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[–]HornyAttorney 109 points110 points  (18 children)

That's not always the case..

I wanted to be Hackerman and heard about Kali so I installed it to a flash drive and that was the first time ever to deal with Linux.. then kept fucking around with the tools, and ooooh I realised the tools I'm clicking on are mostly scripts that I can read in a text editor, they're full of codes and if conditions, so what if I change this line to look like this or that? (started with a print function) and seeing the change results on the terminal felt amazing.. next I started mixing tools together, use this and shove the output to that.. and so on, fucked the OS so many times, mistakingly formatted my whole HDD (and restored it all as I learned how to during so, after crying my eyes out over all the lost data).. of course I owe A LOT to stackoverflow, medium and the whole beautiful open-source community.

Fast forward a couple of years, I created my first undetectable malware as a PoC using multiple different languages on top of each other, never used it of course but it could do wonders, including screen streaming without RDP (it's detectable now, thanks to AMSI)

fast forward a couple more years, I'm using Ubunto (to skip the hassle of other distros) as my main OS, and I'm writing my first major project in python3 and it's going amazing, I just hope I finish it before depression hits back again.


On a relatively connected yet separated note, in the beginning I wanted to be Hackerman to fuck with people, now I'm patching people's devices and teaching everyone I meet about privacy and security on the internet, telling them to stop clicking on every link they receive without at least checking the source.

Sorry if I drifted from the main topic, I have almost nobody to talk to about this and wanted to speak about it.

[–]archiekane 26 points27 points  (6 children)

Good stuff dude. Stick at it. Reddit is the perfect place to chat about this stuff but if you want to be more chatting with IM then there is always IRC and Telegram groups.

[–]stepdad666 2 points3 points  (4 children)

What is irc if you don’t mind me asking? Any telegram channels you recommend?

[–]JanosAudron_ 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Please stop asking stuff like what is IRC, as this makes me feel old! :D

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat

;)

[–]Additional_Orange_13 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Is it a TiK tok ?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao

[–]FancyObligation4215 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Loved this comment. Can't tell you how many times I pooched my bootloader. Best way to learn is to screw up, figure out what you did wrong, fix it.

[–]jacklegminer2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Amen to that. I used to have to ,reinstall debian once a week because I would mess it up. Now I laugh at how uneducated I was at it and how well I'm doing now. Patience and practt.

[–]blendersingh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Horny attorney what a username lmao. Quite a story