The noob of someone else and the return of automation

Hey guys, another week, another post. There was not a lot of stuff to cover today as I mainly worked on decorating my flat.

But still want to talk about some stuff that came to me recently.

The power of being my boss

It's been like 2 years now that I'm doing my own stuff, and it was hard at first and now it's pretty awesome. A lot of stuff happened and I'm very grateful for how I came here in only two years.

But it's not for everyone. It's challenging a lot and not always rewarding. I worked so much on some parts that didn't work and some useless stuff worked easily. You never know what will work and you have to try everything until you find your thing, and I think I found mine.

As Bug Bounty is not fully reliable for a lot of issues, I still try to cover other parts to back me up if someday there is a problem.

But I now feel like I can never return to working for a company as I love my liberty so much. I'm still training for the Paris marathon and having a 9 to 5 job and training should be so hard.

Being the noob of someone else

It's been a few weeks since some of my friends came to work on the program I used to go for. And they found so much good stuff and that was very amazing.

They went to the same place I went before and they found new vulns and very nice ones.

I find it very grateful as it reminds me that we are always the noob of someone else, and learning from them is very helpful. I have so much stuff to cover and plenty of time to do it.

I really need to take time to work on my skills and improve them, by doing CTF or by reading more technical articles. I was focused on working these past months and not really on improving my skills.

Now that I have more time, I will try doing it more.

Automation stuff

I finally bought my brand-new mini server to store all my stuff.

I put there 2 1to SSD and 4*4to HDD for the NAS part. I installed Proxmox on it and Truenas for the NAS. It's a 12-core CPU with 32 GB of RAM.

And finally two Debian virtual machines, one for work and the second for fun stuff.

I started installing basic stuff like xsshunter, caido, n8n, and some other important tools for me. It was a pain to understand how proxmox and truenas can work together and to get a fast VM but it's now good and working.

I will in the next weeks come back on some automation stuff with it, make some recon, and store it on the NAS.

I love taking time to build stuff like that, I know that it's a pain and it's not always rewardful but it's fun and I now have a good lab to work with.