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It's the last night we went in to hopefully, as I showed you, a bunch of cool resources and building

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on up page.

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Now I just want to take a step back and share our story.

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How did I get.

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Waiting at the Black Joe got into.

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Right now, for me, my story's a little bit different, I think everybody stories, but for me it all

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started with AOL, OK?

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And really before that AOL, I mean, America Online.

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This is back in the early 90s.

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But, you know, I was actually going to go into art right after I have an art attention park.

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That's my thing.

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I like drawing like, you know, paint.

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I used to watch what was all that cool stuff, but my dad was like, hey, if art can only get you so

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far and I don't want you to be a starving artist.

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So here's a computer book.

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And he threw me a C++ textbook that was like 600 pages back.

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I mean, because Deuch so, you know, I didn't know what to do.

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So I just read the whole book.

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And, you know, once I got through with it, it was time to plan for college.

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And I applied for college and decided to major in computer science because that's all I knew.

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That's what I thought I was supposed to do.

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So I got into computer science and it wasn't really anything to do with side versus generic computer

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science.

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But I had an emphasis on networking in telecommunications because I thought that was fun.

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It was cool to get a computer.

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You see the data and how it flows in and out.

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So and plus, you know, I always kind of had a technical affinity for tech.

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So, you know, it wasn't too difficult for me to make the transition from art into computers.

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But then, you know, when I started messing with computers, something interesting happened to me because,

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wow, what else?

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I got hacked.

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You see, I used to go to these things to go to these classrooms with his classroom, these chatrooms

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and in these chat rooms.

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I would, you know, talk to people.

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People would go out these things called punter's.

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We could kick people out of chat rooms and can a bunch of text chat rooms called, oh, scroller and

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warez was really big or just sort of like a legal software.

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And so, you know, I got an email one day from someone who said, hey, here's the newest.

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Here's some software that you might like what it was.

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But, you know, I downloaded it not realizing it was a virus.

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And it wasn't until a few days later when I realized that I actually got hold.

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Pond is basically when you've gotten hacked, that's what happened to me, because this software that

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was masquerading as normal software was actually the sub seven, sub seven Trojan, and the attacker

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had complete control of my system.

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And was essentially spying on me, recording my keystrokes, one day, a window popped up on my screen

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and he basically said, hey, this is your password, right?

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I mean, imagine that he that's basically what happened.

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And so I ended up talking to the attacker and, you know, I I asked him like, hey, you know, what's

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going on, how to do this and do that dialogue.

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I learned about this tool called subsetting, and that's how I got into the hacking scene.

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Now, of course, I didn't immediately transition into a full time career of cyber.

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You know, I was, you know, working in the university, fixing computers, resetting passwords and

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stuff like printers, a bunch of stuff that I really hated, I hated with a passion.

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But the transition from traditional IT to cyber was kind of difficult.

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And it really for me, I'm a Christian, so it came down to pray a lot.

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And in addition to that, the Lord was able to connect a relationship with my wife's friend who happened

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to work at a large consulting company, major cyber consulting company.

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And he was able to sort of guide me or or mentor me and help me to get the skills I needed to get into

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this field.

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So I say all this just let you guys know anybody can get into ethical hacking.

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If you come from an accounting background, if you come from, you know, a medical background doesn't

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really matter as long as you have a passion and a desire to learn, you can do this.

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All right.

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It's really it's really that straightforward.

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So I hope that provides some inspiration and some motivation for you guys.

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In the next lecture, we're going to dig into the miter tech methodology and explain everything, what

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that is and why it is so awesome.

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I will see you in the next lecture.