Hai .o/

[Polynomial]

Evening all,

I'm Polynomial, I'm an active member of several syssec/netsec sites (XtremeRoot and EvilZone mainly) and I figured I'd come see what this place has to offer.

I'm fluent in C#, C++, C, VB.NET, x86 assembly, PICASM, PICC, PHP, XML, XHTML/CSS, JavaScript, SQL (MySQL, MSSQL and Oracle) and at an intermediate level of Java, Perl, Python and a whole bunch of other languages.

Experienced in remote vulns (sqli, rfi, xss, etc.) and code exploitation (e.g. rbof) as well as reverse engineering, crypto/cryptanalysis, sniffing, wardriving and Windows kernel internals.

Hope to get to know you all and help bring new material to the site.

EDIT: Crap! My auto-filler put .Root on the end of my nick. Could an admin change my name to just 'Polynomial' please? Thanks

[ph0bYx]

Welcome to Suck-O. Please familiarize yourself with our rules and enjoy your stay!

[DNR]

Not sure what to say. Those sites you are from are black hat and even allow CCs, defacement, and probably dropping and shipping.
People that generally gravitate to those sites provide us with job security and not much else. Most are generally criminals and only seek to understand hacking enough to exploit people, and even then - their tricks are only good on people who put too much good faith into human kindness and law and order.

So, where will you fit in.

DNR

[Polynomial]

DNR, I generally hang out in blackhat sites because they are one of the few places you can talk to people who are into syssec/netsec. Any hacking I've done in the past has been whitehat (ok, maybe the odd bit of greyhat), except in my younger days when I was involved in a few inter-community feuds. And I assure you, regardless of the stance of certain sites I frequent on carding, I've never done any myself out of principle. My day job involves maintaining the security of our network (about 1500 machines) so I'm very much pro-security. These days I'm mainly into teaching people and coding.

I'm glad you took the time to see where I'm at morally, since it's very often people just are happy to see one more user on their board with no regard for what qualities (or lack thereof) they might bring. It's also refreshing to see a large number of your users' posts are in full English, with txtspk being frowned upon. I think I'll like it here

P.S. To the admin who changed my login nick, thanks!

[lilrofl]

Welcome to Suck-o, I think you'll find that we aren't your average forum. Quality of individual is rated pretty high here.

I hope you find it a compatible environment, and that your stay is enjoyable

[ph0bYx]

Sorry for going a little bit off topic here, but I have a question about EvilZone. They used to be a pretty skiddie-like place but I remember ande saying something about changing to a more professional attitude, and I see that they made an effort towards it. Since you're frequent there, I was wondering how are they progressing?

[Polynomial]

Yeah, it used to be a real skiddie-fest but ande clamped down on a lot of that. He shifted all the forum posts from last year into an archive section and began a fresh start again for the main board. It's been pretty good so far. I think he's always going to have the problem that public boards on the topic of hacking tend to degrade due to the masses of thirteen year old morons that think hacking is "so l33t", unless of course the mods spend half their lives being complete nazis about post quality. If I remember correctly they've implemented a policy of "no handholding" and "teach, don't feed" to help quell the growth of new skript-kiddies.

So in summary, there is progress and it's better now, but for how long it will remain I do not know.

[lykos]

Welcome to suck-o! Im sure you will enjoy your stay here everyone here is friendly high quality individuals. I have found these forums to be a safe haven from all of the skiddie forums that i used to frequent because i had no where else to go to discuss net sec.

~[Lykos]~

[DNR]

I am glad you recognized the "teach, don't feed" method - it works on skiddies and posers here as well. Its pretty obvious if you do not want to learn - you just want a free meal. Suck-o is not a charity - many of us came to suck-o as a refuge, from daily lives as real hackers. Real hackers: CIS/IT students, employment/employed IT field, self-study gurus, and other geniuses that 'hack' systems like people, people policies and procedures, social engineers, medical (human body hacking!), law and tactics - what ever. We at Suck-o recognize the hacker as a mindset. It is a personality type, and it can be clearly defined. We found that including hackers from other areas of thought - besides computer, expanded the creativity and thought of the computer hackers. We had similar issues.

Suck-o is about the Red Pill.
Awareness, self actualization, empowerment, freedom. Responsibility.

Some of you will dive in to the forums, read to get caught up with the rest of us.
Some of you will make the forums your routine, a part of your life.
Some of you will make effort to understand your peers here, and learn about yourself.
Some of you, will become hackers.

DNR

[Pong18]

welcome to suck-o! after reading your exchange with DNR, i am very pleased to welcome you! =)