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Teenage "I'm a hacker" starter pack with Kali ISO and terminal Google search
Security Post #4104, on Jan 26, 2022 in TG

Teenage "I'm a hacker" starter pack with Kali ISO and terminal Google search

Description

Collage meme titled "The 14 year old 'I'm a hacker' starter pack" at the top in bold black text. Upper-left quadrant shows a shiny CD labelled "KALI LINUX" with the slogan "the quieter you become, the more you are able to hear" curved along the bottom edge. Upper-right quadrant displays an old ThinkPad-style laptop booted to a dimly lit desktop. Lower-left quadrant has a black T-shirt printed in neon green saying "KEEP CALM I'M A COMPUTER HACKER" under a crown icon. Lower-right quadrant is a Google search page where the query typed is "what is "terminal" ?" and the featured snippet from Webopedia reads: "What is Terminal? Webopedia Definition - A device that enables you to communicate with a computer. Generally, a terminal is a combination of keyboard and display screen." The meme pokes fun at beginner “script-kiddie” enthusiasm - grabbing a Kali Linux ISO, an old laptop, and merchandise - while still having to Google what a terminal is, highlighting early-stage security learning and command-line mystique familiar to seasoned engineers

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Security Juniors Learning CLI

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HackerCulture CyberSecurityMemes CLI CommandLineInterface Terminal LearningToCodeJourney LearningCurve

Comments

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Burning a Kali ISO to a thrift-store ThinkPad and then Googling “what is terminal?” - the infosec equivalent of deploying Kubernetes before you’ve mastered `ps aux`
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Burning a Kali ISO to a thrift-store ThinkPad and then Googling “what is terminal?” - the infosec equivalent of deploying Kubernetes before you’ve mastered `ps aux`

  2. Anonymous

    Ah yes, the classic 'I installed Kali Linux therefore I'm Neo' phase - where every ThinkPad becomes a 'hacking machine' and googling 'what is terminal' happens right after telling everyone you can hack the Pentagon. We've all mentored that junior who thought running nmap made them a penetration tester, right before they asked how to exit vim

  3. Anonymous

    Step one of the hacker journey: install Kali. Step two: spend three weeks getting wifi drivers to work, which is, to be fair, authentic pentesting experience

  4. Anonymous

    Ah yes, the classic progression: download Kali, buy the t-shirt, then spend three hours Googling why 'sudo apt-get install hacking' doesn't work. We've all seen this archetype at security conferences - armed with a ThinkPad running Kali (because that's what 'real hackers' use), wearing the obligatory hoodie, yet unable to explain the difference between a shell and a terminal emulator. The irony is that by the time they actually understand what they're doing, they'll cringe at this phase harder than we cringe at our own Git commit messages from 2010. The real hacker move? Spending five years mastering networking fundamentals, assembly, and cryptography before ever touching a pentesting tool - but that doesn't fit on a t-shirt as nicely

  5. Anonymous

    Boots Kali for street cred, runs whoami to feel elite, Googles 'terminal' - the script kiddie's imposter syndrome trifecta

  6. Anonymous

    Kali is just Debian with a hoodie - if you’re Googling “what is terminal?”, you’re doing Hoodie-Driven Development: sudo as architecture, Metasploit as CI

  7. Anonymous

    Real red teams talk initial access and dwell time; this stack's closest thing to privilege escalation is the KEEP CALM t-shirt

  8. @ilovethicktights 4y

    "what is terminal" definetly hacker

    1. @TERASKULL 4y

      how to hack nasa with html

      1. @ilovethicktights 4y

        lol just download double ram and u'll become hacker like from hollywood films

        1. @TERASKULL 4y

          apt install hollywood

          1. @ilovethicktights 4y

            sudo install snapd hollywood

            1. @TERASKULL 4y

              cursed shit, you still have time to delete this

              1. @ilovethicktights 4y

                u sure?

                1. @TERASKULL 4y

                  fuck snaps

                  1. @Bodziek 4y

                    +1

    2. @dsmagikswsa 4y

      May I know why? 😂

      1. @QutePoet 4y

        Because he's going to the object of interest from the start.

      2. @ilovethicktights 4y

        basic things, like breathing

  9. @VolodymyrMeInyk 4y

    lenovo thinkpad ❤️

  10. @l33tissw00t 4y

    It was Backtrack those days 😉

  11. @l33tissw00t 4y

    Kali is the new stuff

  12. @l33tissw00t 4y

    Still remember how exciting it was when Backtrack 5 was released

    1. @CcxCZ 4y

      I'd go with Pentoo then and probably so today.

  13. @ilovethicktights 4y

    k man

  14. @andrewyaroshuk 4y

    bolgenOS anyone?

    1. @ilovethicktights 4y

      not boring wallpapers yeah

    2. @feskow 4y

      Totaly not ooboontoo fork

  15. @nepalymiynik 4y

    haha it's me

  16. @ilovethicktights 4y

    oh yeah sure

  17. @SuperUserJarvis 4y

    When I was 10, it was called Backtrack

    1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y

      Same

  18. @dsmagikswsa 4y

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30118686 Are you guys commenting here? Omg hack at 10 years old

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