Captain Jack Moonrise

$ Whoami

Hello,

To be honest, I don’t know how to start this "about me." I’m not an expert, nor do I have a fascinating story to tell. I’m just an enthusiast about a field of technology.

I started this journey in a rather unique way, I believe. I began my studies in software engineering around 2015, which allowed me to learn about programming and computer theory. However, this path took a drastic turn at the beginning of my professional career when I attended a conference on RSA encryption. I didn’t understand anything at all, which motivated me to learn more about mathematics.

Soon, this led me to the conferences of Chema Alonso, a renowned hacker from Spain. This introduced me to the "hacker" culture, which gradually deepened my interest in cybersecurity, leading to an almost obsessive desire to learn more.

I even remember when I learned to capture keystrokes for a project in my programming class. I used this knowledge to create a very rudimentary keylogger, but at least it was a way to apply my skills in this field, just for fun.

Little by little, I began to study more on my own and focus my interests on this field, but my paranoia didn’t allow me to do more advanced things, as I was worried about doing something illegal. I even remember carefully reading the old Hack The Box page when I first discovered it and choosing not to connect to their network to further develop my skills, as they had a warning not to connect directly since there were other professionals capable of compromising you.

Another significant milestone in my career was my interest in Linux and open-source software. Currently, I don’t consider myself radical in my software ideology, but I despise everything related to the use of my information and the limited freedom I have to break and understand things, such as cell phones or this dominant desktop operating system. Well, privacy and advanced system usage belong to another sector, which I greatly appreciate, and the GNU/Linux project provides me with everything I need.

To conclude this “about me,” there’s not much more to say, as I am not very different from other enthusiasts in the cybersecurity or IT sector. We are all passionate, and perhaps our origins are different, but we all end up in the same place. Using technology for purposes that were not initially intended is not unique to us. When developing software, one must offer the correct option, whether it be the simplest, the most efficient, the most scalable, etc. That lateral thinking is what we could call “engineering,” which allows us to solve problems or, in our case, search for and exploit information from systems to find those weak points. People who are not in IT call us "hackers" when, in reality, we are just technology enthusiasts using our knowledge to do fun things simply because they are fun.