Faking It

[foxgrrl]

I don't really think that I'm a good photographer, and that I'm just pretending to be a good one by taking awesome looking pictures.

I don't really think that I'm a good hacker, and that I'm just pretending to be a good one by writing 0-day remote root exploits.

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[proudlyfallen.livejournal.com]

I actually JUST got over that. I've always loved working with computers, but stopped learning about them because, y'know, I just couldn't compete with the boys. (It didn't help that I was going to school with people who got perfect 1600's on the SATs... in eigth grade...)

But you know what? For every person who makes me look like a total idiot, there's another 10 people who make THEM look like a total idiot. And another 1000 that I make look like total idiots. You just deal, and remember that everyone had to start somewhere. (I started by hacking into our router this weekend, fixing everything my father and the guy who set up the network screwed over [c'mon, only giving out 4 dynamic IPs?! My father's running 3 computers, and I'm running 2...], and I did it mostly by myself, while the geeks who were supposed to be helping/teaching me sat around talking about god-knows-what. Sorry for the ramble, but I'm really proud of myself, and want to tell everyone, even random people who friend me on LJ. *wink*)

If it helps, I have no idea what 0-day means. So you're better than me.