By serendipity I just noticed that this blog 18th birthday was four days ago! The first blogpost was on 14th October, 2007. Uau!!!
It all started when I was job bored to death, bought my first MacBook (still have it!) and started cracking er… reversing stuff. At the time there wasn’t much RE information (and tooling) for Mac as there was for Windows.
And then I decided to quit, take an MBA because why not, and then missed a whole new career in management because of cultural misunderstandings (turns out that emailing Asian companies telling their processes are wrong isn’t well accepted).
Kept blogging and that got me back to InfoSec again by change. Travelled around the world speaking at conferences (some epic tales like 5+5 stops on a trip to China, zero flights missed, no bags lost, and insanely sick on return), trolled Apple, wrote tons of code (way more than I ever expected), went to Apple when I was pretty sure I wasn’t a fit at all (long story!), did some seriously fun and challenging reverse engineering consulting gigs, and so on. Essentially so many adventures because of a mere blog. Or why I tell people writing a blog is a powerful tool.
Hopefully to a few more years of blogging. I’m still kinda bored with most InfoSec and the AI bullshit isn’t helping much. I’m not sure I want to help train the LLMs. They can be useful tools but the hype and noise are too much and these “leaders” are not good people at all. I haven’t made my mind yet.
Enjoy and I hope you had as much fun (and learning) as I did.
Best,
fG!