4 May 2019
As we like to say down here in Texas, “Maaaannn, hold up”. The Tribe Of Hackers Summit just went down in Austin, Texas a couple of days ago and when I say it went down, believe me- IT WENT DOWN! Since this is what I do, (break you boyz’ off), I’mma break you boyz’ off real bad and put you up on what I learned from it. Unfortunately I was on my grind and didn’t get to make it out. But fortunately, we have links to it and I’ll be sure to share them with you at the end of the post.
First and foremost, I want to give a shout out to Mr. Marcus J Carey for this amazing idea and project. The Tribe Of Hackers is absolutely beautiful, bruh’. Please keep doing ya thing. And although I’ve yet to finish the book in its entirety, thus far it has been phenomenal.
“Dream..Sometimes you got to close your eyes and really envision that shit, bro. If you like it, then it’s beautiful. If you don’t? Then you might as well fade the fuck out right now”(“eps2.2_init_1asec”)
We’re at a time in history where I doubt that anyone can deny that hackers have some of the brightest minds that our planet has ever been graced with. Can we all agree on that? Thank you. Now imagine for a second that you’re someone from a broken home, mom and dad were ex-cons who were addicted to drugs and spent a majority of their brief time here on earth in and out of the penal system and, as a result, you were poverty stricken, living on welfare and raised by your grandmother until she couldn’t do it anymore. Consequently, you were raised by the streets. By the age of 16 you were in a gang and all hopes of receiving a traditional formal education had vanished. By the age of 17 you’d already witnessed your first homicide and also in that same year convicted of drug charges and sent off to state prison while the rest of your classmates were walking across the stage receiving their high school diplomas. By the age of 18 your mom was dead. You were released back out onto the same wicked streets that promoted the madness and by the age of 19 you were once again back in prison where the saga continued and through it all, society and those around you looked on thinking that your bipolar disorder made you numb to the pain and placed you in a distorted reality and therefore they neither gave nor offered you any help out of this vicious cycle. You were stuck.
Then one day you discovered this craft that people refer to as hacking. But there’s a problem with your newfound discovery. Remember earlier when we agreed that hackers have some of the brightest minds that our planet has ever been graced with? Well, if that’s true then what does that mean? What it means is based on our agreement, society would tell you that it’s absolutely impossible for you to become a hacker, homeboy. Forget about it. It will never be in your future.
So here you are. You come across this Tribe Of Hackers Summit. You’ve read the book. Hell, you’ve even seen some of these hackers on Twitter. There’s no secret who these bright individuals are. Sooo….you approach this Tribe, this Summit. You stick your head in. You take a look around. You’re totally expecting to not understand even a fraction of an atoms weight of what anyone of them are saying. But you listen anyway. Then one of them says something that resonates deeply within your soul and emotions. So you listen a little bit more. And another one says something else that does the same thing. Then another one. Then somebody else. Then it’s like wait, this can’t be happening. And suddenly by the end of the Summit you realize, HOLY SHIT- those Tribe Of Hackers are just like you! Isn’t that awesome?
You see, misconceptions can be very immobilizing until they’re cleared up. I’ve been around this “InfoSec” thing about 9 years now. And as much as I’ve evolved on the technical side of things, these Tribe Of Hackers at this summit made me reevaluate something on the human side of things. I’m literally shaken to my core because the question now becomes, if these are the hackers….then who the fuck are those guys who have been calling themselves hackers?
Hack On, Ladies and Gentz!
