and you won't know until you remove all the most likely posibilities first;

night peak
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haha I guess he forget everything already

open cairn
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This helps a ton!! Thanks guys šŸ™‚

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:D*

dark wolf
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Awesome We like helping people

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WE think everyone should be a hacker

grizzled sky
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np, its an exciting field with a lot of really interesting stuff regardless of if you decide to do it as a career or as a hobby;

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everyone is going to have trouble with wifi at some point;

grizzled sky
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its the same way even if you aren't a plumber knowing what a plunger is will save you a lot of pain;

dark wolf
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everyone needs to access wifi at some point šŸ˜›

tall vine
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gracias

grizzled sky
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or knowing how to cook mac and cheese;

dark wolf
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hacking gives you more access lol (to legal wifi)

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learning hacking teaches you how to protect yourself and you can spread the word to protect people

grizzled sky
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its only going to get more dangerous as automation increases in danger;

tall vine
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that's a part

dark wolf
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or maybe you like reverse engineering so you reverse engineer hashcat and make it faster and call it macandcheesecat

grizzled sky
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its worth mentioning hacking is a mindset and toolset, not necessarily computers alone;

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if you can take apart a speaker and fix it yourself, thats hacking too;

dark wolf
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or make free calls on a pay phone

tall vine
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u should be know how to increase ur vision into cybersec, it better than 'how to hack neighbor wifi' kekw

grizzled sky
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the key to me is just learning to ask good questions;

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watching mythbusters was how i first got intersted in hacking;

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and to me its a great introduction into hacking at its core: taking a simple question and finding scientific, objective ways to measure and test the assumption so you can falsify it;

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plus you get to watch people blow s**t up;

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win win;

dark wolf
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APC UPS have a vuln where you can overheat the battery and it will catch fire

sinful moon
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years old news

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unless there’s another lol

dark wolf
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Yeah the old one

sinful moon
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Besides it’s only models with SmartConnect and I believe it has to be exposed to the interent which you’d already be doing something wrong there

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well local network can be a concern too, but yeah nothing ever really came of it as catasophic as their POC video looked

naive stone
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Hi,
Can i get some advice regarding this entire course. I'm really interested in this and I just got over with Linux Fundamentals 1. So, as you can tell I just started not a long ago.
Any advice regarding how to learn the course. I mean what do y'all use?
I see that there is the videos and also the text. I usually read the text, try using the commands in my computer (I installed linux because of that cuz it sounds interesting), and take notes.
Any other resources that might help too?
I appreaciate any advice. Thanks in advance

sinful moon
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nevermind I’m silly and I forgot that SmartConnect is centralized with APC’s freaking cloud system

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If you want to learn Linux, just use Linux honestly

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that sorta is the best way to learn, you’ll just run into plenty of things you have to figure out and unlike Windows searches for issues, there’s always solutions in Linux searches

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I can’t give much advise beyond that, I started with Linux as my full time OS in 2007 and have used it since. But beyond just my normal use, I like messing around with OSes so just intuitively learned tons on my own fiddling around

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lol one Linux protip I can throw out. !! is short for ā€œthe previous commandā€ so when you forget sudo on something, you just do sudo !! ezpz. Painful to me since people don’t always pick that up

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same thing with flags, just forgot one flag like -r for recursive? !! -r and done

grizzled sky
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for some people, just using linux will work best, but its worth knowing that for some people having more structured learning can be important so its good to share walkthroughs to ensure they have options;

sinful moon
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Yeah one thing I did as a challenge in the summer of 2008 was tty only Linux, no GUI just (then) screen for ā€œwindow managementā€. Obvs I use tmux now but that was a great experience. But also I was in high school and had time, and Internet and (then) Instant Messaging was much more accessable to terminal only back then

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I did have literally everything I needed at the time though and it was wonderful and taught me plenty

grizzled sky
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yeah i think one of the problems i see with a lot of vet linux users is they don't really remember how they learned it so they assume that they just started using it without really remembering the friends or communities or docs they read that taught them;

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its not to say for some people all they need is just hands on for sure, but its worth considering since for many it can feel overwhelming since they might not know where to start;

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imagine if someone asked you how to use a microwave that somehow never heard of a microwave before and the response was: just use it and eventually it will make sense;

sinful moon
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I know a majority of my learning was just searching when I had a question really. But I took an odd trajectory to Ubuntu minimal installs before learning about 2008 era Arch so… Arch Wiki yeap sure helped

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I’ll just say Arch Wiki is a huge help even if you don’t use Arch, just top notch documentation

grizzled sky
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yeah i think its all about people being self aware of different learning styles;

sinful moon
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Helps for sure to be curious about how Linux all fits together as well, it’s a very modular and customizable OS.

grizzled sky
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for the longest time, there was this assumption that some people are simply incapable of learning programming. but like math, it became more obvious over time that the way programming was taught was simply only suited for 1 style of learner, and when it was adapted into other ways like programming train sets or scratch coding as a way to visualize the concepts, the people who previously didn't understand programming showed a huge boost in the odds they would get it;

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to this day i have came across many a bad math teacher that gets mad that some students don't "just read the textbook and it will all make sense";

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and bad not in a moral sense just in terms of effectiveness of their teaching method of course;

sinful moon
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I’ve heard that ā€œlearning stylesā€ themselves are somewhat of a myth these days as well since most people really need multiple ā€œstylesā€ to succeed but yes there’s truth in that

grizzled sky
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i think both things can be true for sure;

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each learning style is itself a skill you can build;

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but not everyone is a master at every learning style, and many have more experience with specific kinds of learning styles but not with others;

sinful moon
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either way, I still think the best way to learn Linux is just literally to try to daily drive it

grizzled sky
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its actually one of the huge reasons autism diagnosis is rising as a replacement for older terms like learning disorders;

sinful moon
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mhmm

sinful moon
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Just Linux doesn’t have to be an abstract concept if you’re using it often, same goes for all OSes. Personally I try to use every OS I can get my hands on

grizzled sky
sinful moon
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Honestly only OS/2 was the only one I wasn’t easily able to adapt to without more RTFM than I was prepared for lol… that one is not practical to daily drive nor does it have much relevance these days though

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OS/2 is just weird because they went overboard with ā€œobject oriented everythingā€ lol

grizzled sky
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oh also anyone who thinks hitler was ok in their discord profile is probably better off taking a history lesson first imo;

sinful moon
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At least in the WARP era, eComStation and ArcaOS are more intuitive only because they kinda hide a lot of that power behind more modern UIs

grizzled sky
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not going to call anyone specific out, they know which person i am talking about;

sinful moon
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But I’m getting into obscure subjects lol. OSes and learning about them are just a passion of mine

wary ocean
grizzled sky
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this applies to anyone that historically illiterate;

sturdy sequoia
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well shit, i dont look at profiles. hopefully ive already blocked them

grizzled sky
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for what its worth, i would have the same opinion if someone were out here saying stalin was aok on their profile too;

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either way reported them so now its up to discord mods;

sinful moon
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Yeah I had to correct someone on the other side of the political spectrum about that, no Stalin was not great, had to show them the Wikipedia page for the Holodomor as proof

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Not to mention that was only one facit of Soviet history but anyways, whole off topic bit there lol

frozen gull
sinful moon
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Now that individual is p great, and he pops up here from time to time

frozen gull
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stalin was a jew

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apparentl;y

wary ocean
# frozen gull apparentl;y

So was Hitler, apparently his grandma was a Jew. At least that's what Google said a few years back when I was curious

frozen gull
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waow

sturdy sequoia
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we really dont need to have this discussion

sinful moon
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lol nothing will be gained from this conversation either way

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I just like computing and security personally c:

frozen gull
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women are non existent in this field

grizzled sky
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honestly i don't want to get into basic high school level world history, go watch crash course on youtube if you want a more educated person explaining that era of history or any other era;

frozen gull
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havent met a single one

frozen gull
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the real history isnt what we study

wary ocean
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Oversimplified is amazing

sinful moon
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Categorically not true with myself, and then my female co-worker is our Senior Network Architect

long lotus
grizzled sky
wary ocean
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Or history books

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Go to the source itself

grizzled sky
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no such thing;

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there are books written at the time;

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but history books is redundant, any book was written at the time isn't automatically historic;

frozen gull
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like lowkey

grizzled sky
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history is the web between the first hand sources;

wary ocean
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I meant wrote about that time

frozen gull
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churchill , gandhi quite a few leaders are glorified

wary ocean
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Read what the teacher would tell you

frozen gull
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if u dive into history

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its worse than diddy

grizzled sky
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that's kinda my point;

frozen gull
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saame with japan

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they were pure evil in ww2

sturdy sequoia
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Even mother Theresa

frozen gull
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yepp

sinful moon
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Obviously, you need to actually dig into the actual sources as Violet is saying and form a more nuanced view than surface level

frozen gull
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the things we read is a facade

grizzled sky
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you don't have to have a masters in history to know that hitler and stalin were not, in fact, aok. that's not a political statement that's objectively verifiable by first hand sources;

grizzled sky
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go read mein kampf;

sinful moon
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again idk if much is being gained by entertaining this lol

frozen gull
sinful moon
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just do neat computer stuff instead, spin up your home lab

grizzled sky
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exactly, history is stupid;

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everyone is different levels of evil by today standards anyway;

frozen gull
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i think hitler was exaggurating himself

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wayy to much

sinful moon
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I have a fully fledged PowerEdge T430 server running Proxmox as my home lab

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rip VMware lol

sturdy sequoia
frozen gull
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he had a wife is what makes it crazier

sinful moon
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idk if you all have messed with proper servers but the lights out management boards they have are wild

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Dell has iDRAC, HPE has iLO and etc

grizzled sky
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for me i am mostly playing with mcp and seeing if i can find ways to explore vulnerabilities in the protocol itself;

sinful moon
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They’re fully fledged ARM machines which can provide remote terminal support, BIOS management, loading disc images and more even while the server is offline

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Just heard about the first malacious MCP instance out there today

grizzled sky
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my assumption is that its similar vulnerabilities to api more broadly, but i want to actually test my assumption directly;

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plus i want to go out and look into if there are common mistakes vibe coders make setting up their infastructure;

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and if so what ways to avoid those mistakes;

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beyond, you know, the mistake of vibe coding as production, obviously;

sinful moon
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Yep great goals, just wish I was more excited about AI BS but I do keep tabs on how things are progressing despite my views

grizzled sky
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yeah for me i try to be ballanced on it;

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its a new tech, and i don't give a shit about copyright law in 2025;

wary ocean
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I've been meaning to get back into bug bounties in hope the smaller sites are vibe coded

sinful moon
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lol yep more and more common unfortunately

grizzled sky
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at this point disney has butcherd ip law that i only care about it to follow ethical reasons;

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but i do think that llms probably are able to have legitimate uses like any tech;

wary ocean
grizzled sky
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that at least i don't disagree with the tech bros;

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the difference being i don't put on rose tinted glasses either;

sinful moon
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I do vastly but I have what I think is healthy skepticism about misuse about a new technology

grizzled sky
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i look at it like any tech that is still in development, and assume its insecure until i see how it can be hardened;

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yeah for me the line is when people start saying you are bad for even touching ai;

wary ocean
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I like breaking shit so when new stuff comes out I try and break it to hell and back

sinful moon
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Not to say I haven’t used a bit of AI, but wow people blow it out of proportion, I just enjoy all the very funny ways to break the guardrails

grizzled sky
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there's extremes on both sides i disagree with when it comes to the debates over the tech, for me i don't care as much which side ethically speaking is in the right, i don't believe tech has intrinsic morality;

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like how even nuclear weapons could destroy an asteroid for instance;

wary ocean
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Ai is a tool not a crutch so like compiling data sources is great. Making a whole website without looking at the code, not so great

sinful moon
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I’m not so much hung up on the ethics, although yes it’s not cool that AI is slamming every small open source project with so much traffic they have to put measures in place to stop it, but yeah there’s too much to this issue to just ā€œpick a sideā€

grizzled sky
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what the line is between building something truely from scratch is nebulous at best;

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websites by their nature are all built with a lot of prebuilt tech even without llms getting involved;

sinful moon
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Yeah some people who just put text in a prompt and ā€œwow look at this art I madeā€ aren’t really couching the discussion in a healthy place

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yes it can take some skill to do a successful prompt but still

grizzled sky
wary ocean
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Or ppl that can't debug their own problems without asking gpt

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Like yeah you might not know but research it

grizzled sky
wary ocean
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Blindly following what it says is not good

grizzled sky
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before llms, stack overflow devs did the same thing;

sturdy sequoia
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dont ask chatgpt ask google šŸ˜›

grizzled sky
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as it is, every library is prebuilt code;

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so unless you are out here in machine language you probably are using thousands of people's work every day;

wary ocean
sinful moon
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I still love those early vibe coders who did just show off their website to everyone, I wish I had kept those social links because they were halarious

grizzled sky
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also use searx with an llm selfhosted;

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best of both worlds;

sinful moon
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what do you mean my site is massively insecure, what why are weird things happening, I don’t understand, etc etc

grizzled sky
sinful moon
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yeah I’ve been thinking of selfhosting searx just haven’t gotten around to it

grizzled sky
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yeah that's on my to do list as i set up my homelab;

wary ocean
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I love vibe coders cuz it makes getting into dev work easier imo

sinful moon
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Sure, but there’s a huge influx who, heck, haven’t even heard of version control either which is just ouch

grizzled sky
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same with using logseq api as a way to play with building an mcp so i learn more about how they work;

sinful moon
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Nice, I did use Logseq for a while but went back to Obsidian

grizzled sky
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documetation is probably the 1 area i think llms have a lot of merit when used correctly;

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especially log creation;

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that still requires people knowing how to configure it correctly to get its true value though;

sinful moon
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Yeah I used it to make boring corpo speech blurbs for our company website as an odd job I was given lol

grizzled sky
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same with me and creating advertising for evacuation chairs;

sinful moon
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I’m awesome at corpo speech but not for like every single one of our partners

grizzled sky
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to this day, the fact every building 25 floors or higher don't have a proper evac system scares the shit out of me ever living in that kind of building;

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like if i could create 1 global law, its require an evac system for any building 25 floors or higher;

wary ocean
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That's why you have a parachute under your jacket at all times

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But tbh idk if they could do anything to make a evac work other than just use the stairs

sinful moon
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One would hope that would be in fire safety codes and more but yeah I don’t know enough to comment

grizzled sky
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use the stairs is a terrible suggestion for people in wheelchairs though;

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or people who can't walk more broadly;

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or even for people who can walk that pass out on the stairs;

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which happens more than you would think;

sinful moon
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I’d say pulley system down the central shaft of the starcase but whoops Ive just created another elevator lol

grizzled sky
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had to learn a lot about the topic for my last job, its genuinely depressing stuff;

wary ocean
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There's nothing you can really do that high up unless you put a slide through the window down to the sidewalk

grizzled sky
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that's why my job was selling evac chairs;

sinful moon
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Makes sense, I had to branch out to compliance stuff for my current job which is depressing in different ways lol

grizzled sky
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they are the 1 thing proven to work during 9/11 and elsewhere;

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but they aren't a requirement in buildings and most buildings won't invest unless its legally required;

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the solution atm in most cities for people passing out or with disabilities is hope you got to a stairwell, and then hope a firefightter can carry you down 25 flights or more of stairs;

wary ocean
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Well yeah it is cheaper to replace the person and say sorry about that than install something that might not be used

grizzled sky
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and that enough fire fighters are on hand to get everyone before it gets bad;

wary ocean
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Companies don't care about human losses they care about monetary

sinful moon
grizzled sky
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anyway not a sales person for it anymore, just learned first hand how low people put the value of human life at, especially disabled human life;

sinful moon
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It’s okay I worked as a home health care aide so I get you there, especially how little I was paid šŸ™ƒ

grizzled sky
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less than minimum for me, though in fairness we were a startup trying to build a company;

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if we had succeeded in the political campaign to make it mandatory we could have made a good amount of profit while also making the city safer;

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but didn't work out so the company shut down;

wary ocean
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Work in a warehouse if you wanna see how little life and safety is disregarded, literally had forklifts going 20mph hauling 1000s of pounds 😭

wary ocean
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I'm bored

sinful moon
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Although with one of my patients, if I was there, the individual was strapped into their wheelchair and we could navigate steps if needed, just far from desirable

tired wolf
wary ocean
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Not when you had idiots walking in the forklift lane and forklifts not staying in their lane

sinful moon
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You take them backwards and ideally with a very large wheelbase for the back wheels

wary ocean
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We had whole ass tape and everything on the floor and we had ppl think it was the London bridge game and walking right in that line

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There was one time a forklift driver slammed the brakes hauling a Gaylord copper and aluminum heatsinks causing it to literally shoot across the warehouse floor

sinful moon
wary ocean
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The best tip for chemicals is if you don't know what it is, assume it'll kill you and leave

sinful moon
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highly recommended watch if you all enjoyed ā€œModern Marvels: Engineering Disastersā€ on TV back in the day

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or are just a geek for these kinda safety things like I am

sinful moon
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This is one of my ā€œfavoriteā€ videos of theirs, 16 years old so mind you, their 3D rendering came a long way since then:

https://youtu.be/C561PCq5E1g

On December 19, 2007, a runaway chemical reaction during the production of a gasoline additive destroyed T2 Laboratories in Jacksonville, Florida, killing four people and injuring 32 others. The blast, equivalent to about 1400 pounds of TNT, damaged buildings and injured office workers hundreds of feet away.

ā–¶ Play video
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A lot of tips about chemical process hazards and safety have uncanny overlap with concepts in infosec

wary ocean
sinful moon
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That was kind of their whole thing, they investigate major chemical incidents and produced recommendations to resolve the issues in the industry

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again this is for people working in chemical plants and building the equipment, not just like ā€œwhoops I found some chemicalsā€