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u/SecuredStealth 10d ago
Just say you work in cybersecurity
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u/Mattef 10d ago
Or hacker. Everyone understands that.
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u/SecuredStealth 9d ago
Hacker sounds too cliché'd for me... and gives a lot of "hackerman" vibes... sounds cool if you're a teenager...
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u/WarrioR_0001 10d ago
That's why I say pentesting
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u/Green_Reference9139 10d ago edited 10d ago
Then your friend passes you a bowl of hot sauce and asks you to demonstrate.
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u/DingleDangleTangle 10d ago
I just tell people I work in cybersecurity. If it’s someone who works in cyber I’ll tell them I work on a red team because they get that.
It feels really cringe to tell an average person I’m a hacker or whatever. The job isn’t near as interesting as most people think anyways.
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u/reboot_500 9d ago
My grandma looked me straight in the face and said: "why are you going to make porn. You always wanted to do something with computers"
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u/Harsh793XD 6d ago
Damn, she knows what porn is?
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u/reboot_500 6d ago
My grandma had my mother when she was 14 and my mom had me when she was 18. I think that's why she know what porn is
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u/No-Carpenter-9184 9d ago
‘I was thinking about getting into penetration testing’
‘Yeah right.. I didn’t know you were good with computers’
‘I’m not…😈’
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u/Machine-Everlasting 10d ago
You only have to worry when you tell them that, and one of them says, “I volunteer!”
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u/ElectrMC networking 9d ago
I walks up to my friends “I wants to be penetration tester” I says. I then receive 4738 connective back shots
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u/zzztoken 10d ago
Don’t worry I spent years not knowing how saying this probably came off so who knows what certain people think of me 😂
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u/MrSquakie 9d ago
My official job title is security consultant, but we do pen testing. Youll see that across the industry. Its easier to say at a bar and not get side eyed lol
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u/Depressed-Gamer-69 2d ago
Hey there sorry to distrub you but by any chance would be interested in hacking a game for monetary benefits that we could discuss once you Analyse the complexity of it's code but in a nut shell the game is made in unity uses l2cpp backend and is hosted on steam and has server side authentication but no particular anti cheats so there's the possibility of dlls and network spoofing so it's plausible I feel , feel free to revert back to me if you are interested and even if you aren't and I hope you have a great day
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u/Pretend_One593 1d ago
I have literally said in whole class when my cybersecurity expert was asking what are the types of testing can ppl do 😭😭😭 whole azzz class was laughig 😂
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u/un_mec_fou 1d ago
In my Spanish class, I had to give a presentation about the job I want to do. I said "penetration tester". Then the teacher asked me to translate it into Spanish. I used ChatGPT, but when I presented it again, she was shocked and I have no idea what I actually said.
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u/notouchinggg 10d ago
there’s a reason everyone calls it pen testing…
because pen15