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These two people are respectively 22 and 28 years old. They have spent their time in cyber-crime environments since their teenage years. Respectively, a third
by woko 5y ago
These two people are respectively 22 and 28 years old. They have spent their time in cyber-crime environments since their teenage years.
Respectively, a third of his life for the first one, and half of his life for the second one. And that is a lower bound.
The first one had an account on a cybercrime forum 8 years ago, so he was 14!
> These last two nicknames correspond to accounts on several top cybercrime forums way back in 2013.
The second one had an account 13 years ago, so he was 15. Wow!
> [T]hat forum’s database says a user by the name “Damnating” registered with the forum in 2008.
- mdrzn 5y agoI also used to have accounts on plently of cheating forums back in the days, most have gone offline now. Those places were the starting point to have a deep interest in IT, memory editing, and more broadly cracking.
- gavinray 5y agoI have a SQL Injection tutorial on Youtube with ~150,000 views, that I recorded when I was 13 or so I think. Had been doing code-stuff and hanging out on hackforums.net for a few years at that point. My voice is prepubescent in the video hahaha: "(Tutorial) - Hack a Website With SQL Injection" 147,745 views, Jun 26, 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z1rt9Y-ON0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z1rt9Y-ON0 I come back every few years to check on it, I found this comment particularly wild: rispettoPrograms: 2 years ago "this helped me to pass a Certified Secure test!" Thought I wanted to do Cybersecurity stuff when I was young, but as it turns out, when you're a young teenager "Cybersecurity" just sounds cool. Nowadays I build CRUD apps, and CRUD app accessories ;^)
- asjfj9 5y agoThis is great. Wish I had started programming earlier in my life (started when I was 23).