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Re:Ask HN: Need Career Recommendations by WhiteBlueSkies on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @09:57AM (#34066727)
Let me guess, your father just happens to be doing security research himself and as destiny would have it your interests intertwined?
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Re:Ask HN: Need Career Recommendations by equatorium on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @10:12AM (#34066945)
No. I've started coding by my own at the age of 9, were playing the old gems of games, saw people developing cool stuff in games like Minecraft.

Got a java book for christmas, started learning and got into Minecraft development. At the age of 14, I started learning cpp, reverse engineering and a bit of ASM. Found a vulnerability in Epic Games by messing around with stuff, managed to report it and was rewarded, then I simply kept going and made security research to my hobby.

My family is not familiar with software, but with hardware, so I got my hands on a PC very early. No pressure tho.

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