[woko]

These two people are respectively 22 and 28 years old. They have spent their time in cyber-crime environments since their teenage years.

Respectively, a third of his life for the first one, and half of his life for the second one. And that is a lower bound.

The first one had an account on a cybercrime forum 8 years ago, so he was 14!

> These last two nicknames correspond to accounts on several top cybercrime forums way back in 2013.

The second one had an account 13 years ago, so he was 15. Wow!

> [T]hat forum’s database says a user by the name “Damnating” registered with the forum in 2008.

[gavinray]

I have a SQL Injection tutorial on Youtube with ~150,000 views, that I recorded when I was 13 or so I think.

Had been doing code-stuff and hanging out on hackforums.net for a few years at that point.

My voice is prepubescent in the video hahaha:

  "(Tutorial) - Hack a Website With SQL Injection"
  147,745 views, Jun 26, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z1rt9Y-ON0

I come back every few years to check on it, I found this comment particularly wild:

  rispettoPrograms: 2 years ago
  "this helped me to pass a Certified Secure test!"

Thought I wanted to do Cybersecurity stuff when I was young, but as it turns out, when you're a young teenager "Cybersecurity" just sounds cool.

Nowadays I build CRUD apps, and CRUD app accessories ;^)

[asjfj9]

This is great. Wish I had started programming earlier in my life (started when I was 23).

[mdrzn]

I also used to have accounts on plently of cheating forums back in the days, most have gone offline now.

Those places were the starting point to have a deep interest in IT, memory editing, and more broadly cracking.