Roadmap to destiny
Posted 08-09-2015 at 03:19 AM by m3rl1n
I assume that - at least once in your 'working' life, you've felt that your job wasn't satisfying you. Working in Hi-Tech - the last 29 years have been reasonably interesting, but lately I felt that whatever I sought to do, wasn't doing it for me. Now I think I might have found what I was destined to do: Ethical Hacking!
My personal roadmap to becoming a savvy computergeek in many area's of computer technologies started when I was only 16. I was seriously interested in how computers talk to each other (Host-To-Host), and upon the release of the 80386 computer and the (then) newest 2400 baud external Robotics modem, I just had to open an ANSI BBS (Bulletin-Board). Soon thereafter Internet became available in my country (mainly Usenet) and I switched from RA-BBS to Wildcat, making messages available for BBS users from and for the Internet. I got a job at the first Internet Provider on the help desk, and found myself working as system administrator after only 1 year.
Due the scarcity of geeks I was allowed to do some serious job hopping. I would go to work, take courses on different subjects and strive for yet another challenge to master. All my working life in high-tech I have been keeping hackers away from the honey. I lost many nights of sleep, trying to prevent anyone from gaining any information whatsoever from the servers and workstations that were part of my responsibility.
The last years I have been programming, and learning about application layer security. No more layers in the OSI model to secure and less sleepless nights I thought. What kept me awake were not the potential white or blackhat hackers, but rather that creepy feeling of not being satisfied with what I had achieved so far.
Recently however I don't sleep at all! I have found a way to combine all my skills into a new roadmap with new challenges. I stay up late to learn how to break into systems, how to exploit vulnerabilities and how to do this in an ethical way. I am enjoying this very much!
I have setup my IBM M3 Linux Server, and some Linux workstations (crunching takes a lot of power), and my laptop for WIFI challenges. I am eating books on ethical hacking and I spend most of my time trying to systematically hack my own network (keeping it legal). I never knew that it was good to penetrate a system, so challenging and so rewarding. I think I might have finally reached my destination. Yay!
My personal roadmap to becoming a savvy computergeek in many area's of computer technologies started when I was only 16. I was seriously interested in how computers talk to each other (Host-To-Host), and upon the release of the 80386 computer and the (then) newest 2400 baud external Robotics modem, I just had to open an ANSI BBS (Bulletin-Board). Soon thereafter Internet became available in my country (mainly Usenet) and I switched from RA-BBS to Wildcat, making messages available for BBS users from and for the Internet. I got a job at the first Internet Provider on the help desk, and found myself working as system administrator after only 1 year.
Due the scarcity of geeks I was allowed to do some serious job hopping. I would go to work, take courses on different subjects and strive for yet another challenge to master. All my working life in high-tech I have been keeping hackers away from the honey. I lost many nights of sleep, trying to prevent anyone from gaining any information whatsoever from the servers and workstations that were part of my responsibility.
The last years I have been programming, and learning about application layer security. No more layers in the OSI model to secure and less sleepless nights I thought. What kept me awake were not the potential white or blackhat hackers, but rather that creepy feeling of not being satisfied with what I had achieved so far.
Recently however I don't sleep at all! I have found a way to combine all my skills into a new roadmap with new challenges. I stay up late to learn how to break into systems, how to exploit vulnerabilities and how to do this in an ethical way. I am enjoying this very much!
I have setup my IBM M3 Linux Server, and some Linux workstations (crunching takes a lot of power), and my laptop for WIFI challenges. I am eating books on ethical hacking and I spend most of my time trying to systematically hack my own network (keeping it legal). I never knew that it was good to penetrate a system, so challenging and so rewarding. I think I might have finally reached my destination. Yay!
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