Awesome Wilson. Good luck. What sort of IT stuff you interested in?
Cheers mate. Into a few different things but ultimately I wanna get into pentesting and be a white hat hacker. Right now I'm some way off but as I learn more about programming, networking, and so on it's like stepping stones. I've always been very interested by the topic (used to keep hacking my school's shitty Windows XP network lmao... and when I say hacking I mean if you unplugged and replugged the ethernet cable at the right time during boot it made you an admin ? ) and they make serious money not only from day jobs but also from bug bounties.
Have you seen now Apple offers up to a million dollars bug bounty for hacking the iPhone? Of course this is because hacking the iPhone is very difficult, but for that same reason even a few more basic exploits (not ones that allow remote code execution, which is the holy grail) are worth a few hundred grand easy. The iOS exploits market is huge. China has a big piece in it for commercial reasons, companies like Alibaba will pay out millions for a working jailbreak these days, I can go into why if anyone actually cares. But it's the NSA and and GCHQ who are two of the biggest buyers of exploits and pay millions for each good one. This is why I'd love to be one of the good guys getting shit fixed instead of letting it be abused by state attackers for surveillance. Fuck the state.
But anyway what I was saying is with iOS what you actually get is exploit chains instead of a single exploit allowing for remote code execution because the system is so complex and secure, so to let's say gain remote access you are probably stringing together 10 different exploits. Those exploits all together are worth at least a mil to either the NSA, Chinese jailbreakers, or more recently Apple's bug bounty. But even one alone can be worth a few hundred grand as a valuable piece of the puzzle.
And I remember when jailbreaking was in its early days, geohot was the big man (at like 17 he was the best iPhone hacker around), and I first jailbroke my iPod touch (because fuck me if I could afford an iPhone back then) by visiting a certain website that did some remote exploit that made it think it had like 32MB memory, then plugging it into some software to execute the final payload and leave me with a jailbroken system. Then I used Cydia, or in the earlier days the one just called Installer, to download apps because in the first gen devices Apple didn't even have an App Store yet.
On that note with all this nostalgia it's a fucking shame YouTube removed all the hacking tutorials. There was a few channels with very good content about SQL injection, buffer overflow attacks, how stacks work, what POSIX is, etc etc... from simple to advanced level shit, all of it was there. It was particularly a useful way of learning how exploits are found, which is an otherwise difficult to access topic without going on some dodgy black hat forums which are always full of low level script kiddies or carders asking how to get more PayPal accounts lmao. These videos had easy to understand tutorials on how buffer overflow attacks work for example, hard to find usually. Maybe I should pick up some books on it though, difficult thing is finding one that either doesn't oversimplify or expect you to already be a hacker mastermind.
Anyway the question is what sort of IT stuff am I interested in? Mostly that. Sorry you asked me while I'm on amphetamine
I also run a couple servers and have a few projects on the go.