Surprisingly, I still get a buzz from learning new tricks on Linux.
Back in the early 2000's as a practicing psychotherapist, a colleague had her laptop stolen from her car with her client files. At the time even I knew that there was a recovery disk called "trinity rescue" that removed the password from windows machines.
This for me was the drive to learn about encryption, privacy and security especially when managing confidential stuff like client files.
So. full disk encryption was the beginning to a whole new world for me. Bring on Linux. Dumped my old windows 95 and windows ME operating systems and installed Linux. Ubuntu and Linux mint back then.
I must say that more and more counsellors and psychotherapists are returning to paper files locked in secure containers. As we have all learnt over the years, nothing is safe online or on your PC, laptop. For without confidentiality there is no trust.
In the early days of the internet I noticed that my sisters wifi password was her surname and post code, so I started looking onto wifi hacking. 6 digit passwords were the norm back then, how times have changed. This is the arena I learned most about linux and its tools.
The buzz of getting the hash with aircrack-ng and then running hashcat or JTR to crack it. Building very large password databases. learned basic sed, awk, grep, sort, bash scripting etc.
Even though I was in my 40's then, it definitely appealed to the 15 year old introvert inside me. I never had any intention to do anything criminal, it was, for me, always just the challenge.
Plus being a psychotherapist, all that empathy and humanity back then, for balance sake, I needed to use and develop the other hemisphere of my brain.
Linux and open source for me is still the way to an egalitarian free society.
The linux society way versus the Microsoft society way.
Recently I found and installed the rust version of coreutils.
I promote linux to everyone I meet. I install it for anyone who is interested.
Back in the early 2000's as a practicing psychotherapist, a colleague had her laptop stolen from her car with her client files. At the time even I knew that there was a recovery disk called "trinity rescue" that removed the password from windows machines.
This for me was the drive to learn about encryption, privacy and security especially when managing confidential stuff like client files.
So. full disk encryption was the beginning to a whole new world for me. Bring on Linux. Dumped my old windows 95 and windows ME operating systems and installed Linux. Ubuntu and Linux mint back then.
I must say that more and more counsellors and psychotherapists are returning to paper files locked in secure containers. As we have all learnt over the years, nothing is safe online or on your PC, laptop. For without confidentiality there is no trust.
In the early days of the internet I noticed that my sisters wifi password was her surname and post code, so I started looking onto wifi hacking. 6 digit passwords were the norm back then, how times have changed. This is the arena I learned most about linux and its tools.
The buzz of getting the hash with aircrack-ng and then running hashcat or JTR to crack it. Building very large password databases. learned basic sed, awk, grep, sort, bash scripting etc.
Even though I was in my 40's then, it definitely appealed to the 15 year old introvert inside me. I never had any intention to do anything criminal, it was, for me, always just the challenge.
Plus being a psychotherapist, all that empathy and humanity back then, for balance sake, I needed to use and develop the other hemisphere of my brain.
Linux and open source for me is still the way to an egalitarian free society. The linux society way versus the Microsoft society way.
Recently I found and installed the rust version of coreutils.
I promote linux to everyone I meet. I install it for anyone who is interested.