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AMA with @0xteknogeek

Jul 26, 2018
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? My name is Joel Margolis aka teknogeek. I’m from Connecticut and New York and have been hacking for 10 years. I started out hacking when I was a kid by brute-forcing the family...
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AMA with @edoverflow

Mar 8, 2018
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? My name is Ed. I am a web designer, developer, and security researcher. I am currently studying computer science at the ETH Zürich and work for HackerOne as a security analyst...
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AMA with @securinti

Feb 27, 2018
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? I’m Inti De Ceukelaire from Oilsjt, Belgium. I grew up being a typical script kiddie browsing the web for hacks and cheats for the video games I played. Whenever I bought a new...
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AMA with @orange_8361

Feb 14, 2018
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? Hi, my name is Orange Tsai, come from Taiwan. I am 25 years old now. The first time I started to learn security is about 16. In web security, I love server-side vulnerabilities...
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AMA with @uraniumhacker

Oct 9, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? My name is uraniumhacker and in HackerOne I go with @uranium238. I am 17 years old and currently live in Los Angeles, California. I am originally from Nepal. I have been hacking...
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AMA with @mazen160

Oct 3, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? Mazin Ahmed. I’m originally from Sudan, and based in the United Arab Emirates. I started participating on bug bounty programs since 2013. I have been intrested in hacking and security...
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AMA with @arneswinnen

Sep 25, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? I’m Arne Swinnen from Belgium, 28 years old. I started hacking with the CTF-team of my University KU Leuven around 10 years ago. My bug bounty endeavours began in the summer of...
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AMA with @emgeekboy

Sep 19, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? I’m Sandeep Singh known by the handle ‘Geekboy’ and I’m from India. i got myself into hacking around 6 year ago when I decided to do to ethical hacking certification just for adding...
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AMA with @ngalongc

Sep 11, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? I am Ron Chan, a Hong Kong bug hunter. I started to learn about hacking in 2016 April, I have no clue where to start at that time, then I found an interesting online hacking course...
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AMA with @albinowax

Sep 5, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? I’m James ‘albinowax’ Kettle (it’s a long story), and I live beside the PortSwigger headquarters near Manchester, England. I’ve been bounty hunting for about seven years, since...
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AMA with @jackhcable

Aug 22, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? My name is Jack Cable and I’m from Chicago. I got into hacking by inadvertently finding a vulnerability in a financial site which allowed me to send negative amounts of money to...
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AMA with @darkieduck

Aug 14, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? I’m DarkieDuck, I am from the Netherlands and I have been hacking for the last 15 years or so. I started getting into hacking pretty soon after getting my first PC, being curious...
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AMA with @samwcyo

Jul 24, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? My in real life name is Sam but I go by “zlz” on HackerOne and Twitter. I’m from the central United States and I’ve been hacking for about three years now. I got started after...
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AMA with @0xibram

Jul 17, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? My name is Ibram Marzouk, and I usually go by @ibram or @0xibram. I’m 15 years old and currently living in Virginia. I started as a web developer about 4 years, but then got interested...
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AMA with @Zombiehelp54

Jul 10, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? My name is Mahmoud aka Zombiehelp54 from Egypt and I have been hacking since 2015. I started my technical career as a freelance web developer doing web tasks in my free time then...
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AMA with @zseano

Jul 5, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? My name is Sean and I go by zseano online. I’m currently based in United Kingdom and I have been hacking since I was around 13. I saw people creating chatbots and “winbots” for...
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AMA with @twitt3raccnt (psaux)

Jun 26, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? I’m psaux. I work as a full-time pentester/red-teamer in Australia and have been working in the field for about 10 years. I started my career as a network admin/engineer and soon...
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AMA with @_ruby

Jun 19, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? My name is Ruby although most hackers know me as rubyroobs, or the one with the anime profile picture on HackerOne! I’ve been hacking for 5 years, doing bounties since last June...
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AMA with @bbuerhaus

Jun 12, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? My name is Brett Buerhaus. I usually go by the handle bbuerhaus for everything security related but my online alias has been ziot for a long time. I currently live in California...
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AMA with @thedawgyg

Jun 5, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? My name is Tommy, I go by the alias dawgyg (@thedawgyg on twitter). I am from Richmond Virginia, in the US. I have been hacking off and on for a little over 20 years now, started...
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AMA with @jhaddix

May 29, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? My name is Jason Haddix, I am from Southern California and I have been hacking for 10 years. Ten years ago the internet was a very different place. I took a college course on...
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AMA with @darkarnium

May 22, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? My name is Peter Adkins, I live in Canada and go by Darkarnium on Bugcrowd, Twitter and the usual suspects. I’ve been interested in hacking for as long as I can remember; spending...
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AMA with @ZephrFish

May 15, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? Hi folks, I’m Andy also known on the internet as @ZephrFish or Zephr. I am from bonny Scotland, lovely part of the world if you’ve never been! I’ve been hacking for as long as...
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AMA with @fransrosen

May 9, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? My name is Frans Rosén, based in Stockholm, Sweden. I started of as a developer back in the days. A few years ago I met a bunch of friends that were involved a lot in the web security...
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AMA with @nahamsec

May 2, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? I am Ben Sadeghipour (Nahamsec), I’m based out of California and I have been hacking since I was a teenager. I was introduced to bug bounties by a friend who asked me why I don...
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AMA with @Yaworsk

Apr 25, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? Peter Yaworski and I go by the handle Yaworsk. I am from Toronto, Canada and I started hacking in December, 2015. Q: How did you get started? I was always interested in security...
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AMA with @jstnkndy

Apr 18, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? My name is Justin Kennedy, I generally go by jstnkndy or juken. I’m located on Boston, MA. I’ve been hacking since the early 2000’s. I started getting interested in “hacking” probably...
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AMA with @ITSecurityguard

Apr 11, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? My name is Patrik Fehrenbach I am from Germany and i live in the beautiful City of Freiburg located in southern germany near the black forest. I started hacking with about 14 years...
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AMA with @avlidienbrunn

Apr 5, 2017
Thank you for doing this interview! Can you please introduce yourself? I am Mathias Karlsson, from Sweden. I’ve been hacking for 12-13 years now. I started (trying at least) programming when I was 11, a year or so after I discovered IRC, wargames...
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