Thoughts of a nomad hacker

In a world where the boundaries between physical and digital are increasingly blurred, I find myself as a modern-day wanderer, a digital nomad trying to find his space in the vast world of Bug Bounty hunting. Welcome to my digital place, where I'll share with you my journey through my research, my thoughts, and my adventure.

Who am I?

My name is Cassim, known as Aituglo, and at the age of 23, I've chosen to embrace a lifestyle that's as unconventional as it is thrilling. As a digital nomad, I've left behind the comforts of a traditional desk job to traverse the globe with nothing more than a backpack and an insatiable curiosity.

My expertise lies in cybersecurity, where I try to make a living as a bug bounty hunter – looking out for vulnerabilities, and ensuring the web is a safer place. But if you follow this blog, I'm sure that you already know what Bug Bounty is and it's not the place to define everything.

Why doing this blog?

It's been a very long time since I wanted to build something like that. I share my thoughts, my journey, and my security research, but my laziness always won and I never started.

Now it's different, I have time. Time to hunt, time to write, and time to research. And I want to document everything here through the eyes of a beginner in terms of web security.

I already found some bugs, and got some bounties ( I'm gonna cover with my figures in the next post ), but for the moment, I don't feel enough confident about my skills in web security. That's why I'll try to improve that by sharing with you all of my research. I know that it helped me a lot in the past to teach someone else about something to feel more comfortable with that.

What type of content?

Nothing is predefined in my head for the moment, I want to just start and I will see in the future what it will be. But for instance, I want to cover my journey of trying to be a full-time bug hunter.

To show that, I'm gonna write at least one article per week, sent in the newsletter, so not a big spam. And I'm gonna cover new things I'm learning about digging deep in web security to find new bugs and not being stuck with the basic ones.

In addition to that, I'm going to give you access to my brain, it's all my notes I'm going to take about web security, payloads, and interesting stuff to dig deep into. For the moment, it's quite empty, but don't worry it will be improved in the next few weeks.

I know that if I don't start, I will never do it, so I prefer to start with something quite empty and bare and improve that during the time.

In these articles, I'll try to put some stuff about my journey as a Digital nomad and include some pictures if it can interest you, just tell me.

By following the newsletter, you're gonna receive all the new articles in your box ( no spam I promise, I don't like intrusive newsletters too ) and access to my notes, for free ( for the moment ).

What type of methodology do I have?

I'm gonna write a full article about it, but I'm trying to do, for the moment, full manual stuff in Bug Bounty. I already tried to build some automation but I don't think I want to have one.

Simply because I found it more valuable and impactful to just hunt on the main app and find impactful bugs. Of course, it's harder and I can feel that, but I think it will pay off in a few months.

Maybe I will add some automation like scripts and stuff to improve my workflow and speed it up, but it will be in the next months.

Where am I?

Okay, now let's talk about travel. I first wanted to go to South Asia, primarily because of the cost of life, and it would be easy as a beginner to still be alive without getting a lot of money at first.

So I went to Thailand first, and I stayed there for 2 weeks because the weather wasn't very good with a lot of rainy days and it was very hot, too hot for me and work.

I decided to go to South Korea, a country I already know so that was easy to find a good place to stay and to work.

How do I organize my days?

As I don't want to burn out in a few months, I try to work in the morning, every morning on finding new bugs in my favorite programs. And then in the afternoon, it depends. I can chill, visit the place where I am, learn new stuff, create a video for my channel, or write these articles. And then some sport so keeps the shape.

It's quite hard at first to organize yourself when it's the first time you have to do everything by yourself, but it's pretty fun and I like it this way. I'm sure that I'm gonna improve my workflow.

What's next?

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See you next Monday!