You did not listen. To be honest, I doubt you read this, but still, you did not listen. Let’s try that again, in much clearer terms. In this blogpost, I will ommit any human rights and assume you are trying to ban encryption services with no regard for laws or my right to privacy.

I have had my HackTheBox account for a long time now. Getting close to a decade. For those of you who don’t know, HackTheBox is a training/CTF platform, similar to TryHackMe. It is also a little different, you cannot register a new account without an invite code. You would like an invite code? Sorry, I can’t give you one, and neither can anyone else. To get in, you have to find the invite code generator, use it, and get the code yourself.

I will consider this partially a rant, but also an open letter to the European Parliament (profanity included).

One thing you should do to maximize your personal privacy is to “change coats,” i.e. burning identities, burning bridges, not keeping a permanent record as often as possible.

I finally did it. I bought a Google phone and installed GrapheneOS (https://grapheneos.org). So far, after a month of usage, it’s not that bad!

Well, about 2 hours ago, my OSCP exam time ran out. At this point, I should be writing the exam report, right? Well, to tell you the truth, nothing would make me happier, except for one simple fact:

One week from now, I will be sweating in a lab. The OSCP, you know the one, 24 hours of ball-wrenching AD and other machines, made just for me. It will be purgatory, and I still feel woefully unready, but I’ll go for it. It’s a hill I wanted to climb for close to ten years now, so it’s only fair that I experience it and don’t chicken out. The failure is imminent, but every day in the labs, I am feeling a little more confident. Every box, every successful pwn is a thing I’m sure to remember.

I am almost through my OSCP lab time. I do not expect to pass on my first try. Why? Simple.

Last week, I found out a fun thing. My country has not one credit bureau, but four.

Well, I feel like I need to let off a bit of steam and vent about things I learned in the past week, month, in the regular, stream-of-consciousness fashion.