Break into your local infrastructure. · 🏴‍☠️HACKER 🤖MIMES 🐇☂️🧩

Break into your local infrastructure.

I identify as authorized, and you should as well. What does that mean? To me it means that you absolutely should know how your local drainage system works and feel welcome to inspect it for yourself. The local steel mill makes rebar at industrial scale and of course you're authorized to inspect their PLCs. Is Boeing stress testing their planes near you? Absolutely authorized to inspect that. It'd be irresponsible not to check the functionality of the air space warning light at the top of that suspension bridge down the road. Authorized. I strongly suspect that most here have a skill set they're underutilizing, sure making a buck or two red teaming some corporate entity is good and all but you're unlikely to be hired to check the server rack handling emergency service repeaters unless you're in a very niche market. All this to say that getting paid shouldn't limit when and where you get to use those skills of yours. Break into your local universities archives, they horde all the good information down there. Climb that bridge. Rappel into that steel mill. Canoe over to the local port cranes. If anyone asks, tell them you're authorized, it'll take you further than you think. Ask me how I know. Honing your skills outside of the limitations of "work" expands your horizons and very quickly makes you substantially more effective across a broader spectrum than you had previously limited yourself to. It's good to be authorized.

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