preface

I have been working here for several years. I have encountered server hacks, website DDOS attacks, database tampering and so on. Server is not you say don’t let a person don’t let a person on, so IT security this topic is still quite heavy, involve a lot of things, only you understand more, you will know what you understand the security is actually so little.

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The beginning of a dream

I’m a budding penetration test engineer. I am still in the stage of work and study, and my infiltration journey has just begun.

A few years ago, I was still lying in the dormitory of my university. My roommates chose to go home because there was a month between the issuance of graduation exams and graduation certificates. Without goals, STANDING at the crossroads of life, I chose to stay behind.

In that month, the dormitory, which used to be busy, rapidly cooled down and returned to the state when we first started school. It seemed to be preparing to welcome the next batch of students.

At that time, I have no ability, no pursuit, no girlfriend, is a problem in the new century without youth. If someone had told me that I could one day, a year from now, work all day and still be paid enough to overlook most of my peers, I would have laughed. My life now seemed like a dream to me in the past.

The end came with a phone call from a best friend.

I clearly remember that day’s ranking, I lost a day in a row. I turned off the computer, bored lying on the bed, using the phone to brush the beauty of B station. Suddenly, a phone call pulled me out of bed.

“My friend, I’m going to pick up my former dream and do network security. Do you want to join me?”

“Cybersecurity, what is it?”

“In layman’s terms, hackers who don’t do bad things. The skills you learn, the work you do, it’s pretty much the same.”

“This I have no contact with ah, can’t learn how to do.”

“Rest assured, this entry is not very difficult, as long as you learn, you can get a particularly high salary.”

“Ok, I’ll come with you.”

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A few words, decided my future direction. Looking back on the experience of this year, although I have not experienced too many things, I can confirm that I made the best decision in my life, maybe I was lucky.

The road to the thorns

Maybe I didn’t know enough about my best friend, or maybe I thought I was in a situation where I could be sheltered by parents and school. At the beginning of my study, my performance was not satisfactory. After four years of idleness, I could not quickly enter the learning state even after I realized that I had nothing to rely on after drinking once.

I know nothing about the basic skills of network security, or even the basic knowledge of the network. Anyway, the process of digging for bugs seemed very interesting to me at the time. It’s the only thing I can count on right now.

Three hours of study every day, I think I work very hard, a month, then master most of the web vulnerability mining. Not every bug can have its own example, but AT the time I began to feel good about myself. Perhaps, I am the kind of genius in the novel, no matter what things, just look at it, I thought so at that time.

A pot of cold water, a CNVD certificate from a friend. As the person who learns synchronously with me, maybe it is because of his previous foundation or his secret efforts every day. When I was still proud of being able to dig the loopholes of wild stations, he had already found the general loopholes of a CMS.

But at that time, ALTHOUGH I was devastated, but still did not wake up. Just think of one thing repeatedly, he was stronger than me, MY strength was inferior to the other side. Over time, I developed a bad habit of breaking POTS.

The learning progress during that period was the slowest in my learning process.

Maybe I was a little naive, and that’s why I’m on shaky ground.

I can’t remember much of the free learning time in the early stage. Every time I recall, I only have quarrels with my friends in order to help me get into the learning state. Maybe, my best luck is to have this friend.

The Monkey and the Tiger

Three months of study was a short time, and before I knew it, his university had opened. Idle a person I began to wander in this strange city alone. Countless times I watched the night lights on the street and the traffic at the intersection until the taillights of each car became a line in front of my eyes.

That was when I first started thinking about my future.

Looking at myself, I have no illustrious family background, and even I who play the game of life, in a sense, have been regarded as a burden on the family. Without any ability to work, but the vision is very high, look down on the construction site to do a hard day of migrant workers, and was looked down on by the office white-collar. At the end of every thought, I think of the same sentence. Perhaps the two kinds of people I admire and despise despise trash like me.

I vaguely remember drinking a lot of beer the night before the transition. So much so that I’m surrounded by aluminum beer cans. But then, sadly, I realized that my only solace, alcohol, could not save me from the whirlpool.

The next day, I said goodbye to my friend and turned to a security training company. My time of study was not long, but it was not without success. Among the students in the same period, I soon became the master of everyone’s mouth. But every time I hear it, a wry smile comes to my lips.

“People who have never seen a tiger think of a monkey as a mountain bully.”

The funny thing is, I’m the monkey, and I’ve seen the real tiger.

Who’s not a genius

During the six months of training, I had a very happy time. No friend of the step by step, not all day dark day of learning, not brush a B station to see a beauty are terrified of life, let me live very full. But when it’s late at night and I’m the only one awake, I always look at the night sky and reflect on what I’ve learned today, accompanied by the sound of planes taking off and landing.

Did I really learn something? No! Do I really like this life? Like it! Do I really want to be this decadent? Don’t want to!

These are three questions I have asked myself many times, but because of the affirmation in the middle, I did not change my habits for a long time. And the only thing I could rely on was my talent, my computer talent.

What others read ten times, I only need to read once to get the point. Others dig ten times of the website, I can still find loopholes. I can spot a problem in a script that no one else can see.

That’s what I rely on, that’s what I’m most proud of, that I think I can do better than most people with my talent, and that the rest, even if I try hard, I just don’t think about it.

Until one day, a new star appeared in the training, who was more shining than me. He could dig SRC vulnerabilities that I dared not touch, he could brush the top 100 of vulnerability platform, and he could go to famous factories. And he, two months ago, was something I despised.

That night, I sat alone in the classroom for so long that I didn’t even know why I had to stay in the classroom without studying. During the day, I went to talk to the new star, and his slightly nervous hand rubbing was still repeated in front of my eyes.

Also that night, I reopened the study materials and opened a SRC home page.

I don’t have a player, but I hear a song over and over again.

“There are few people born who are not geniuses! Few people go up and down, not geniuses! There are few people born who are not geniuses! …”

The lyrics are real, in this world, who is not a genius.

Hello, passer-by

The training time was over quickly, and I gave up the interview of party B’s big factory and went to a small company. The monthly salary was meager, but it gave me peace of mind.

Do not know from when, I feel very bad, no ability, like bragging force, meet a problem to seek help from friends, to the end, should belong to me only a person’s actual combat experience, I did not learn anything.

In a word, the work in a small company was related to salary, without any difficult loopholes, and the working hours were long but full. At that time, I felt that I was making steady progress towards the original plan. First do intern, then become a full-time, in a small company to do enough work experience for a few years after job-hopping to a large factory, using their accumulated superb skills stand out from the rest of the crowd, become their childhood dream of the master.

But a plan is a plan, and an idea is an idea.

Easy, but tedious, work that takes up all the fragmented time. I didn’t have any time to learn anything new, but gradually solidified my shaky foundation.

That’s as far as it goes.

Several times when I was drinking with my friend, he brought up this topic with me, and I always waved my hand. I felt that AT that time, I could already take charge of myself, and I didn’t need others to teach me what to do. Every time, my friend always shook his head and left, and I just drank wine and watched him disappear.

How long can I hang out behind him? It was a question I could have easily answered, but never wanted to answer.

A little stability, all right? After all, I’m just a human being. A plain old man, like most of the people still walking the streets.

It occurred to me at that time that if life was really a movie, I could only be a passer-by living behind the curtain at best, and the bright splendor of the leading role existed in a distant place. I raised my glass, motioned toward the empty seat, and said softly.

“Hello, passerby.”

As a halfway penetration test engineer, I should be mixed quite well, with the average salary of this post in big cities, doing the average workload of this post in big cities.

Hacking is the common name of our work.

Before I entered this industry, I thought it was a very noble job, not a genius to handle. But now it seems that what I thought before, it was just a fog. Flowers are just flowers, and then beautiful flowers, can only open at the appropriate time, the appropriate time to wither.

So now it seems that I am just a worker ant doing nothing in the society. The sense of superiority I felt when I started working is gone now.

I think, so far, everything about myself is natural. When I was at a crossroads, someone pointed me in the right direction. With a little effort, I found a company that would accept me. I want to go to a better company, and I can get it through my own hard work, even though that effort, in my opinion, doesn’t even take up a tenth of my play time.

Smooth sailing. I don’t really want to say this about my life so far, but looking back, it seems perfectly fine.

But, really someone’s life, can because of the smooth sailing? As a young man, should I choose to think hot when faced with multiple choice questions?

“When making a choice, the best way is to flip a coin. Important choices are not decided by the pros and cons of the coin, but by the time the coin flies in the air, your heart will already know what you really want to answer!”

When the coin flies in the air, you know what you want the answer to be.

The last

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