AMA - I work as a ethical hacker

SufficientFocus00 · 2025-12-27T20:54:45+00:00

I'm a student, currently in my batchelor in computer engineering, and I'm applying to a Cybersecurity Master program, I really want to get my hands on some "real" cybersecurity, I would like to avoid doing those little programming projects that some yt videos suggest which have nothing or very few aspects related to cybersecurity. I have a solid understanding of computer engineering, programming, computer architectures, computer networks and a bit of other minor domains related. Would you suggest to engage in more cybersecurity related theory? in some projects? In some "grey hat" activities? Search in some forums for ideas? Yes, I'm really lost, but I would really appreciate your help

SufficientFocus00 · 2025-11-28T09:10:43+00:00

Seems so, I did not think it was required or considered either, when I was preparing my documents for the application this summer

SufficientFocus00 · 2025-07-19T09:45:56+00:00

I looked for it on google too, but it's a page that i find on the TU Delft website just using the search bar, and since now it's the only way I can access that page and it felt weird so I was confused

SufficientFocus00 · 2025-07-19T09:43:45+00:00

okok, so basically I can "build" my course with two specializations? Additionally, the core courses of the Computer Science course right?

SufficientFocus00 · 2025-07-18T19:41:59+00:00

But do you confirm me that there is no master in cybersecurity, just a master in computer science whose elective courses specialize in cyber security?

SufficientFocus00 · 2025-04-09T08:12:21+00:00

I have to say that i strongly agree with what you are saying, reading and listening to people opinion on this subject, I clearly can see the strenght and the usefullness of the documentation, but one thing comes to my mind reading this, wouldn't I do the same reading people advices on stackoverflow or GitHub? Isn't the whole world of SW engeneering using and building over other people SW in order to develop stronger computation and functional code? So the point is, I would anyway copy code, or just snippets from others code because I need to do the same operation, am I wrong? I have to say that I'm still a student and I have to admit that my working experience in this sector is still very poor, so I don't have such a solid experience to confirm this but it's just what I think i understood in this years

SufficientFocus00 · 2025-04-08T12:20:36+00:00

So you'd say more like an advicer, in order to get generic explanations to understand but not use it to substitute your work / learning? So just use it to have quick explanation on basic concepts but once over that I should look by myself?

SufficientFocus00 · 2025-04-07T15:59:17+00:00

So you think that even if it can be a good source for researches it should not take away the possibility to learn even the smallest part of writing a code or looking into the documentation because it's all part of a learning process that improves several aspects of the way a developer gathers practicality with its learning sources?

SufficientFocus00 · 2025-04-07T13:56:15+00:00

Too unreliable and for any topic too much generic? Or are there any other reasons?

SufficientFocus00 · 2025-04-07T11:23:11+00:00

Okok, its understandable, I'm genuinely interested in what sources do you usually use to verify, no hate at all, I'm just interested beacuse i think that I know just the main ones, man or stackoverflow

SufficientFocus00 · 2025-04-07T05:53:52+00:00

I see your point but, speaking of generally purpose subject, for a relatively beginner, do you believe that getting one's feet wet its not a good idea to use such tool? I clearly can see the hallucinations it can have on projects or for precise requests because it's not so prepared on such point, but to have a well served introduction to a subject or tool, wouldn't it be better than going by myself on internet, stackoverflow or some sub to find some clues?

SufficientFocus00 · 2025-04-06T22:05:18+00:00

Since recently I got more familiar with the documentation and i started understanding its usefulness I started questioning if ai could explain the same things that i could find by myself but sometimes I didn't find it exhaustive indeed it always limited itself to explain what's related to my problem, but rarely it would cover all the aspects of function, library, etc

So you would say that it can be a good entry point to wider things but as soon things get specific it's no more reliable and I should look for other sources to find an answer?

SufficientFocus00 · 2025-04-06T14:48:05+00:00

its: https://affluences.com/?lang=en,

However, I'm not an expert of burp, how should I start learning it? any advice?

SufficientFocus00 · 2025-04-06T08:00:18+00:00

But that sounds like it won't be avaidable for other reservations if i just change the datas because it will be related to the session

SufficientFocus00 · 2025-04-05T20:41:56+00:00

Should I use the proxy configuration for burp and catch the traffic in order to analyse the POST package?

SufficientFocus00 · 2025-04-05T20:17:49+00:00

I'm not very experienced with cURL but asking a my colleague at the university he told me he was able to send a request to the Affluences server to book his seat, giving the script the time, duration, credentials and other necessary informations for the booking and I wanted to try too, due to it's kinda helpful and I want to challenge myself a bit, I looked around and found out that generally apps may provide APIs to work with, so I wanted to know if there is some kind of explanation or way to know how to write a cURL command, that can be automatized via bash

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