"You may stop me, but you can't stop us all."

-Hackers (1995)


Cybersecurity, hacking, technology, humanity, it all depends on the ability to collaborate and share information. The infosec community has proven time and time again how exetremely capable it is as a whole when working together. An insane force to be reckoned with, holding up a lot of the world by a thread even, as CrowdStrike showed us. The more I learn about technology in general, the more I appreciate standing on the shoulders of the giants that built it. While yes, we are in a bit of a web-crisis around privacy and big tech, there are still amazing things happening every day. New projects, new ideas, new ways to solve old problems, faster, better. We are capable of it because someone can go look up how to do something or how something works; the availability of that information and the willingness of others to share knowledge drives innovation. The same way one might build a library to abstract some usefulness, ideas can be abstracted and compounded leading to progress and advancements when people have the resources and drive.

I created this organization to provide a place to flesh my ideas out with friends and peers, produce content and tools for the community, and hopefully provide value to someone, somewhere looking to learn. They might be the next Mudge, or preventing ransomware from shutting down life saving medical equipment, even helping the elderly get set up with their new device securely. All of those examples are something to take pride in, and equally as important. I cannot tell you how many times I have found a solution to something on a blog post in some obscure corner of the internet, so I have come to realize it feels like a shame to keep all of my notes to myself. It definitely ups the motivation to finally finish projects knowing that someone might find it useful.

-nefarious

"There's a war going on in cyberspace, and we can make a difference"
-also, Hackers (1995)