general

[frosty vapor]

Between those and boxes for practice

[tired wolf]

cybersecurity (and IT as a whole) is a procedural skill i’d say

[west sphinx]

I see

[tired wolf]

cramming in theory without putting it in practice is not going to last in your memory

[west sphinx]

Well my full schedule is usually like this:
I do AutomateTheBoring stuff one chapter and I revise it a little for python knowledge

Then I reread my THM notes, and just quiz my self a tiny bit, then do one room, I watch the video then read myself, then I ask CHATGPYT to summarise it, then I make a .md files and add it to my THM folder which has presecurity folder inside

Then I read my note

And I ask chatgpt then to quiz me

[west sphinx]

Is this bad.. 😭

[ripe sleet]

I don't think it would be bad

[west sphinx]

I see

But does my schedule overall look aight?

[ripe sleet]

I look at the use of AI as like a tool at the end of the day

[ripe sleet]

I mean whatever helps with you is all that matter at the end of the day

[west sphinx]

Yeah, I dont wanna be a script skid tho using ai for coding and stuff

[ripe sleet]

Tbh with you, whoever thinks of you as that can politely piss offf

You do what you gotta do to learn, and if using AI helps in the beginning then so be it

I'm no master coder or anything, but GPT has helped me with a lot of things with the explaining of things and stuff

Once you know the basics, try and like ween off of it to not become over reliant on it if you will

I could be 100% wrong, but that's just what I think

[frosty vapor]

Yeah GPT is awesome, I'm already a guru in powershell but I still use the heck out of it to get me in the ballpark a lot faster

[west sphinx]

How did you guys learn ?

Like cybersecurity

From the start

[frosty vapor]

I'm from the 90's 🤣 so mostly books for me

[proper turtle]

Is ai going to replace cybersecurity speciliasts

???

[frosty vapor]

No, but it can assist with analysis for sure

[proper turtle]

If I just connect it to an mcp server it will

[digital estuary]

[frosty vapor]

And you'd trust it to hold dictatorship over your customers?

lol

[proper turtle]

maybe

if it gets better

[digital estuary]

what was the ponit of asking if ai will replace cybersec specialists if you are gonna counter-argue the answer

[proper turtle]

what like I am still learning but I

hope it doesnt

[frosty vapor]

In a small tight knit environment that might be okay

Managing thousands of customers, not so much

[digital estuary]

ai will probably be used for automating the really boring work

[proper turtle]

yeah

cuz it doesnt have creativity?

[frosty vapor]

I'd be okay with an AI analysis of a packet capture and exec report XD

[digital estuary]

report writing would be lovely i hate that

[proper turtle]

Albania already has an ai presedent lol

[digital estuary]

❓

[proper turtle]

and you trust it to write a report

[chrome condor]

https://tenor.com/view/albania-flag-gif-25053081

[proper turtle]

what bro

maybe not the president but

[chrome condor]

well obv ud analyse the report written by ai and fine tune it the idea is for ai to do boilerplate

[digital estuary]

its so much easier to look over a ai generated report than whatever the hell a full fledged "AI SOC" can mess up

[proper turtle]

hmmm I think your right

I hope ai doesnt take my job

😢😢😢

[digital estuary]

it wont dude just dont think about it

what are you going for?

[proper turtle]

bro like my art teacher

said that he got unemloyed

cuz ai took over digital art

[topaz sedge]

*unemployed

[proper turtle]

yeah

[digital estuary]

does cybersecurity involve making crayon drawings of your happy home

[proper turtle]

nah I am just giving an example

I think I will use ai to organize my homelab

[digital estuary]

yeah but why use the example of AI destroying the art community for a far more technical field

i mean what i said is a bad example but you get the deal idea

[limber yew]

How do I change the certificate name? I still have the alias.

@grim sparrow

[sharp citrus]

TryHackMe's Email

TryHackMe's support email address.

​

[e-mail]

TryHackMe Socials · Oct 4, 2025, 3:36 PM

[digital estuary]

try with them

note that it may take some time

[silver sky]

Photoshop

[limber yew]

thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @silver sky (current: #36 - 296)

[digital estuary]

https://tenor.com/view/memes-goofy-ahh-pictures-gif-11600478794457518235

[chrome condor]

genius

[digital estuary]

[silver sky]

Idk why you think I'm joking

It's the easiest way

You cannot regenerate a certificate with a different name

[marsh lark]

thats a bot lol

[marsh lark]

it is

[limber yew]

nah?

[marsh lark]

TryModerateMe is a bot

[limber yew]

i dont see sory

[marsh lark]

I'm just letting you know lol

[limber yew]

thanks bro

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @marsh lark (current: #29 - 378)

[near hawk]

We can now

[silver sky]

Good to know

[haughty geyser]

Hi

If there is an issue related to room where should I put it in? #site-support or #room-help ?

[silver sky]

Issue as in?

Is it a problem with the room itself like a bug? Or are you stuck?

[haughty geyser]

A bug in the room

[silver sky]

#1333993673381253162

[haughty geyser]

Thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @silver sky (current: #36 - 297)

[silver sky]

You're most welcome!

[haughty geyser]

https://discord.com/channels/521382216299839518/1333993673381253162/threads/1404731973640912968

Someone already posted it

Its the same issue I am facing

[boreal scarab]

https://sherlock-linux.org/en/home-en/

Stumbled across this bad boy. lets test it!

[silver sky]

Then you'll just need to be patient

[sand trench]

what is this word you say?? awa ke???

https://github.com/shadow-absorber/EU-Security-and-Privacy-Guide/blob/main/secure-linux/arch-linux-secure.sh

[loud marlin]

this might reduce the echo and so things

you can still wrap it in things

[sand trench]

well half the echo:s are comments on what the next line does

[loud marlin]

you can still add comments in this. i was just lazy. all the things in between EOF are inserted in variable location and so

[sand trench]

fair

and yeah should probably clean it up

also already found a "bug"

kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=0 makes running mpd not work as it is run using usernamespace

[loud marlin]

i have this file to add aliases in zsh

[sand trench]

eeeew oh-my-zsh

[loud marlin]

and EOF is not in file ofc. is jsust placeholder to know where start and what is end

[sand trench]

slow bloated systtem

[sand trench]

also could you send that as text to shadow in a dm???

[loud marlin]

gib sec

[sand trench]

no rush :P

[blissful frost]

dicipline

[signal widget]

boxes anyone ?

pen testing

[blissful frost]

yo what r u doing i am the real apple

[signal widget]

i cant disclose that but yes i am the real apple

[blissful frost]

ur just an apple juice

avg fan of me

[signal widget]

ty

[thorny fulcrum]

GUYS

[blissful frost]

?

[thorny fulcrum]

The echo robot ai thingy is very cute, can we keep him like that past october?

[thorny fulcrum]

mb

[blissful frost]

why is that?

[thorny fulcrum]

Because usually it reverts back to the normal robot icon, instead of the ghost one

[blissful frost]

robot icon??

i didn't see that

[thorny fulcrum]

Unless I'm tweaking

[silver sky]

All my homies dislike echo

[blissful frost]

why is it a ghost for me

i never saw the robot thingy

too

[thorny fulcrum]

We have beef now btw

[thorny fulcrum]

It used to look different, but then they changed to be the current icon

smh

[silver sky]

That's cool 😎

I like cheese on mine

[thorny fulcrum]

You put cheese on beef?

That's a thing?

[neat kindle]

https://tenor.com/view/talking-maria-tweaking-tweaking-stan-twitter-talking-maria-convulsing-tweaking-gif-952151458042783190

[silver sky]

Yeah man! My cheesy taco rice is to die for!

[neat kindle]

im tweaking

[thorny fulcrum]

Oh, I was imagining cheese on a slice of steak, like pizza but the bread is the steak

[neat kindle]

https://tenor.com/view/rat-aardman-cheese-cementpfp-food-gif-1859268831938666603

[silver sky]

Hmmmm like a chicken parmo. Might have to give it a go

[neat kindle]

CEEESE

[thorny fulcrum]

Googled chicken parmo, it looks too American to be British

[silver sky]

It's inspired by the American dish

[thorny fulcrum]

It won't let me react with a thumbs up emoji

👍

[vapid cave]

Hello guys, am new to try hack me and I wanna buy the subscription of THM with my student ID but idk why it’s not accepting the payment and it’s also not showing any payment options, when I check out it just straight asking for my credit card details idk how else I could purchase the subscription

[silver sky]

That is your payment option

Credit or debit card payment

[worldly pollen]

I have 50

[vapid cave]

It’s not taking debit card

[silver sky]

As in it's not taking your debit card or?

[queen flare]

that is super cool, will almost certainly use it for me

[vapid cave]

But only accepting the credit card and then when I make the payment it says payment declined and all

[silver sky]

Who's your bank?

[vapid cave]

Idk about only mine or something

[vapid cave]

It’s an Indian bank Axis bank

[silver sky]

If I remember correctly there are issues with some Indian banks rejecting the payments

Reach out to support via email, they'll be best to advise

[sharp citrus]

TryHackMe's Email

TryHackMe's support email address.

​

[e-mail]

TryHackMe Socials · Oct 4, 2025, 5:00 PM

[queen flare]

from what i understand it seems interactive too, which is pretty awesome @sand trench

[sand trench]

yuups

might add a guide for how to use it with the yes command to accept all the options when running :P

[vapid cave]

Ooo okay I will today then thanks for helping man

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @silver sky (current: #36 - 298)

[silver sky]

You are most welcome!

[queen flare]

that's a great idea
may i also suggest a brief description of what the script does, so less tech savvy people can more or less understand what it does?

[sand trench]

and @loud marlin thanks for your suggestion script is now updated with that too

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @loud marlin (current: #23 - 445)

[loud marlin]

wooohooo... i had same issue. kidna

[sand trench]

wait....

script now errors

./secure-linux/arch-linux-secure.sh: line 188: warning: here-document at line 17 delimited by end-of-file (wanted END') ./secure-linux/arch-linux-secure.sh: line 189: syntax error: unexpected end of file from if' command on line 14

[loud marlin]

hmm

oe EOF

not END

[sand trench]

but EOF broke things

[loud marlin]

hmm

[sand trench]

./secure-linux/arch-linux-secure.sh: line 191: syntax error: unexpected end of file from `if' command on line 14

[loud marlin]

my part work sok as test

[sand trench]

figured it out

can't have indents for EOF

[loud marlin]

oh

[onyx lance]

guys can i ask you something as i'm newnie here?

[jovial cobalt]

hey facing trouble with a room task anyone ready to help?

[loud marlin]

just ask

[stuck dragon]

[loud marlin]

w8. what you say ? like have line tab as indent or ?

or jsut EOF thing

[onyx lance]

Hey, someone on Discord sent me a link to a free cybersecurity course (https://safehackingpro.com.free). I didn’t open it fully, but is it safe or should I avoid?

[digital estuary]

https://tenor.com/view/gumbus-gumbus-cat-gumbus-babby-old-baby-freaky-gif-4497378494140279825

[sand trench]

no line tabs or spaces before EOF in the file

then it works

[digital estuary]

funniest fucking url ive seen in my life
i have no clue honestly

[loud marlin]

like this

[sand trench]

yeah like that basically

[silver sky]

It's a scam site.

[onyx lance]

Yeah it does look super fake! I wasn’t sure so I asked here first

[loud marlin]

hmn. this is not root lvl but for me works

w8. ill try ident

[grim monolith]

Virustotal URL check can scan that

[onyx lance]

Got it bro, I’ll avoid random requests. Kinda disappointing, but lesson learned

[loud marlin]

no issue for me

even as root

[silver sky]

It won't tell you if it's a scam or not so that's not a fix all answer

[grim monolith]

Yep, but I'm almost positive there'll be red flags

That's a first

And then there's us telling him so here's the second

[silver sky]

Always be cautious of someone you don't know offering services or anything for free with a dodgy link.

The quick way I found out that was a scam was:

1. No web presence outside the link (Google came up with basically no results)

2. The amount of ads on the page is a joke

3. Offering money or crypto recovery for a fee is an assured red flag.

[silver sky]

See nothing whatsoever

[sand trench]

well shadow is fixing the script in rapid succession so we might be on differing versions

should be completely fixed now

fixed it so it is overwriting the files if they already exists too now

[onyx lance]

I don’t know why, but I’m starting to feel a bit insecure about these things 😅 still learning to be more cautious

[loud marlin]

oh yea. if you have << or >> is added. if < > then is overwritten

[grim monolith]

Ahh damn

[onyx lance]

by the way thanx for explaining it

[silver sky]

You are most welcome!

[onyx lance]

[sand trench]

hahaha almost... only the >> needs to be changed to > or the thingy fails

[silver sky]

I have now left a comment but there's actually nothing malicious on the page.

Might get picked up as Phishing/Scam at some point by some vendors.

[loud marlin]

yea... but EOF is nice thing to go with if more text need to be added

[onyx lance]

Appreciated bro!!!!

[grim monolith]

Thank you, at least now there's a trace on VT as well of the site being off

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @silver sky (current: #36 - 299)

[loud marlin]

@sand trench i also learn of using sed -i when i need delete block of text that starts with smth and ends with smth and so, while leave rest of file intact

[celest dirge]

Sorry, I found this on LinkedIn and thought "I have a perfect meme for this"

[sand trench]

neovim goes :%s/blargh/ello/g

[silver sky]

my bro I'm a level 1000 analyst because I upload everything to VT

[grim monolith]

I'm purple!

[loud marlin]

aslo have this for grub

[sand trench]

any dance of the dead fans here??? their music discography is on 85% off right now on bandcamp

[analog sinew]

What do you do when you cant get access to your PC to study cybersecurity? Watch videos? Read? On cybersecurity.

[sand trench]

good old sherlock the program to find things

[sand trench]

use a tablet or smartphone

[digital estuary]

[analog sinew]

Can't start attackbox on phone 🤔

[silver sky]

Did they say use Attackbox? 👀

[digital estuary]

[tidal panther]

wsp guys

[silent wraith]

Helloz

Hru all

[tidal panther]

good

[silent wraith]

Glad to hear

[sand trench]

fair point but there is a lot more to cybersecurity then just tryhackme and doing ctfs

[worn turret]

Cyber is broad af

[loud marlin]

some need make CTF but only to use phones to do it 🙂

[sand trench]

would have thunkt that already exists

[halcyon dune]

really in cyber you might just end up writing scripts and implementing systems

then governance and other stuff

[digital estuary]

😱

[halcyon dune]

you might never touching anything related to hacking

[chilly veldt]

semi finals start in 20 minutes

[halcyon dune]

I'm intern now in cyber sec role in governance in the banking industry

talking from my own experience

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cute-kitty-yes-nodding-gif-17803998

[digital estuary]

https://tenor.com/view/starwhocouldfly-rigby-cat-rigby-silly-cat-stupid-cat-gif-15385366713072989704

[chilly veldt]

governance is not real cybersec

it's just paperwork

GRC is just glorified paper pushers

[austere verge]

dam

why would u wanna do that

just for the money?

[chilly veldt]

some people like papers

and standards

[austere verge]

i hate papers

and standards

[sand trench]

Ray hates usb everyone
go inform ray that usb is good

[austere verge]

who is usb 😭

[sand trench]

the rectangular thingy you insert into computers

[austere verge]

universal serial bus

[sand trench]

yeah it is a standard

[chilly veldt]

did you know that they named it usb cause usa was taken?

[sand trench]

pffffft

[chilly veldt]

hackceler8 semi finals start in 13 minutes

[sand trench]

you in it???

because think your group is doing said ctf

[loud marlin]

hence if usa iwas so great then why they make usb and usbc

🙂

[sand trench]

usbc is us because

[chilly veldt]

yuuuuuup, sitting in mexico playing (not in the booth though)

we are the next team to play

[loud marlin]

tacoooos

[chilly veldt]

first match of the day and first semi finals, winner goes on to finals

[digital estuary]

[signal widget]

haha managed to do this on my own XD

feels sick XD

took me like 15 mins XD

gg

yh ama need a hint

[digital estuary]

[stuck dragon]

[signal widget]

Yep im stuck XD

[quick blaze]

[digital estuary]

[signal widget]

https://tenor.com/view/cüneytçakır-cuneyt-cakir-cuneyt-cüneyt-var-gif-16294129

root@sharp citrus:~# find /var/log -name "authentication.log"
/var/log/authentication.log
root@sharp citrus:~# cd /var/log
root@sharp citrus:/var/log# cat authentication.log
the cat is sleeping under the table
thm-flag01-script
root@sharp citrus:/var/log#

hahah

got you

mr sleepy kitten

[analog sinew]

Thats what um asking what else can we do outside being on PC. Looking for ideas lol

[signal widget]

thanks echo XD

man i suck XD

[digital estuary]

[rose creek]

hey now no we are not

[quick blaze]

[signal widget]

i still got it wrong XD

f

s

[rose creek]

not true

[dark wolf]

Echo keeps trying to tell me how to use linux

[digital estuary]

"cat is sleeping under the table"

[rose creek]

echo is trash i think

[signal widget]

ow no

thats embrassing

[digital estuary]

[signal widget]

im tied

XD

[digital estuary]

https://tenor.com/view/starwhocouldfly-rigby-cat-rigby-silly-cat-stupid-cat-gif-15385366713072989704

[signal widget]

ok time for a break XD

Sui

[dark wolf]

Good Work!

[dark wolf]

Nice job!

[rose creek]

good job

[signal widget]

Ty ty

❤️

only took me 50 mins to complete XD

[rose creek]

good job

[quick blaze]

[loud marlin]

@sand trench while using vpn, do you edit resolved.conf for dns and so things? or you leave it as it is?

[sand trench]

tons of reading and watching videos on topics

[sand trench]

naah let mullvad vpn handle all dns stuffs

[wind mesa]

hi

[loud marlin]

fair yea

[rose creek]

hi

[wind mesa]

Whats up guys

[rose creek]

the sky

[quick blaze]

[wind mesa]

Im thinking rn

Should i learn hacking?

How is it?

[boreal scarab]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1013636347019411506/1366388469064273930/togif.gif

[digital estuary]

[wind mesa]

Ive never really hacked, only programmed in some languages

What are yall thoughts?

[rose creek]

i cant tell you to take jump because i am not you

[onyx dirge]

Blah blah blah everyone here just talks big but doesn't know nothing

[rose creek]

fine then how much do you know

[digital estuary]

[onyx dirge]

I dunno nothing but this is what I'm going thru everyday day u guys say stuff and talk big yet u can't even do nothing

[digital estuary]

this guy literally gave you the answer

[rose creek]

right we are not hackers for hire

[digital estuary]

we can't just do a "super big secret operation" do you really think every hacking server will just go "oh yeah sure let me help you"
counter-attacking is illegal and falls under vigilantism & computer misuse

[onyx dirge]

I literally paid cyber security to help and they could not because of laws

It's hell tho , imagine 5 years

And now they starting with me

Do u think its a good idea if I try going onto the dark web and asking for help or will I get scammed?

[digital estuary]

your best friend right now is the police

[digital estuary]

thats even worse

[rose creek]

the dark web is not a place you just go and walk away from

[onyx dirge]

Oh well I guess the people attacking me are going to have fun, police do nothing

[digital estuary]

youre either gonna bury yourself into a honeypot and deal with the scarier policemen or youre just gonna get scammed by a random soyjak

[steep cloud]

Depends where you go on it

[onyx dirge]

They really enjoy tormenting

[steep cloud]

There's some chill people and some not chill people

[onyx dirge]

They sent laughing emojis to me after breaking into her house

[rose creek]

i know but where he wants to go is not going to end well

[onyx dirge]

Hopefully the policeman will help me then

[steep cloud]

True

I've never gone on the hackers for hire sites

[loud marlin]

90% of that dark web shits are just fake craps.

[steep cloud]

That too

You have to look hard for the actual shady shit

[rose creek]

85% are the 5% scams and the other 10% are good at what they do

[steep cloud]

The hidden links wiki has 90% scams iirc

[onyx dirge]

Its all fake until it happens to you , I never knew this was possible until it came into mu life , it's like living in a movie that I hate

[loud marlin]

friend did make dark/deep web website and put grandmas cooking recipes on it lol

[onyx dirge]

Dark web stuff is fake , ppl just get scammed on there

[rose creek]

good cookies???

[steep cloud]

Wait did he add duck recipes, Theres a site on the dark I use for all my cooking recipies

[loud marlin]

skill issue. if you looking for problems and craps that wyou will find

[onyx dirge]

Thanks man u are helpful

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @loud marlin (current: #23 - 446)

[loud marlin]

there is waaay to much recipes. tbh it start as joke now is full time fun fun fun

[digital estuary]

so you asked if you should look into dark web for cybercriminals, then you say dark web is a scam? i assume you're sarcastic but i genuinely wanna help you

[steep cloud]

I think your friend is where I get my recipies then lmao

[digital estuary]

lawfully, obviously

best you can do is report to authorities with proper evidence

[loud marlin]

can be... is nothing special but more just shitposting of recipes heh

[digital estuary]

cant do much by just saying "so a hacker did..."

[onyx dirge]

I'm scared of using it , I never went on to it before , and dunno how to get hold of a grey hat hacker

[digital estuary]

well if you do get hold of one somehow you're just gonna make your own situation worse

[steep cloud]

Good recipies tho

[digital estuary]

you literally have negatives only, no positives

[onyx dirge]

There's laws to this right

[onyx dirge]

By ending 5 years of torture?

Getting revenge

[loud marlin]

he even make qr code of site and ppl gets taht shock when realise is dark web and he need to explain him self lol

[onyx dirge]

Do I just let this happen to me I guess

[digital estuary]

one scenario - 3 letter agencies blast your door down no knock warranty because you hit a honeypot
second scenario - the hackers you "hired" is a soyjak that will scam you
third scenario - said hacker won't do the job and will try to also blackmail you

[loud marlin]

3 letter agencies are not fun when get visit...

they ahve no sense of humor at all

[rapid gust]

the echo bot is pretty cool

i used it for the first time today

[onyx dirge]

A case was opened for SA for what they did to my friend that was the only time Police got involved, it has been 3 months now and they think the cyber attacks are a joke

[digital estuary]

i saw an arrest on the tv from our own police, dudes were fucking cruel

[digital estuary]

do you have any sort of evidence that points to it not being a joke?

[onyx dirge]

Police won't help , i literally have no clue on what to do

[slow cloud]

Dark web seems to be pretty fake, but there are always sites the public doesn't know about, same goes for the clear net i think

[onyx dirge]

I can send u a screenshot that they sent me of her family sleeping threatening me

They are threatening my dad now

This is my life rn

[steep cloud]

Yeah people dramatize the dark web alot

[loud marlin]

tru tru

[digital estuary]

how about you don't send me that and you instead use that as evidence that the police can look at and actually take action because the police dept. has to take your report because its the law

[steep cloud]

It's only bad if you look for the bad

[digital estuary]

i have no use of screenshots, the police has

[slow cloud]

How about you contact law enforcement, and stop talking about it here since we won't he able to do anything with this

[onyx dirge]

Like I said everything was given to police its been like 3 months now , they send me laughing emojis saying the police can't do nothing

That's why I thought of the dark web thing , but like u said it's more trouble than anything , so I guess just let them do what they wanna do

[loud marlin]

just stay away from dumb shits

[digital estuary]

can you try reporting it again perchance

[rose creek]

i should know

[slow cloud]

Wrong gif

https://tenor.com/view/mario-dance-gif-15275892162652611856

[steep cloud]

Do you have the QR code, im curious if it is the site I'm thinking it is

[onyx dirge]

We report everything, I live in south africa police don't help , what would u do if u were me?

[rose creek]

walk away kid

[digital estuary]

gather every piece of evidence possible, hell, even print it out, report it and give all evidence

[rapid gust]

hahaha south africa you're cooked, my fam is from SA

[onyx dirge]

They probably gonna go for my job next and do their usual stuff , maybe the police will catch them I hope , but yea

[rapid gust]

heard the police do not do much

[onyx dirge]

Yea the police are stupid , they don't even understand what's going on

[rapid gust]

do they live near you i would just show up at their house

[loud marlin]

nah. not rly. i rare go there

[rapid gust]

or completely anon

[onyx dirge]

I have no clue who is doing this , so whose house do I wait by?

[digital estuary]

check if your country has cybersecurityhub, it lets you report cybercrime incidents there iirc, both for individuals and businesses

[rapid gust]

yeah i didnt know the context

[steep cloud]

Aw shame

[rapid gust]

do they send you emails or what

[quaint merlin]

Hey guys, I am working on the offensive pentesting pathway and for some reason, I cannot connect to hackpark. I started on that room a few months ago and just came back to it and I cannot get it to connect. I know that the VPN is working because I just completed the skynet room. Anyone have any suggestions?

[ripe sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/mococo-beam-fuwawa-fuwamoco-dog-cat-gif-13118058127322463848

[onyx dirge]

We sent mails to cybercrime.org which is our thing , we called security companies we its really hard

[digital estuary]

jesus christ your country needs a fucking revamp

[onyx dirge]

They use her email to mail me

Somehow they found my email address probably from my phone number or something

[rapid gust]

ohhhh that's weird i was gonna say just pull the ip headera and mxserver

[digital estuary]

to not take any action is sick, hope the situation genuinely gets better, but please try reporting with more evidence, they're supposed to take your report regardless

[rapid gust]

what's your pfp @digital estuary

[onyx dirge]

I dunno anything about hacking , they did a sim swap with me today I think. Alot of my contacts have been getting weird messages

[digital estuary]

transistor

[onyx dirge]

I wish I knew what that meant

[lavish rune]

telecomminucation thing?

[digital estuary]

refer to wikipedia's bipolar junction transistor for additonal information

[rapid gust]

nerrrddddd(one of the highest compliments i can give)

[lavish rune]

oh the thing in gpus and memory

[digital estuary]

✅

partially

[onyx dirge]

I dont even know why we are being attacked like this tbh , maybe that's why the police can't understand it u know, so I guess the attackers will keep doing this until they are satisfied I guess hopefully when they take everything from me next they will be full

[digital estuary]

i mean its everywhere

[lavish rune]

yeah

electric current management

[rapid gust]

worth a shot @hasty sand

[lavish rune]

we're actually taking it in my highschool, basics ofw telecomminucation components

[lavish rune]

xd

[digital estuary]

quick couple of questions;
Are they just threatening you?
Are they trying to blackmail/racketeer you?
Is there any reason for them to do this big of an attack? Are you a high value target?

[rapid gust]

Evolved is wanted for crimes against humanity

[onyx dirge]

K 5 ago years she had a Facebook page that had 1 million followers , they were planning a nationwide strike , that account was hacked then everything started , they never ask for money , however she moved like 3 times they always find her address and phone numbers , then the threats start and when we don't listen to demand and stuff they broke into her house

Remember this is south africa

[rapid gust]

Oooo sounds like nation state support

[analog sinew]

Ok reading this.

[willow frigate]

what keyboards can u guys reommend

[digital estuary]

jesus christ im sorry for what is going on

[lavish rune]

is it just me or when i start getting remotely a little advanced i instantly want to stop, like im heavily protecting my comfort zone, even tho im argueably a fast interpreter for my age

if so is there any advice? it has held me back alot of times in alot of different aspects

[rapid gust]

whenever i get uncomfy or feel stupid i remember that that is where the vast majority of brain growth and development occurs so its almost like going to the gym

[snow copper]

Wdym? If it types, that is all you need

[visual furnace]

hi

[digital estuary]

i have no idea how to approach this, you can ask tomorrow when more people are active, I'd genuinely help but i dont wanna suggest anything currently as im insecure about any suggestion I have

[willow frigate]

yeah but maybe u have good keyboard that u can recommend

[rapid gust]

instead of feeling stupid and incompetent i realize that its all for my benefit takes it from something negative to something incredibly positive for me, makes me want to welcome difficulty more

[lavish rune]

thats such a good way to think of it ngl

thanks alot

[rapid gust]

like when i got to reverse shells i was like oh im just the stupidest person on planet earth

[lavish rune]

is ur name spelled krokod? i wanna know if my russian classes have been working.

[onyx dirge]

Yea the police have been helping for 5 years now lol

[digital estuary]

@onyx dirge you should genuinely try reporting everything one last time, have multiple people testify to the home invasion, privacy invasion, and a bunch of other things

[lavish rune]

are reverse shells hard? or is it overall just a case of its easy if u learn it the correct way

[willow frigate]

kroko

[lavish rune]

ah

[willow frigate]

its the same ^^

[onyx dirge]

They only taking it serious now since the SA as DNA was found and it was messed up , I guess it's my turn , thank u for help I really tried in the end

[lavish rune]

what does it mean?

[digital estuary]

this is very serious and horrifying and I genuinely feel horrible that you're going through this; I hope everything gets better and the police actually take this serious and put in extra work to help 🙏🏼
But my best advice right now is, preserve all evidence, report it, have people testify to the incidents and problems, if its organized crime it can probably be escalated to more serious people

[willow frigate]

nothing its just kroko like a short version of crocodile

[lavish rune]

aha

[rapid gust]

people more advanced will say its like beginner level hacking like a reverse shell and metasploit, for me because I'm new i find them incrediby difficult but with anything it just takes some work, im sure once i get back into the red team rooms in a few months from now it will seem much easier 🙂

krokodilian

[lavish rune]

fair enough, anyhow thanks alot for the advice

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @rapid gust (current: #1579 - 3)

[distant robin]

Can any of you recommend me a linux distro?

[lavish rune]

i have made a not so strict plan to match my school schedule and learning topics between python and cybersecrutiy and a combination of both, wish me luck

[rapid gust]

i run parrot as my daily, ubuntu with a kali vm seems to be a lot of peoples daily's

@distant robin

[onyx dirge]

Thank you , I will be strong , I tried everything i could do u know , so yea I guess that's it

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @digital estuary (current: #128 - 74)

[distant robin]

I got a 2nd SSD for my laptop and want to install it separately as it runs better on its own than in a VM.

[rapid gust]

thats how im running parrot rn i have windows on 1 SSD parrot living on another

[distant robin]

When?

[rapid gust]

they say parrot isn't as stable as distros like ubuntu but parrot has crashed less for me than my ubuntu laptop so idk, also has some built in security tools and anonymity features and i really like their background

[onyx dirge]

It happend on the 13th of August

[digital estuary]

Stay strong, collect evidence, preserve evidence, present it to law enforcement and other agencies that can help with this

[rapid gust]

i have like a little pentesting assistant LLM i built living on my parrot disk i can tell it to pull tools and run commands it integrates locally with my built in parrot tools

[silver sky]

Krocko

[distant robin]

Well earlier on I tried to create a bootable USB using my external SSD which works fine for Ubuntu and Kali but it took me to the bash page instead of options like normally. So yeah I would like a distro with all the tools. For some reason, Kali wouldn't install and gave me an error.

Been fighting this laptop since I got my new ssd installed - first I had to remove secure boot in the BIOS and then remove Bitlocker from Windows. Very annoying.

[distant robin]

Bloody hell, that's not good.

I'm using Rufus to create a bootable disk with my external SSD

[rapid gust]

i reformatted a company device with bitlocker and secure boot it was a pain in the butt, one usb port and when you full wipe the computer it loses drivers that support mousepad/internet functionality, i had to pick between a working mouse, and ethernet connection, and my drive with drivers on it

took like 6 hours fully mousekeys navigating through file system

[distant robin]

Yeah SecureBoot and Bitlocker is a pita

@onyx dirge I like your POES title. That's hilarious

[rapid gust]

try parrot if you're interested! I love my parrot OS

[distant robin]

I have used Parrot on VM and really like it to be honest

[onyx dirge]

U know wht poes means lol

[distant robin]

Oh ja!!!

Jammer maar ek verstaan afrikaans 'n bietjie

[dark frost]

Chatgpt build me a cool template for school Lab report in latex 😄

[onyx dirge]

Nice I understand what u said

Lekker

[distant robin]

Ja I had afrikaans friends who taught me afrikaans and I taught her english for school when I was in my early 20's

[onyx dirge]

U spelt it right atleast

[distant robin]

Ja, lekker man

[dark frost]

I am curently learning to use latex , it is much pretty than word ,

[rapid gust]

Anyone here went to SANS uni?

[dark frost]

Where is Sans uni?

[distant robin]

@rapid gust thank you very much, I will try and find a better parrot security distro. I think the one I downloaded was dodgy although I downloaded directly and there were many options. I chose the iso file?

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @rapid gust (current: #1270 - 4)

[slow cloud]

Its crazy how afrikaans is so close to dutch

[onyx dirge]

Lekker man. U know the mother taal

[slow cloud]

This is something i say on the daily

[rapid gust]

i did mine a while back i think i did the iso, have gpt walk you through it was pretty heplful for guidance/hardening

[distant robin]

Yeah, my parents were in holland for a few months and they said the same thing

[slow cloud]

In dutch

[rapid gust]

i dont remember all the specifics unfortunately

[distant robin]

We're all getting old lol

[rapid gust]

i did like 6 different linux distro installs this month lmao

[rapid gust]

Remote, based out of Bethesda though

[distant robin]

Dutch was the ancestor of Afrikaans, you know?

[slow cloud]

Arch is the best

[slow cloud]

I knowww

Sad reasons tho

[rose creek]

i use arch for hacking

[rapid gust]

how long did it take you to get comfy in arch

[slow cloud]

Still not that comfy

[rapid gust]

im interested in it but people fear monger tf out of it

[slow cloud]

Still building my environment

[rapid gust]

and post cartoons of fat reddit characters using it XD

it has always seemed really cool to me

[slow cloud]

Install it in a vm or something its fun

[rose creek]

i use athena it comes with all the tools like kali

[slow cloud]

Great learning experience

[onyx dirge]

Could I learn how u guys do stuff in 6 months?

[rapid gust]

pv2 is that really you in your profile

[onyx dirge]

How long would it take me?

[rapid gust]

evolved tryhack me taught me way more technical than any job/school

[rose creek]

yes a panda 100%

[rapid gust]

i did like pre security and 101 in a month tryhackme is an incredible resource

[distant robin]

@rapid gust https://parrotsec.org/download/ this one?

[onyx dirge]

Do u know what POES means?

[distant robin]

And what doos means hahahaha

[slow cloud]

Yeah it's a female cat

[onyx dirge]

In Dutch?

[rapid gust]

yes i did live -> home i believe

[slow cloud]

Yep

[rose creek]

@rapid gust how close to mage are you

[onyx dirge]

Where do I start?

[rapid gust]

security gives you more tools but is less stable as a daily i would use security or box for a vm and home for a daily

[onyx dirge]

I will try and help myself maybe

[rapid gust]

how do i check that my friend

[slow cloud]

U should start with learning general IT

[onyx dirge]

Lmao

[slow cloud]

Learn networking

Learn AD

Learn linux

[onyx dirge]

Lol POES is dirty

[rose creek]

dashboard

[rapid gust]

just do their pre-security learning path they take you through good foundations

[slow cloud]

Cybersecurity is not an entry field

[distant robin]

Yeah like saying jou ma's poes

[slow cloud]

2012 called, they want the your mom jokes back

[rapid gust]

im halfway!

[distant robin]

I know it's very rude

[rose creek]

damm me too

[onyx dirge]

So where do I start?

[rapid gust]

i took a month break from tryhackme my work picked up crazy this month @rose creek

[onyx dirge]

Is 6 months enough?

[onyx dirge]

To hack the hackers , I want revenge ngl

[distant robin]

Evolved, I did CompTIA A+ hardware and software, Networking, Server and Security

[rapid gust]

years lol

[rose creek]

had teeth removed yesterday

[rapid gust]

to actually learn how to build exploits, or else you can run scripts and metasploit

[rapid gust]

oooo that sucks i hope you feel better

[rose creek]

thank army loves teeth

[distant robin]

Ouch, I had one of mine pulled about a month or two ago.

[onyx dirge]

That sucks

[onyx dirge]

K I will start here

Thank u

[rapid gust]

not really, geting good in cyber and IT gives you like almost full control over your life

being able to make a great living basically anywhere you want remote

[distant robin]

Amen to that, @rapid gust . Basically I got like 20 years of IT skills - I build my own machines and even install a 2nd SSD into laptop after looking inside to see if I could either get a 2.5" SSD or an NVME M2 ssd. Lucky for me, I could get and install another NVME M2 ssd into this laptop along with my main windows ssd

[rapid gust]

i want to get more into hardware i just need to make more, but going open source on my own network/file share system and modified hardware devices

cant wait that side of IT is so dang cool

[rose creek]

i have been on a pc since i was 3

[gusty inlet]

Yeah well that would get you into some trouble.

[rapid gust]

Pv2 was born on the px

[distant robin]

Yeah it is. Lol Pv2, I've been on PC since I was 5 or 6

[rapid gust]

pc

birthed onto the keyboard

[rose creek]

i love it too

[onyx dirge]

Did u read the whole discussion?

[distant robin]

How old are you now?

[rose creek]

26

[distant robin]

I'm twice your age

[rose creek]

work for the army on the pc side

[distant robin]

Back in my day, it was an IBM Dos machine with a black and green screen

[rapid gust]

valk did u ever play a mmo called age of conan

[slow cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/laughing-lol-haha-so-funny-funny-gif-15155799540154128453

[distant robin]

No

[rapid gust]

rip it was an older mmo i love it

[rose creek]

mmm i have always wanted to play with those

[rapid gust]

came out after everquest 2

[distant robin]

I used to play Hexen and Heretic, man those graphics are horrible now

[rose creek]

omg everquest 2

[slow cloud]

I feel young 22 years young

[rapid gust]

that was the first game i ever played pv2

[distant robin]

BTW I am 46

[rapid gust]

i mustve been like 5 years old

[rose creek]

lol not to old yet

[distant robin]

The games I played when I was 5 or 6 were half-pipe, surfing and something else I can't remember

[rapid gust]

sewer run

[distant robin]

big ass floppy disks

write in the command prompt to start the games from the floppy disks

I learnt about Commodore 64 when I was in primary school - we were given games to play with in computer classes

Jill in the Jungle and Othello were a few of the games

[onyx dirge]

I just created a profile I guess I got 6 months to do this now

[distant robin]

Good luck

[jade goblet]

I see alot of people jumping straight into the Junior Pentester roadmap. Wouldn't it make sense to start with the SOC Analyst roadmap, move to the Security Engineer roadmap, and then do Junior PenTester?

[rapid gust]

i started from the beginning which i highly recommend if you don't have previous experience

i had a few years and still learned A LOT through the pre-security and cyber 101

[rose creek]

i did cyber 101 to get a refresh then now i am on jr

[pulsar oracle]

Hi, does anyone have a moment?

[ripe sleet]

[pulsar oracle]

I am genuinely in need of help.

[ripe sleet]

Is it illegal?

[tough knot]

hi i want to ask where to start learning programming

[jade goblet]

I did Cyber101. My plan is to do all of them. I just thought it made the most sense to go from SOC -> Security Engineer -> Pentester. As this reflects a career progression.

[ripe sleet]

If it is illegal the we can't help you

[tough knot]

hi i want to ask where to start learning programming

[rapid gust]

@ripe sleet soulframe discord i see

[pulsar oracle]

It's to possible to catch a scammer.

[ripe sleet]

Roadmap.sh

[ripe sleet]

Yup

[rapid gust]

a fellow individual of taste and nobility

did u play the early release

[ripe sleet]

I'm in the preludes

[rapid gust]

i was so excited and i thought it was kinda bd 🙁

[tough knot]

thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @ripe sleet (current: #108 - 84)

[ripe sleet]

Fey pact used to be the best pact

Bounties for factions are a bit grindy though

[rapid gust]

i got bored of the combat super fast

[ripe sleet]

The orengalle pact + the bow == kill anything

You use the alternate fire which rains arrows down

And the orengalle 2 for the wolf which pulls aggro

[ripe sleet]

It does yea, but I don't know if it's cause I've played warframe for so long. But it's a good game to just play a video and then play. The bear pact should be cool

Only thing that sucks is to the highest amount of standing you have to go to the top left of the map everytime. Which sucks if you enter a dungeon for a bounty cause you can appear anywhere

[rose creek]

i did not know nmap was so good

[ripe sleet]

So you then have to walk back

[rapid gust]

nmap is crazy

[ripe sleet]

Yea

[rose creek]

i am finshing the nmap room and its so good for info

[ripe sleet]

Especially with the scripts

[rose creek]

using kali is nice to but only on vm bare metal its not the greats

[loud marlin]

there is no need for bare metal kali. in foirst case you do not need so much of it to fo bare metal

if you have spare laptop then ok

[distant robin]

Dang, this Parrot Security OS is driving me nuts. I tried Rufus to create an ISO on my external SSD and it only boots to grub command line. Tried DD with Rufus and it is not bootable.

[rose creek]

anthena os

is what i use for hacking

i use the arch version

[rapid gust]

do u have legacy boot enabled in bios @distant robin

[distant robin]

I don't think this laptop has it. It boots fine with Ubuntu DDE which is weird.

Secure Boot has been disabled

[rapid gust]

i remember having to reinstall grub during my boot

[distant robin]

I have no idea how to use grub

[loud marlin]

do you use f12 or so to interupt book and load parrot

[distant robin]

I disabled my windows SSD so that I could boot into the external ssd

[rapid gust]

i had to remount my root and filesystems and reinstall grub

[distant robin]

Ugh that's a pain

[rapid gust]

i remember doing these steps but i remember them slightly different

[loud marlin]

play with dual boot and two disks is not so smart idea. it can lead to issues

[rapid gust]

really? ive never had any issues with mine

[loud marlin]

it can work fine, until one time it does not

[distant robin]

Lol I have dual-booted before and never had issues

[rapid gust]

i boot into parrot and i can key down and boot into windows via parrot os during startup it was pretty seamless

[loud marlin]

if you have some encryption like luks and so it can be crap. also updates can do problems

[rapid gust]

the magic of technology lol it all works perfect until one day it doesnt XD

[distant robin]

Yup everything falls apart eventually

It's not a biggie for me, I don't have anything stored here - everything's on my desktop

and some files in the cloud anyway

[rapid gust]

yeah dual boot encryption sounds scary

chatgpt held my hand through it all valk

it was like a mama bird and i was the baby bird

[loud marlin]

im full disk LUKS encryption. and as main laptop, no dual boot or any shit like that

kali/parrot is not stable for daily driver

[rapid gust]

this is what i hear a lot

[distant robin]

Yeah that's what I heard too

[rapid gust]

its all good if it blows up in your face its an amazing opportunity to learn

[distant robin]

Hahaha @rapid gust

[loud marlin]

i have spared laptop for kali. it works fine with no issue. then again. daily backup is done

[distant robin]

I remember a few years ago someone recommended Pop OS to me, I tried it for a short time and didn't like it

[rapid gust]

im watching the vid in your bio @loud marlin

[loud marlin]

ah. the great nietzche

[rapid gust]

i love that stuff

[loud marlin]

watch to the end.

[grizzled sky]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KxhlWbmYyCI

[loud marlin]

whne he kill god, things starts to be great

[distant robin]

Lol I am not afraid of LInux

[rose creek]

script kittys are your pay to win fuckers right

[sand trench]

good channel good dude

[grizzled sky]

Not really. Most code script kiddies use foss;

Also everyone uses premade software. Discord is premade software. Knowing how to code is valuable, but effective use of metasploit can be extemely dangerous and its foss;

Hacking is a mindset and goalset, not a type of code monkey;

[loud marlin]

well... you not going to make own discord client for a start

[sand trench]

A hacker embodies a boundless passion and insatiable thirst for understanding the complexities of a system, computers and networks in particular. They revel in the pursuit of knowledge and mastery, constantly seeking new solutions and opportunities for growth. Their drive and innovative spirit inspire and are inspired by the hacker community, where ideas and knowledge are freely shared and valued regardless of their origin.

-- Silk

[loud marlin]

also using openwrt is also premade. so i guess i need make own router os ?

[grizzled sky]

Thats why i think a lot of people are misled by shows like mr robot. The idea that coders are building custom malware is silly;

[sand ingot]

Do you hack accounts here

[loud marlin]

no

[loud marlin]

well... you need to build one to exploit smth

[sturdy sequoia]

morning all. hows thw hackin?

[grizzled sky]

Absolutely at the top level this can happen, but most hackers are using other peoples code. Metasploit for instance;

[grizzled sky]

It helps absolutely. But you dont need to build a car from scratch to use or fix a car;

[vapid lava]

this reminds me of an attack where researchers were targeted via specially crafted POC exploits (spoiler which were actually malware)

[sand ingot]

Hey everyone — can someone answer my question? Thanks, it’s urgent.

[loud marlin]

we do not hack accounts or so things

[sturdy sequoia]

what question

oh

[sand ingot]

Ah oke

Thank you

[grizzled sky]

Also pls never ask to ask;

https://dontasktoask.com/

[loud marlin]

well... most of hackers not use others ppl code. they build it for them self. others ppl use rnd code and get in trouble

[rapid gust]

what happens if i dm you tomato violet\

does my computer explode

[grizzled sky]

Again not true;

[loud marlin]

black hats do dumb shits. if you doing cyber sec then you build own things

[sturdy sequoia]

"hackers" are not a monolith. different people are different

[grizzled sky]

Thats only a very small subset, and only when its useful for their attack. Blackhats are people and people are at all skill levels;

[vapid lava]

it def gives you a better understanding.
you cant secure something you dont understand.

[narrow yew]

Hello kittens

[rapid gust]

hi

[loud marlin]

that's why you learn things

[grizzled sky]

Obviously learning to code is important at top level, but this isnt the 80s anymore. Most people arent programing in c all the software they exploit with. Even just knowing python as a blackhat is the exception nowadays;

[sand trench]

nowadays there are plenty of "hackers" with poor understanding of computers and networks but great understanding of psychology and how locks work

[grizzled sky]

Social engineering is engineering for a reason;

[sturdy sequoia]

not all hackers.....

[grizzled sky]

Hacking is language agnostic;

Its a mindset and goalset not a skillset;

When your mom guilts you to take out the trash on your own, thats social engineering;

[sand trench]

hacking got built up a lot from the phreaking era too

[sturdy sequoia]

its all semantics and not really important

[grizzled sky]

Emotional intelligence is the root of most hacking be it systems or humans;

[rapid gust]

emosint

[grizzled sky]

Most vulnerabilites come from understanding how humans get lazy or make dumb mistakes, or computers made by humans making dumb mistakes;

It can be as silly as dumping a pile of usbs on someones lawn and infesting all of them with a virus;

[narrow yew]

todays challenges were fun

[sand trench]

sadlty the word cracker rarely gets used in the same context as it did back in rfc 1392 era

[narrow yew]

hello she/her

I hope you are well

[grizzled sky]

I love saltines;

[narrow yew]

@grizzled sky Life's ok this fine saturday?

[grizzled sky]

https://tenor.com/view/gandalf-monday-graham-cracker-gif-26065696

[grizzled sky]

Spent my saturday sleeping in;

[sturdy sequoia]

holy shit. TIL what a saltine is

[narrow yew]

I slept 3 hours

[grizzled sky]

Last night had fun trolling sora 2;

[narrow yew]

Sleeping in is not a thing when you have kids

verifyyyy

[sand trench]

no learn what hardtack is

[ripe sleet]

Saltines are the best

[grizzled sky]

Been hillarious seeing the crazy troll videos on sora 2 so far like open ai sam altman robbing stores;

[ripe sleet]

Ever had Christmas crack? It's like a type of toffee

[sand trench]

now learn what a hardtack is was the thingy shadow wanted to type

[sturdy sequoia]

In Australia we call them saladas

[sand trench]

before the kitchen renovation shadow made some every christmas

[ripe sleet]

Yea they're good

My family is really big into Christmas

My mother makes a lot of these cookies, and the by the end we usually have like bags of them sorta.

[sturdy sequoia]

What kind of cookies?

[ripe sleet]

All kinds

[sturdy sequoia]

Oh nice

[ripe sleet]

Peanut Butter, S'mores, Oatmeal Raisin, Italian Cookies, and others

[narrow yew]

we can be friends

i see this

[sand trench]

where are the ginger snaps cookies

[narrow yew]

ginger schnaps

[sturdy sequoia]

Are smores the marshmallow things?

[sand trench]

which is basically gingerbread but crunchy and thinly sliced

[sand trench]

that is not what shadow is refering to but some people like that too

[narrow yew]

That is more fun

I know wha the gingre snaps is also

[ripe sleet]

It's like a chocolate cookie with like smaller marshmallows and shit

[narrow yew]

These are good, so good

[sturdy sequoia]

Now you got me wanting to bake more

[sand trench]

ice chocolate is also nice

[narrow yew]

Super swedish 😄

[sand trench]

want an easy cookie recipe??? it is only 2 ingreidents:
oatmeal
over ripe banana

mix together in a bowl

splash them out on baking paper

put in oven for a bit on a temp shadow can't recall

tada you got cookies

[ripe sleet]

I want to try making pretzels where in the center of it is like cheese and bacon

[sturdy sequoia]

My favourite is the classic chocolate chip cookie

[narrow yew]

I will bake those for christmas

[ripe sleet]

And then if the pretzel idea works I'm gonna experiment with other things

[narrow yew]

but first CTF needs to be solved

[sturdy sequoia]

Food hacking 🙂

[rapid merlin]

Hello

[ripe sleet]

Hello!

[sturdy sequoia]

Hi

[rapid merlin]

I'm new here

[sturdy sequoia]

Welcome

[rapid merlin]

Thanks

What is your level in hacking

[narrow yew]

3

[rapid merlin]

What do U mean by 3

[narrow yew]

My level

[sturdy sequoia]

there arent really levels to hacking

[narrow yew]

well we can make up some

Since it was an open question

I chose 3, seems mediocre enough

[ripe sleet]

Pseudo-intermediate as far as Knowledge I'd say

[rapid merlin]

Yeah I meant are you still beginners

[narrow yew]

Knowlage, quite a lot, skill naa medium

[rapid merlin]

U know web hacking

[narrow yew]

that is what 99% do

[rapid merlin]

Hhhh

[narrow yew]

Web applications is the major thing. Here all script kiddies gather, all nuclei fighters.

[sturdy sequoia]

i know some things about a lot of things and a lot of things about a few things

[rapid merlin]

What bugs could U find

[narrow yew]

I know some also, lets talk about it

[sand trench]

softlock in a game shadow was tasked with testing

[rapid merlin]

[narrow yew]

Shadowly still in sweden?

[sturdy sequoia]

i was using kali when it was still called backtrack

[narrow yew]

before that whoppix

Still have Live-CDs

[rapid merlin]

What is backtrack

[narrow yew]

He jus wrote what it was

You need to keep up

[sturdy sequoia]

thats what kali used to be called

[rapid merlin]

Oh okay

[narrow yew]

And Backtrack was Whoppix

[rapid merlin]

What is do U use now then

[distant robin]

Lol that's interesting how software evolves over time

[rapid merlin]

Yes

[sturdy sequoia]

i use kali now

wireshark used to be called ethereal

[distant robin]

I have been through 10+ windows operating systems. Who remembers Windows 3.0 and 3.1?

[narrow yew]

I use Kali, Ubuntu 22, Remnux, etc

Flare

[narrow yew]

I do

[rapid merlin]

Okay
Is it real that parrot is is better than kali

[narrow yew]

On my 386

[sturdy sequoia]

3.1 was the earliest i used

[narrow yew]

no

Old gang here 😄

Since 3.11 was a long time ago

[sturdy sequoia]

"better" is just personal preference

[rapid merlin]

Really

I use kali

Hhhh

[narrow yew]

What do you think would be better?
Same tools, diffrent GUI.

you will never use all tools

[rapid merlin]

Yes

Do U use hydra

[sturdy sequoia]

sometimes

[rapid merlin]

Okay

So what do you use usually

[sturdy sequoia]

all kinds of stuff. different tools for different purposes

[rapid merlin]

For the passwords cracking

[narrow yew]

So many questions

hydra/john

[sturdy sequoia]

depends on the password. john the ripper and hashcat are good for offline hacking. hydra is pretty good for online attacks. theyre probably the ones i use the most frequently

[narrow yew]

haschat if you have the GFX

[rapid merlin]

You are really more advanced than me

[sturdy sequoia]

we all start somewhere

[narrow yew]

We are probably x3 your age also

[distant robin]

Yeah it says our age when we talk about old operating systems

[narrow yew]

BBS also..

[rapid merlin]

How old are you

[sturdy sequoia]

im in my 40s

[narrow yew]

Same here

[rapid merlin]

Yoo

[distant robin]

I'm 46

[narrow yew]

Valkryine wins, ding ding ding

[distant robin]

🤣

[sturdy sequoia]

the youngest person ive spoken to here is 14, the oldest over 50

[narrow yew]

Im 42

[distant robin]

1985 first IBM Dos machine

[narrow yew]

I think I have a 386 and a 486 in the basement

[sturdy sequoia]

happy 40th dos

[distant robin]

Nintendo game console with game cartridges FTW

[narrow yew]

I had my old 486 cracking with john. When some linux servers did not have shadow files on passwd

Those were the days

[distant robin]

Oh yeah and we didn't have plug n play, it was plug n pray

[sturdy sequoia]

dot matrix printers

[rapid merlin]

I'm 15 🤣🤣🤣

[distant robin]

Hahaha those things were horrible and noisy

[narrow yew]

Bedtime for you soon

[rapid merlin]

🙃

[sturdy sequoia]

good age to begin learning

[rapid merlin]

I begin earlier than that

[sturdy sequoia]

even better

[distant robin]

Yep, as you get older, it gets harder to learn thngs

[rapid merlin]

When I was 11

I started with programming

[sturdy sequoia]

i think i was around 14 when i started getting interested in computers as a hobby

[rapid merlin]

Okay

I want to learn more hacking

How can I?

[sturdy sequoia]

#start-here

[distant robin]

I was 12 or 13 in school when I got interested in computer stuff. In fact, my last year's school exam computer practice, I scored 80%

[sturdy sequoia]

join tryhackme.com and start leanring

[rapid merlin]

It's paid

[sturdy sequoia]

some parts are free others are paid

[rapid merlin]

Yeah like what

[sturdy sequoia]

lots of different things

[rapid merlin]

What is the best free course there

[narrow yew]

login and find all rooms and select free

[distant robin]

No it is not, some are free and some are paid.

[sturdy sequoia]

https://tryhackme.com/resources/blog/free_path

[rapid merlin]

Is all that free?!

[sturdy sequoia]

yer that lists a bunch of free rooms

[bleak quartz]

some are free

[rapid merlin]

Thank you so much 👍

[bleak quartz]

says premium on paid

[bleak quartz]

u can also filter em

[rapid merlin]

How did you learn hacking

[sturdy sequoia]

reading lots, experimenting, talking with other hackers

nowadays there are so many resources online.

[rapid merlin]

[sturdy sequoia]

sites like tryhackme make it so much easier

[rapid merlin]

Yes

[hollow sequoia]

Hello

[sturdy sequoia]

hi

[hollow sequoia]

Suo

Sup

[sturdy sequoia]

not much. just chilling and chatting

u?

[hollow sequoia]

Same

Being a therapist

In call

Where the chat happening

[rapid merlin]

Hello

[frosty abyss]

Guys why do i feel stagnant rn ?

[sturdy sequoia]

depression?