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respect to “The Qualys Security Team”, who keeps showing art and dedication
in every single advisory.
My respect too to Google’s Project Zero. There should be an invite only
conference on 0-day hunting, where these heroes share their experience and
fishing techniques. Kill the class, not the single bug, or better fix both.
And Kill the 0-day!
|=---=[ Your opinion on conferences?
My last one was H2HC/24, and yes, it was big, with lots of people, and I
loved it. Defcon has gone huge a long time ago, and it has always been a
matter of luck to catch a good talk without missing another, but it’s
usually easy to find somebody interesting to talk to, if you are willing to
let it happen. Though maybe too many things happen around and outside the
conferences, and that’s completely out of reach for most of the mortals.
So, maybe, short version: Abolish all “product sales” talks, get demanding
on technical content, and squeeze in a few talks that make the audience step
back and think at a higher level. Then turn on the music and throw a party.
Oh, and more hardware, we need more hardware and to simplify access to
hardware hacking!
|=---=[ Recommendations
Technical Books:
* Phrack. 40 years of fun and profit. Hard cover.
* Computational Geometry - Algos and Apps ( <3 sweeping line <3 )
* Thirty Years Later: Lessons from the Multics Security Evaluation
Non-Technical Books:
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I have a serious problem and I can rarely go past the first couple
chapters of non sci-fi non technical books, though I keep trying. So, my
short and totally unfair list (of not so known books): Babel-17, ME (by
Thomas T. Thomas), maybe Rainbows End and Makers more mainstream and “Tlön,
Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” (my favourite from “Ficciones”).
|=---=[ Reflections
Hacker Spirit:
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Understanding how things work, finding a way around limits, and sharing
it with others, to make understanding easier, Loop. The three things
together. On the attackers side, there’s too much money for a healthy
competition and open sharing, MAYBE it’s easier on the defender's side.
Kill the 0-day!
Exploit Industry:
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The monetization of the vulns and exploit has clearly made the power
imbalance even worse and broke the flow of information. The way out IMHO, is
to double up and openly share even more. It may get worse at first, but
it’ll be positive at the end.
Career Burnout:
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I left security to go do satellites, to then come back. It was also
great to move to the defenders side, and see things from a different PoV.
Don’t be afraid of going out of your comfort zone. If you love learning and
doing new stuff, then, do new stuff and learn. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
|=---=[ Insights
Hacking Milestones:
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Learn assembly and solve all CTFs you find online, before 20. Write
ASCII self decoding shellcode, extract data from a blind SQL injection,
write a remote shell client-server over a non-standard protocol (icmp, dns,
etc), use gdb to install a backdoor in a running nginx and OllyDbg to do the
same in Windows, without touching the filesystem, implement a known
Cryptographic primitive, understand rainbow tables, implement a TCP/IP
stack, solve some of the advanced cracking challenges by ricnar and most
ABOs, write a remote heap overflow that always works, reverse engineer an
unknown server with crypto back to C, implement its client in python... all
before you are 25.
IT’s not my story, but a HACKER needs to be the best in every discipline, or
keep trying. And remember, with great power comes great fun, and also some
responsibility.
Nontraditional Hacking:
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Lying when they ask me for personal information they don’t really need.
It’s stupid, but it takes practice to lie when they ask your name or your
birth date, and you may need to remember what you said: practice it, pollute
DBs. I also love hacking toys for my kids (adding a RC, etc) and fixing
things that broke.
The "Art" of Hacking:
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Understanding things better than their creators to find the
hidden menu options they didn’t know they put there.