I'm reading the forum for about a year, and now I think I've read enough and be ready for registering and to post something :-)
for living I'm selling christmastrees in december and drive trucks...and, thanks to rsnake, I'm currently writing my diploma-thesis on webappsec (because of his blog, I got interested in this topic)...
Hector here.
I found this forum on a link at Darkreading.
Although I was busy long ago with assembly and C coding (yes, I'm THAT old!), I'm more of what you call a network guy nowadays. Along this line the interrest for security kept coming to surface.
Wow... our first reader from DarkReading! I never thought it would happen! ;) Welcome! id is our local networking guru, so please direct routing/firewalling/switching questions to him.
Dont remember how I came across .ckers, best chance is gnucitizen, but Ive been reading for some time now your articles ( and not even close to openin the 'new posts ) and just wanted to say ThQ for the great job your doin here. So thank you and keep up the good work.
Welcome cetus! Yah, there's a lot of old and good content on the boards, so take your time and read some of the older stuff. There's some really good older threads.
We could add a hot topics thread that included links to the stuff we think are important and make it sticky, but then we're doing a lot of maintenance to make sure that list is regularly pruned.
what would really be great (and miss in BBS software in general) would be a thread evaluation system by the users (only participating ones ? or everybody ? both have pros and cons) weighting it's ranking. still newest thread/update first, but more chance to see highly "ranked" threads on the first page.
with the number of 56k modems serving has backup access on highend hardware (EMC symmetrix bays, E25K, whatever) maybe it's time to get back to our wardialers... (trash digging for loopback trunks anyone ?)
Hi, RSnake, id, and everyone around here. I've been ha.ckers.org reader for almost a year. Thank you for creating such a nice blog and forum! I am from Indonesia
Hey there! Just stepped by!
Found this board from one of my friend, Zoiz :)
My name's r3ck0rd, from Indonesia, own my own blog -> reckord.info
Yah, lot of junks and trashes there, but I hope you like some of the content =]
I know it sucks, but I admit it: I'm a Vista user (yes you know that, [v]irus ntruder pyware [t]rojanhorse [a]dware, what ever they like to say it), and an Ubuntu user (but mainly use Vista).
I'm just a 14 years old kid, who really likes the topics covered here. I'm no security professional, yet I may be called as lame or n00b. It's up to you, I don't mind, as I'm a n00b after all :P
I don't know how to introduce myself here, so I hope you enjoy at least 10% of my introduction? XD
for Mr. RSnake, you're going to come here, aren't you? :)
My name is Steven,
I am currently 26 Years Old, and I reside mainly in California.
I do not have much to bring to the table... To be honest, I got to this site by one day deciding to have a conversation with a search engine.
I come here with much respect, and wish that I can become apart of this amazing creation.
Please give me more to slack on... Other than the organic computers I like to play with.
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> I come here with much respect, and wish that I can
> become apart of this amazing creation.
> Please give me more to slack on... Other than the
> organic computers I like to play with.
Ya know if you take a can of air and blow out the crumbs in your keyboard, it wouldn't be so organic? :)
j/k.
Welcome!
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Regarding gun carry laws: I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by six...
I'm Eric, I go by whatever though (although it's nice if it pertains to my username / real name in someway).
I guess I'm a new-ish kid on the block, I wrote my first lines of code about a year ago but that was just HTML. My obsession with code has been growing exponentially over the last month or so; and I've only been into security for a week or so (although it's practically taken over me).
I'm a high school junior, looking at Florida Tech for college if you're curious, so forgive me if I am at times immature or ignorant. But I try to do the best I can :)
That's a brief summary I guess, you'll learn more about me and my personality by reading my posts than I can sum up here.
So yeah, it's nice to be here, and I hope you guys can educate me a bit while we all have fun :D
Hey Eric, welcome aboard. Obviously you are on the right path if you've found this place already. There are quite a lot of great minds around this place, me not being one of them. ;)
I'll tell you one thing though, judging from your writing skills, I can already tell you're going to be a great contributor to this board in the years to come.
--thrill
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It is not the degrees you hold, but the mind you possess. - thrill
I found this place looking for information on XSS. I was tired of hearing about it over and over but not understanding what it was. The original document from Microsoft Research was on ha.ckers.org, and I found it via Google. That really helped me understand the attack and found several vulnerabilities in my coding and some of my buddies'.
Shortly after I realized the wealth of information available here, both in the blog and on the forum. So let's see where this goes!
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> Thanks guys!
>
> I found this place looking for information on XSS.
> I was tired of hearing about it over and over but
> not understanding what it was. The original
> document from Microsoft Research was on
> ha.ckers.org, and I found it via Google. That
> really helped me understand the attack and found
> several vulnerabilities in my coding and some of
> my buddies'.
>
> Shortly after I realized the wealth of information
> available here, both in the blog and on the forum.
> So let's see where this goes!
>
> Thanks again guys,
> -Eric
Welcome aboard, Eric! This is an awesome community and you'll find a lot of helpful people and info here. I'm new to IT myself, and just started in my divisions' security team- learn something new every day. Anyways. Welcome to the site!
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Regarding gun carry laws: I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by six...
I'm Sriram. Well I'm just a college guy turned 21 recently, doing my bachelors' in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE), here in India.
I'm basically a C/C++ programmer and I've turned into web programming for past few weeks. It all started when I downloaded a video from Shmoocon.org 'JavaScript Malware for a Grey Goo Tomorrow -by Billy Hoffman'. It really inspired me, drove me crazy and made me realize the true power of Javascript. I started googling things and I hit RSnakes XSS Cheat Sheet. Then I came to know how XSS really worked! When I came across the thread- Diminutive XSS Worm Replication Contest, I was totally into it. Now I've started learning Javascript.
That's it for me. Hope I can satisfy the needs of this forum and I can learn a lot from you guys coz I'm just a newbee ;)
Some may remember me from http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070309/analysis-of-firefoxs-password-manager-fix/
I just stumbled on a character encoding vector that seems to be missing from the XSS Cheat Sheet. I'm here to get acquainted and make sure I'm not reinventing the wheel. :)
