linux btw.
Fedora lives on the laptop. I like tech, I occasionally poke at Hack The Box and TryHackMe, and I enjoy the very specific satisfaction of making a computer do something it initially refused to do.
Fedora, on purpose.
$ cat /etc/os-release NAME="Fedora Linux" $ echo $HOBBIES linux ctf troubleshooting breaking-things-fixing-them $ sudo dnf upgrade [sudo] password for anton: ******** Nothing to do. Complete!
Things worth losing an evening to
The line between “learning” and “why did I reinstall my bootloader at 1:30 AM?” is thinner than advertised.
The scientific method,
but louder.
I am not pretending to be a movie hacker. CTFs are mostly curiosity, enumeration, documentation, rabbit holes, and eventually realizing the clue was right there.
01. Enumerate everything
Ports, services, versions, files, weird behavior. Collect facts before writing fan fiction about the exploit chain.
02. Form a theory
Pick the suspicious thing and test it. Accept that the suspicious thing may be completely innocent.
03. Read documentation
The forbidden technique. Extremely effective.
04. Get flag / get humbled
Both count as learning. Only one produces dopamine immediately.
Keep the security stuff legal.
Labs, CTF platforms, systems I own, or systems I have explicit permission to test. Breaking into random things is not a personality trait.