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05-23-2021, 02:09 AM
Hello, everyone! - again, actually.
Some of you may remember my other account: @
I'm a contract security researcher, smashing stacks and opening boxes for a living. I have a new job in my field which I've been very busy at making my career. It's very fulfilling so far in information security and I don't have to work for a government agency or private contract work anymore. Now I do work for large companies, usually data recovery lately. Around 2015, I was recruited as a senior analyst and researcher. Non-government, salary wages, lots of pen-testing and field work involving systems, data and recovery. I love it, so far, I get an office desk and I have much free time at home now. I'm able to spend time with friends and I choose to use it instead for journalism and doing what I like, rather than spending it 100% of the time at work, doing ordinary, boring things on a daily basis.
Since I was gone, it looks like some pretty big changes were made but I hope the IRC is still up. I'd be down for some nostalgic chats, maybe, if you'll have me? Other than that, I'll get into what my skills and professional aspirations are and give some insight into who I am and what it is I do for a living. I do have to redact certain information but that's because I signed an NDA for my salary. I'm still a grey-hat for the most part. Usually, I'm in the field pen-testing, evaluating security standards, implementing protocols and developing work practices that benefit both the company and its workers. I have a long, drawn-out resume so I'll spare you the details. I dabble in a lot of things from remote and physical IT to technical writing. I used to hack boxes for fun, now I do it for a paycheck, which was always my dream from the beginning.
Anyway, I'm glad to be back and if you want to know more I am available whenever. I'll try to reply in a timely fashion.
Some of you may remember my other account: @
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- your [mostly] friendly Hitler Pikachu, to which I no longer have access. This is due partially to bulletproof encryption on one of my drives, and my own stupidity in not making a backup of my KeePassX data years ago. But, whether it's under this account or the other, I don't mind. I'm just glad to be back. I don't even know if I could recover that username, because I can't really prove it was me in the first place. I could maybe provide some information only that user and the mods would know, or something along those lines. But it's not a big deal, and I don't think the Admin would even permit it for OPSEC reasons (i.e., I could be trying to dox). So, an explanation of my absence would have to be that I got bored. Not of 0day.red, but rather of the work I was doing before. I used to blog and smash stacks for a company I worked for, and they only paid me for work I did, it wasn't hourly or on a salary basis as it wasn't technical work per se. I did a lot of security for their servers but the company decided they were going another way. I didn't like the new management and their tactics, so I quit shortly after the new CEO took the reigns. But, we'll skip it for now.I'm a contract security researcher, smashing stacks and opening boxes for a living. I have a new job in my field which I've been very busy at making my career. It's very fulfilling so far in information security and I don't have to work for a government agency or private contract work anymore. Now I do work for large companies, usually data recovery lately. Around 2015, I was recruited as a senior analyst and researcher. Non-government, salary wages, lots of pen-testing and field work involving systems, data and recovery. I love it, so far, I get an office desk and I have much free time at home now. I'm able to spend time with friends and I choose to use it instead for journalism and doing what I like, rather than spending it 100% of the time at work, doing ordinary, boring things on a daily basis.
Since I was gone, it looks like some pretty big changes were made but I hope the IRC is still up. I'd be down for some nostalgic chats, maybe, if you'll have me? Other than that, I'll get into what my skills and professional aspirations are and give some insight into who I am and what it is I do for a living. I do have to redact certain information but that's because I signed an NDA for my salary. I'm still a grey-hat for the most part. Usually, I'm in the field pen-testing, evaluating security standards, implementing protocols and developing work practices that benefit both the company and its workers. I have a long, drawn-out resume so I'll spare you the details. I dabble in a lot of things from remote and physical IT to technical writing. I used to hack boxes for fun, now I do it for a paycheck, which was always my dream from the beginning.
Anyway, I'm glad to be back and if you want to know more I am available whenever. I'll try to reply in a timely fashion.
