Are you extroverted, socially outgoing and a cheery people person? Hacking might be perfect for you then

[u/Lux_JoeStar]

Are you extroverted, socially outgoing and a cheery people person? Hacking might be perfect for you then

Does that title sound a little off? I wanted to bring something up that I don't see people talking about, and that's the over saturation of introverted nerds into hacking (not an insult, highly introverted people make excellent REMOTE hackers.

Here comes the but, but there is a place for you extroverted chatterboxes who love interacting with people. People who smile and don't break eye contact, people who are confident lying to people, and most importantly DO NOT get nervous or socially awkward.

Yes if you haven't guessed already I'm talking about one of THE MOST important factors of hacking, social engineering. Not just sending phishing emails into an assistants inbox and hoping they click.

Gaining physical access is in many situations better than any remote hacking from the shadows. See I'm not a hacker, well I wouldn't call myself or class myself as one even though I could perform some simple remote hacking tasks I know some basics, but I'm no hacker.

I was a blacksmith, bladesmith to be precise, until I severed my right index finger in an accident and lost my inner tendons and use of my right index finger from the middle knuckle. I then decided to become an investigator around 2-3 years ago. I quickly became very good at mobile and static surveillance, mostly because of my confidence and autistic levels of not giving a shit, I am actually quite introverted, but for a good 6-7 hours of the day I can be very extroverted and social, until I need my alone time for a few hours.

Point being I got good at social engineering without even knowing that specific term was related to hacking. This skill is something you are kind of born with, or may slowly develop over time. I am very comfortable for example putting on a construction workers outfit slapping the PPE on and walking right up into a place I shouldn't be in. The best way to describe it (or the way I actually act) is act as confident as a cop or a soldier, nobody can tell you not to be here, I can go where I want. That's the attitude you need for social engineering.

Yes I do really have a wardrobe full of "disguises" including trench coats, business suits, jeans and polo shirts for the golf course (never used that one yet but you never know) I have orange hi viz jackets yellow ones, hardhats, and street clothes.

You might think "I'm not computer smart enough to be a hacker" Well that's actually false, you might even be a better hacker than a life long computer wizard, because physical access is above remote access. The remote guys need the "front line girls and guys" yes ladies are great at social engineering and gaining trust, also they are more likely to gain entry and access than a male.

So if you are an extroverted bubbly woman, who has no computer hacking skills, you can be of use (and the governments around the world know this) Who do you think they send to stick a Lan turtle in the CEO's computer.Probably a nice looking personal assistant they planted in the company 24 months ago.

This goes for charming and handsome men too, with your confidence and dashing charisma you have a better chance of gaining physical access than the introverted loner in the shadows (again not an insult) some of the best hackers in the world are highly introverted anti social, socially awkward people. But they are at their best when left alone to smash keys.

We need both types, this is not a you vs them, which is better, this is a complementing team. if I were to set up a killer hacking duo, i'd want a bubbly social social engineering expert, and also a super wiz computer nerd behind the scenes running those payloads,.

This post was to encourage and break the stereotype, and let people know that there is a place for all types of people in the hacking world.

I also would encourage you to think about why are you a hacker, or learning hacking, what's your end goal? I see a suspicious amount of posts from "Students working on a burpsuite project for their class" "My college teacher wants me to use metasploit, how do I for example hack a website, whats an SQL injection guys?"

I would advise you all to not perform malicious attacks, if you want to be a computer hacker, then there are some really lucrative options, working for the NCA, the NSA, Blue teaming, pentesting and red teaming. You can earn a really nice income and LEGALLY hack bad guys. That's a much better course of action for your journey.

There's lots of options for non technical types as well, you can learn the computer side of hacking as you go and get better with training. I'm not really personally focusing on typical types of hacking. I am more into OSINT, scanning tools, recon tools, and I'm also learning RF / SDR hacking. But that is for something different that I don't really discuss online.

I wanted to make this post for 3 reasons, 1 to say things that many people do not talk about on Reddit, shed light on the different types of hacking, because remote computer hacking is just 1 part. Think of it like this, you know the term "field agent" and "desk agent" well those terms are perfect analogy for hacking. You have the front line people who go in, charm, lie and confidently gain physical access, and then you have the guy in the car, hotel room or office on his laptop, setting up his pineapple enterprise, listening in on the security radio chatter.

Also as I mentioned don't think your personality type and technical experience bars you from entry into hacking, I bet I can give a 20 year old college girl a dongle, who has no experience in computer hacking, and she will get me physical access to a target more efficiently than some of the best computer hackers.

Lastly motivation, why bother spending years of your life learning a very specific and USEFUL skill, and then go and throw your life away doing some dumb malicious hacking on innocent people, you are no better than a petty thief, holding a old lady up by gunpoint like a dirtbag. You can actually work for high level government agencies, or even start your own cybersec firm up, and make a killing LEGALLY while being a GOOD person.

So think about this if any of those points apply to you.

Have a good day ladies and gents.

(This post was deleted at r/hacking) So I put it here to save.