The Imposter's Guide to Hacking Without Technical Talent

All right, great. So, I just want to introduce our keynote. We're very, very excited to have Jason E. Street. So, welcome him to the stage and he'll be doing uh our keynote for this year. [applause] And thank you everyone. Appreciate all all your effort and time coming here. Really appreciate it.

Hello. Hello. Yep. I was like, I'll clap now, but trust me, it's like uh so uh this is my uh not my typical uh legal disclaimer that I usually have when I give talks. It's like I still do remember the kittens. Uh this one's a little bit different. Um, I hate this talk. This is not a talk I like giving. Uh, it's a talk, uh, I should be giving. It's a talk that, to be honest with you, when you hear it, it's like on certain topics, you're going to go, you're not qualified to be speaking on this matter. And you know what? You're absolutely right. I shouldn't be the one speaking on it. The people that are qualified to speak

on it, no one's going to listen to usually. So, it's going to take me to say it. And it's like, and I'm not going to say it. Well, so that's what that disclaimer is. It's like, I will have no problem with you disagreeing with how I say something or deliver the message. I'm not I'm fine with that. If you have a problem with the way the things that I'm saying and the truth that I'm laying out and the facts that I'm giving, f you. That's on you. You want to talk about that later. It's like, you know, move me outside. How about that? It's like cuz I'm saying it with my full chest and you need to understand that.

So, just to set your expectations up. low. I'm going to be Debbie Downer the whole time. But the best part about that is we can only go up from there. So, I'm sure it's like I'm glad we got this out of the way. Um, so, um, also just one other thing too to understand something. Um, and I just heard this this this morning and it actually changed my talk. Um, paraphrasing Carl Jung, but when it says when you judge others, you judge yourself. And I'm not trying to judge anyone. I'm not trying to talk at you and say that you're the problem or saying that this applies to you. I'm going to talk to you about how

things are and how they shouldn't be and give you examples. But I'm not judging anyone. This is not out of a place of contempt or contempt of like and trust me my glass house has no glass intact because when I LAUNCH THOSE MOTHERING ROCKS at you I'm doing it through my glass. Okay? I'm doing it through my wall first because I acknowledge the fact that I'm not perfect. I am guilty of everything that I talk about as I've grown up. So, it's not from a place of higher. It's like, don't be me always. That's what I've always said. Be better. So, now I got that out of the way. Let's get worse. Uh, this is the name of the talk. Um, it

the real name of the talk is how Mr. Rogers is a hacker. And you're thinking like, what? Trust me. Give me a time. And this is in Pittsburgh. It's like so it's like I was in Pittsburgh and I saw this statue of Mr. Rogers and I was like, "Wow, that is awesome. That is an epic statue. I'm If you're going to have any kind of statue and and you know, memorial to Mr. Rogers, why not have it as a T-Rex?" Um, so I think that's awesome. And uh I'm going to explain to you basically through then you'll realize why I say that he's a hacker and one of the best hackers we've ever had. Who am I? Does

it really matter? Because it's not about me. It's like this is about everything that's been going on. So, uh, screw that noise. Um, and this is a question I often ask myself. I'm a poser. It's like I'm like someone who doesn't have like any high school dropout, used to live behind a dumpster. It's like uh literally it's like I am not an expert at anything except for acting and faking my way through life so people think that I'm an actual adult when I'm like five raccoons in a in an adult suit. Okay. Uh and it's not a very good it's not a very good disguise because it's it's pretty obvious. Um, and and I get some of these

uh questions and I I love some of the way these I don't like walk standing by the podium. It's like I love some of these questions where it says from James here, "Your work experience is pathetic and you're one hell of a con man. >> I social engineer." That's part of the job description. Thank you. It's like, here's another one, bro. You're a fake fraud and BSer. YOUR LINKEDIN SHOWS NOTHING BUT FAKE companies created out of thin air. I know what it looks like to see someone barely able to keep up with today's world. Retire now, you effing dinosaur. Okay. F you. Uh, dinosaurs are awesome. We just established that already. Okay. Uh, second of all, I can't help it that

legitimate companies called like Pony Express and True Sec, uh, not True Sec, yeah, TRSE, uh, Swedish company, they were silly enough to allow me to use my own titles, create my own titles. So, that's the reason why I'm the infosc ranger from Pony Express and the chief chaos uh, officer of TRUE. And I'm now currently the chief adversarial officer at another company. It's like um and also this other one I like is um I feel like Jason Street is a fraud who's about to be exposed for being too noob to do asset. Just a hunch. Just a hunch. Dude, I spent my whole career telling you I was a fraud and I don't know what

I'm doing. I've literally one OF MY CATCHPHRASES, THIS STUFF'S SO EASY even I can do it. Pay attention people. >> You can I don't mind you hating me. Trust me. It's like there's there's a lot OF PEOPLE THAT ARE GOOD AT IT. Do better. >> Oh, wait. I got to run over and do the lights now. Okay, here we go. Professional. See, so let's look at some of this professional stuff that I can do. We got this talk right here is uh when I'm talking about how to attack people, it's like you got you got to see I got to show you my skill sets. I attack via kindness using an Am I creating uh some kind of

advanced zero day to take someone out? Nope. I take an OMG cable, go to the repository, hack together a little script that's already pre-done and just edit it to the way I want it in a text file, load it up, and I connect the cable to my hearing aids. It's like I was in a car accident several years ago and I required hearing aids because uh just a word of advice, never listen to rap music at full volume with the windows up and then have your airbag deploy. They deploy at 170 del FYI. Uh it's not a great experience. I don't recommend it. Uh so I now have hearing aids. But let's see what you can

do with them. Uh audio. Is there audio?

Um hello audio people. >> Okay.

It gets and trust me and you're thinking that it's bad now. We haven't really started yet. Oops. Yep. There's no audio going on right now.

I'm just making sure everything's right on my end. There we go. Okay. How are we doing today? Okay. Um, it's just me talking a lot. We're going to see if we get a we can get it by the time we get to the next one. Uh this is from a YouTube uh where I'm basically explaining to this guy in the blue suit, a total serious lawyer, trust me. Um about how I use kindness uh to rob people. Cuz I go up to someone and I'm like I'm too. It's like, "Hello, I'm I I'm trying to go to a meeting and my hearing aids they're they're not uh they're not charging. I got I got to hear from my

hearing power. My hearing gau I can't use the power from the the cord. I need low power from the computer. Can I charge on on your computer?" What monster is not going to let me charge my hearing aids? >> And you're thinking, Jason, that's horrible. Uh, I'M TRYING TO ROB YOU. WE'VE ESTABLISHED MY MORAL FIBER. YOU'RE being robbed. Would you prefer a gun? I'VE ROBBED A BUILDING IN A WHEELCHAIR BEFORE. I'M ROBBING YOU. I AM A HORRIBLE person theoretically. My second one, and hopefully we're still getting someone to work with the audio because the next demo is going to be even more exciting. I can say that because I don't know if the audio is

going to work. So, I can just tell you it was exciting and you had to believe me. Uh that other the first slide I told you I was a liar, but you know, trust me, it was totally awesome. Um but the next one is I attacked by curiosity. No major hacking skills. I ACTUALLY NEEDED a custom payload. Lord knows I wasn't going to do it. I TRIED TO CODE. I TRIED TO LEARN TO CODE WITH MY 12-YEAR-OLD. I went and did um I went and did this with the uh with my 12-year-old. We learned that book from No Stars Press, the uh Python, learning Python with Minecraft. Yeah, that's a great book. That's where I learned I SUCK AT PYTHON AND

MINECRAFT. [laughter] SO, WOW. Thanks for that. It's like, so I had to go to uh my friend Ton. Uh he he calls it Titan, but he's French, so I always go Tong because it sounds, you know, classier. Um and my friend Ton, he built the code for me. that mother. I we went on this one uh assignment where we literally robbed uh all these different banks in three different countries within a week. And this guy would start out in the morning going after their network from the computer. By lunch, he was domain admin every single place that we went. He's amazing. He's the scariest, nicest hacker that you don't know because he does this thing. What's it called? Work.

[laughter] Instead of being on social and worrying about, you know, his cred, worrying about which talks he's giving, he does the work like 95% of the other people that are in this room that are doing the job that keeps us protected every day. It's like, so I got him to write the code for me and we put it on my drone. I'm not a major great drone flyer. I know that comes as a surprise to a lot of people. Uh, I usually just like to fly my drone up and I have it go do a circle and I bring it back down. You can see a lot of mine on YouTube. It's like videos. It's like um because a lot of

the drones are really great shots at really cool places that was totally illegal to fly. But my drones also hacked and disregard no fly zones. Uh, and so I got some great footage that, you know, I'm not going back to certain countries, uh, so it doesn't matter. Um, but yes, um, some great footage, but you know what I use the drone for in this engagement? I crash it. >> Not hard because it's like I I love this drone. Okay. It's like I don't want to break it. It's like I I I don't mind break gambling with my life, but not like my my equipment. That costs something. That's worth something. So, uh, no, I take it to the the about midle

and I fly it into the door, lobby door, 7:30 at night or by the guard booth. And then what happens? Security comes around. They see the drone and they're like, "Someone was failing. Someone was doing something. What was on this thing?" It's like they're recording. what kind of video that we got to go and investigate. So, they take the E my There it's two ways that that they've done it, but the main one that I love the best is there's a USBC port on the uh drone. So, they plugged it into their security computer, you know, with all the cameras and access badge systems and they plugged it in to watch the video. There was only two files on the

hard drive of this drone. one said pilot information and drone serial number uh DCOX is from Microsoft so it's got to be safe and u then DJIOV uh one uhov which you know had to be legit as well there we go and then you you double click on any one of those files and you get Rick rolled Because Rick Ashley has done more for security awareness in this industry than any other program ever made. Okay. And then as SOON AS YOU CLOSE THE THE VIDEO, it comes with a little command prompt that says, "You've been puned." I know. I know you didn't pop cow, Jason. I'm not that cool. Okay. I just decided to do the stereotype because I'm a

poser, so I just did you've been poed. Um, now the next one is I attack via routine. And how do I do that? I use different sound effects. I use YouTube. I use the uh PBX app. And then I do some googling because then I make phone calls and the app lets me change the phone number to be any number I want it to be. Never the White House or, you know, the FBI because that would be against the law. and hilarious, but uh I would never do that. But I can be anything uh I I can call from anybody I want to be. Uh so let's hear one of these right here to a cat. Can we turn that up?

>> Temp password. >> User, you don't have you don't have access to your email, right? >> Uh not right now. until I get everything back up this I mean the doctor said that the chemo was going to mess with my memory but I just didn't know it was going to be this bad >> I got I apologize about that I'm sure we needed to figure it out for you >> I I do appreciate it thank you >> no problem anything else you can do >> that'll be it that's all I need I love the fact that he actually was like apologizing dude you didn't give me cancer because fine it's like you know I'm not blaming you it's like uh I I've

had cancer before, so I'm not appropriating. Okay, it's like, so don't don't get too judgy. Remember the kittens. Uh, so, uh, here's the next one. I love this one. This one was great because, um, I needed to, uh, Rob, uh, whenever I do an engagement, I always like to give them a win. They always make sure that the clients at least get one win. We talk about that because it's like, you can't just show them all the ways they did wrong. You should show them how someone did something the right way. And so we we tried to make it work. So the client was like, "Hey, well, if you're going to want to get something

that you'll probably not succeed at, uh, why don't you take try to take over this woman's account?" Okay, I'll try. You know, it's like, uh, so I decided to go after it. Um, I did some Google researching, realized that she works for her husband. Um, he was around 40 years old, um, which is younger than me. And I decided like, hey, I'm going to turn him into an 80year-old. And she's in the hospital because we were at my son-in-law's house in the winter up north. Y'all, y'all understand that. And she slid on the stairs. They were iced over cuz my son-in-law didn't deise the stairs like a [ __ ] that he is. And so I

had to talk to the uh thing and you should hear the hospital sounds in the background as I talk to him about my problem. >> I'm giving her an account or two to make her feel, you know, like she's working and pulling her own and stuff. I know it's that that nepotism stuff, but it's like it it's not a bad thing. I'm working with security on this to see what we can do at least for your wife's account. That being said, I still want you to try and log into VMware and see if you can find that file anywhere in the shared drive. >> In the S drive, you would have access. >> All right. Where is the the VMware?

>> Is it a Do you see a green and white cloud icon on there? >> The It's the cloud's blue. It's a one drive. [laughter] >> Not that. We want VMware Horizon. Is there a search bar that you can see anywhere where you can type in VMware Horizon? >> Um the search bar where is that? Is that on like on the browser like Google? Do you want me to Google it? >> No. So on the very bottom of the screen, there should be like a box that has like a magnifying glass on it. You have to >> Oh, yeah. The the magnifying glass. I see that. >> Yep. Click on that. And I want you to

type in VMware in that. VMware. Okay. Open that up. It It's not show It showed me a website. I could have done that in the Google. [laughter] >> Okay, so we don't want the Google. We want the actual VMware. Should be a green and white cloud icon. If you don't see that, >> no, >> he was on the call with me like that 40 [snorts] minutes. >> Yeah. MVP territory there. I've done help desk calls. I would have closed h closed in close that guy quick. 40 minutes. He was empathetic. He was professional. He was polite. He was kind. And he did not deviate from security policy. He was amazing. >> [applause] >> And if you're a red teamer and you're

not celebrating when your client does well, you suck. Because the only REASON WHY YOU EXIST is to make the blue team better. Your job is not to break vulner break things and find vulnerabilities. Your job is to validate their security and give them suggestions on how to improve that security. That's the job. Oh, there we go. [snorts] There we go. Okay. Now, what's my tools of the trade? What was my big skills? I talked a lot. I got a credit card and I know where Amazon and hackfive.org are and I know how to do the sales. Zero skills, people. It's almost like I'm a fraud or I I'm a noob and I'm not good at

apps. Imagine that. Quite a few people do, it seems. Does it matter? Did I still get in? I don't CARE HOW GOOD YOUR ZERO DAYS ARE. IF I CAN WALK IN THE front door without knowing anybody and get access to a computer within 15 seconds to compromise it and then get the manager to walk me to every single machine AND COMPROMISE 100% of every machine on the premise. I don't really need your zero days. I don't really need your leakness. And that was actually on video. So, I'm I'm not exaggerating. That's how that is, but it's not special. That didn't make me a hacker. The tools, the Python, Lord knows it's not the Python. It's like that stuff doesn't

make me or you a hacker. It's something we're born with. This is a rant that I did a while back. Watch that one. It's like you want to know more about the hackers. I don't have time. But you know what else? AN AUDIENCE DOESN'T MAKE ME AN EXPERT. Having views and likes don't make me smarter. Having a great YouTube presence doesn't make me an authority that you need to listen to. THERE ARE THOUSANDS of people in this industry that WITH MY WHOLE JET, I WILL TELL YOU ARE WAY BETTER THAN I AM. And I'm okay with that. But they're not they don't have the views like I do or they don't get invited or the opportunities.

Why does that make them, you know, different? Someone you shouldn't listen to. Why does that make me special? Exactly. It doesn't. Those are just a good recommendation of quite a few people that you should be following and listening to that do really great jobs. There's a lot of people out there. Just because you see them on a stage or you see them on a YouTube page or on a social media doesn't mean they're the know all and end all of what a subject matter expert supposed to be. go and find people here to listen to and to talk to that can only give you a signal user ID to connect with or a group to connect

with on discord and you can share ideas and learn from them because those are other good avenues to learn. That's why you're here at conferences like this to do that kind of networking. And please understand that even here you have been blessed and privileged to have the opportunity to be here on a weekday for the day to learn and to network. Opportunity is some of the main reasons why we are where we are. Not from the skills or what we've learned or what we've done. Just the opportunity, just a random luck. There are people on this planet right now who are smart enough and have the the ability if they were given the opportunity to

cure cancer to come up with the newest quantum encryption. But they're never going to do it because they strip ships on the coast of Africa or their farm hands in Mumbai. they're never going to have that opportunity because that's also key. Doesn't matter about the skills. If you don't have the opportunity, you don't take it. So, don't take this for granted. Don't take where you're at and the abilities that you have for granted. Other people would love to have the problems you're dealing with now. I am dealing with problems now in my life that 20 years ago I was praying for the situation that led to them. That was a deep one, Jason. Thank you.

Um, now we're going to do my next demo. You thought those other three demos were good? I'm about to show you a live social engineering Trojan horse attack because now we're going to get to the root of the talk because it has nothing to do with the freaking offensive and breaking stuff. But I need to have offensive breaking stuff in it to get to hacker conferences so I could talk. Uh, so I made it look like it was going to be a hacker talk and then now I'm just going to rant at you and scream at you for the rest of this talk. So, yay. And trust me, if you want to walk out, I

I've had that every single time. I don't mind. It's cool. Um, but let's get it with it. Being a hacker also means having the courage to speak out when you see something broken, plus the hacker's mindset to go about uh fixing it and making it better before uh better uh for everyone. Do we know who these two people are? Lord, I hope you do because if you don't, you've got research to do. The one on the left, Dan Kaminski, he he he saved the internet. He found a DNS because it's always DNS. And he found a DNS vulnerability that would have taken down the internet. And before he gave the talk at Black Hat and got on stage and gave out cookies

because that was Dan's things with his mom's cookies. They were great. If you didn't have one, you missed out. and he got together with all the major tech companies, I can the root servers and he fixed the problem before the vulnerability was announced before he went and got claim to fame. That's the kind of he was literally created an app to help people for that are color blind. He was an amazing human being and he passed and we lost such a valued member of our community because it wasn't just about him finding the vulnerabilities. It was him taking the time to help people, to reach out to people. from all walks of life, from all

different social media statuses. It didn't matter what your follower count was. You met him, you talked to him, you had a friend and everybody loved him. He's in Internet Hall of Fame. He was great. He did a great service speaking out about a vulnerability that helped keep the internet going, keeping the business going, keeping the the the memes going, keeping the kitten uh pictures going. All great. What about Aaron Schwarz? He saw something wrong. a system, an organization that was using education and knowledge that should have been free to just capitalize on people who couldn't afford it because they were in school and they were struggling and they didn't matter. And he tried to fix that problem.

So the government hounded him to death. He's not as known or as cool. I guess I never got to meet him in person. We've lost heroes. Both of those people, no matter how much they're celebrated or how much they're known, didn't do it for that. They did it because it was right. And that's what we have to do as well. It's like part of our job in cyber security is telling people in power things they don't want to hear. That was one of the things I TOLD THE CIO OF THE BANK I worked at. Part of my job is to tell you things because he said, "Jason, you say no a lot." And I'm like, "YEAH,

IF I START JUST AGREEING WITH EVERYTHING YOU COME UP WITH, FIRE ME. I mean you harm." And so the rest of this talk, it's like I've always heard there are certain things you're not supposed to talk about in public. Race religion politics. Don't worry, okay? I don't want to alarm anybody. I'm going to talk about all three of those, but I'm going to throw some misogyny in, so it's an equal four. Okay? So, we're gonna cover all of them. Don't worry, I'll get to that part. If you're thinking, I can't believe he said that. Trust me. Hold on, buttercup. Let's start with race. A lot of people get all uncomfortable talking about that. Remember the part

where I said, "I'm not qualified to speak about these things." Yeah, basically. But this YouTube video was amazing. It was a youth coach who lined everybody up and he said, "We're racing for $100, but before we start, I'm going to ask you some questions. Do you come from a two parent home? People that raised their hands, take two steps forward. Did you ever have to worry about where your uh meal was coming from or going hungry for a day? didn't take two steps forward. Did you ever have to help with the income in your family and making money to help support your family? If you never had to do that, take two steps forward. Guess what?

That line was not even anymore. Some people had a really head big head start, but everybody had to run the same race. And some people that were far behind STILL MANAGED TO GET UP THERE, but they weren't the ones that won. So, I'm not saying you're a bad person because you've had certain advantages that you didn't control. My youngest came up to me one time in school. It was a 2021 cuz they were wearing a BLM mask and it was showing in sign language cuz they knew sign language and translating and it was in sign language with different shades of the hands. And this girl came up to them and said, "Well, I've experienced racism.

What about [snorts] me? What about white lives?" And my youngest asked me that because they're a critical thinker and they're like, "I don't know. I didn't have an answer for that. What the what is the answer?" And I had to explain it to them very simply. When I was in Beijing once at 10:00 at night, I could not get a cab. I waited over 30 minutes trying to get a taxi driver to stop for me to get in to get a cab. One time I was walking on the streets of Cairo and I saw up on the overpass two guys looking at me and pointing at me and saying some stuff like, "Yeah, I I'm

very good at reading body language and facial expression and I really didn't have to be to get the message." And I started running, you know, and getting out of the way. It's I was like, I don't even want this drama, you know? It's like I'm not going to catch that smoke. So, I left. That was individual racism. I experienced individual racism during that. What they're talking about is the systemic racism that is ingrained in our society because that's what the problem is. White Lives Matter. WHEN DID I BECOME A CRAYON IN A COLORING BOOK? I have I'm from Welsh. Heritage. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH CELEBRATING YOUR HERITAGE. I'm from Welsh. I know people that are Irish except for like,

you know, on St. Patrick's Day, everybody's Irish. But it's like I know a lot of people that know their heritage. Most European Americans in this country know their heritage. They know where their ancestors came from. But our society has stolen that from a group of people where they don't know what part of the continent they came from. They didn't know what village they came from. We stole that heritage. All they had was a color. You don't get to say white. uh lives matter because it's not a color. You have a heritage. When you only give someone a color, you got to let them be proud of it. You're the one that gave them the label.

Cuz it's all about perception. I'm not saying I'm about to I'm going to trip. That's going to be hilarious for all the people. But it's like it's all about perception. None of this makes you a bad person. It's just us perceiving the problems. And we need to just take a step to look at how someone else perceives something. And that brings us to another thing that we have a problem sometimes perceiving.

I hate this phrase. We got to get women in tech. We need women in tech. We got to have women in. That is the stupidest phrase I've ever heard in our industry. And I've dealt with the blockchain and zero trust with AI. Okay? YOU DON'T WANT WOMEN IN TECH. Be for real. BE ACCURATE. BE TRUTHFUL. The proper phrase is you want women back in tech. THEY MUST STARTED THIS INDUSTRY IN THE 60S. They started it >> because NO ONE WANTED THE JOB. SO YOU GAVE IT TO PEOPLE OF COLOR. YOU GAVE IT TO WOMEN of color. That's why we HAVE PEOPLE ON THE MOON NOW. But then in the 70s, well, some guys found out, oh, people

can make some money with this. Okay, we can handle it now, Lois. You you you're okay. We'll we'll take it over now. So now you're trying to get them back. Be for real. This my friend Lindsay. We went to a conference. She was having a conversation with this guy. Soon as I got up to the table. He literally mids sentence stopped talking to her because she no longer existed and turned to me and started having a conversation with me because she was just with me. She was just a she was just a girl that I was with. It's like she wasn't important. She has as much experience in cyber security that I do except for she has

executive function. So she's actually an executive. She's worked at national and international banks in Hong Kong, South Africa, and the Netherlands. But to most guys at the conference, she was with the speaker. You don't assume that the girl I'm with or the guy I'm with or whoever I'm with is there because they're with me. They're there because they're a little hacker and they DESERVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF RESPECT. And I keep hearing, "Oh, well, I had to stand up and do something because I mean I have I have daughters or I have a sister. I have I DON'T CARE. HOW THE does that matter? YOU DON'T TRY TO STAND UP FOR SOMEONE BECAUSE YOU HAVE SOMEONE THAT YOU CAN

IDENTIFY WITH LIKE THEY'RE another category and you're familiar with that category. YOU DO IT BECAUSE THEY'RE A HUMAN being and it's the right thing to do.

THAT'S HOW YOU BECOME AN ALLY. One of the main THINGS THAT YOU DO AS AN ALLY IS SHUT THE UP. [laughter] I'M THE WORST EXAMPLE OF AN ALLY THAT I'M UP HERE. YEAH, BUT THEN EVERYBODY WILL STEP IN. I'M NOT QUALIFIED TO BE TALKING ABOUT. Do better than me. ALSO, AMPLIFY THE VOICES. YOU don't retweet. You don't quote retweet it and then make sure your message is heard above theirs. You just retweet their message. You just give them a chance to speak. You just talk to let them talk. Let them use your your voice and your amplification. That's how you do that. Mr. Rogers did it all the time. So, I'm going to do another demo. I love

this one. This is my uh live social engineering privilege escalation attack via remote access. Okay. It's really awesome because I've donated uh at least 10 minutes of my time to someone that doesn't usually get to have a voice that doesn't have the same kind of voice or reach that I have. So, I've asked them to give a video. And I've done this at all the different conferences, different people, and I've had them talk. So, now we're going to have this demonstration. >> Thank you, Jason. Thank you for thinking of us. Thank you for putting so many beautiful human qualities out there. Uh showing the world that you can be super cool but at the same time super kind.

And I think one beautiful way for any individual with any type of skill, especially technology, but any type of skill, cooking, um I don't know, origami, anything to go to your own local library and offer your services there. Go to the person who's in charge of taking um you know, creating programs. there's always someone in there and tell them, hey, I'm a cyber security engineer and I would love to start um a little security program here. maybe just meeting one um once every two weeks or once a month for two hours or an hour and I would love to share with people I don't know and you choose the topic you know something that you think

people might might like you know suggestions are for beginners how to uh how to use chat GPT for the elderly how to use um excel I mean for those that that work with excel um basics of cyber security or how to stay safe out there or how to keep our children more secure, how to surf the web in a secure way. I mean, ask track GPT for ideas and go and email your local library. And if they don't reply, email again. If they don't reply back, go there and say, "I'm very interested. Um, I work in the industry." If you have some of the skills that you will like the community like that's how I built my organization. I built my

organization who um by the way let me talk a little bit more about that um my organization is called GIA community um it's composed of two uh two different brands one GIA cyber and um grace and action grace and action is that it's it doesn't have a religious u background it's just I really like the word grace it means unmmerited help and I really wanted to embody that um I have I personally come come from a background of um of war, a lot of violence, a lot of drug trafficking, uh human trafficking, and just always being afraid of my surroundings, right? Like I come from one of the longest civil wars in history in Colombia. Um but that also

shaped me to understand that across the globe, we all have the same basic needs. No matter the color of our skin, the type of accent that we have or we speak in the same language like what like it doesn't matter like if you if you look at the back I don't know if it's legible this world was made for you and me like when I became a social worker over 10 years ago and now that I'm in cyber security but 10 let's go back 10 years ago um again it just became that idea that we're all the same. we all have the same exact basic needs. Um, and to me when I when I embarked it on on a

journey of healing for my own healing for for the experiences that I had growing up in in such a violent environment and also situations that happened in my life when I came to the United States, I was just I I was I was caught in this I guess in this cycle of just a difficult situation after the young one for a very very long time. Um and I got to say I I think it was technology what really you know highpaying skills um what really set the tone for a different dynamic moving forward in my life. But before technology was this idea of service, this idea of it doesn't matter how I feel, it doesn't matter how little I

know, there's always something that I can support others with. So I started realizing that local libraries are a very great way to start anything. One because they do their own marketing for you. So you don't have to go and find people to come to the to your event or or to come to your talk or to come to your workshop. The library does that for you. There's centralized system that they have connections with some of the you know some of some old and local organizations. And I said, "Wow, I can really amplify my voice and amplify my impact just by supporting library."

He's supporting us with um with the Raspberry Pi Foundation. I mean, I'm just so grateful grateful to have people that are saying to so many of us in so many ways, how can I help? I really hope this video is of service to you all. And thank you, Jason, again. >> [clears throat] >> When I gave instructions for people to submit the video, it was specifically to talk and showcase the work that they're doing, what they wanted to talk about, what research they were doing. She spent most of her time talking about how you can help. The importance of all of us helping. That's how she used her time was to talk about the community to reach

out to other people in your community. That's what was more important to her than, oh, I've done this shiny thing or I'm researching on this project. That's what it's about and that's why it's important. You're thinking that was nice. Don't worry, we're getting to the politics now. Um, you know, Mr. Rogers was a Republican. Why you say it like that? Because it doesn't matter. Republican Democrat Libertarian. Lord, I'm sick of every one of them. Okay? It's like, but listen, look at these quotes from Reagan. I can say in the same breath that Barack Obama was a great president and also he was a coward who did not endorse the Belgium Accords from 94 during the Crimea attack when it first

happened. And he was a jerk for doing that because it shouldn't be about my team. It shouldn't be about what's right and what's wrong. I am totally not invested in my political leaders. Their job just to do their job and me complain about it because I have to pay taxes. That's it. I'm we got to get past that and see that at the end of the day, no matter what political party you are on, you're on that you're on that stance because you want what's best for this country. So, I'm okay with that. At the end of the day, we may disagree with how we want that, but we still have to acknowledge that we

both want the same thing, which is what's best for this country. We just disagree on what that is or how to get to it. We need to GET BACK TO THAT place to where we were a beacon on the hill. We need to start realizing that the person that is sitting next to you is not in Congress or in the White House. They're your neighbor. They're the people that you should be really caring about, the people that you should really be rooting for to succeed. Those are the people that matter. We need to get back to that. Also, by the way, Reagan was one of the first ones that was all about granting amnesty to illegal aliens.

You know, I said it right. Right. That's the way you're supposed to say it. Yeah. That's what he wanted to do. And what about compassion? Why are we using religion as a way to show not compassion to show and and justify our hate? Oh, I by the way I did it from uh four different books. It's like I did it from the Old Testament uh for our our Jewish friends. I did it from the New Testament for our Christian friends. I did it from the Quran for our Islamic friends and I did it from in Hindus script uh for our Buddhist and Hindu uh friends because believe it or not this country was not founded on one religion. It's about all

of them. It's about that independence and that freedom to have whichever or none. But it all at the end of the day ultimately if you look hard enough at every one of them the message is simple. I created you. You were created by me. Love and take care of the world and the gifts and the people I've given you and love them like I love you. Why did we forget the assignment? And then I'm almost done. He's about to drag me off. Almost done, but I'm not stopping. When we talk about compassion and religion, where was it here? When you make people into labels, it makes them easier to hate, which makes it easier to blame them for your

failings and misfortune. That leads to believing their lives don't count or matter. And I just will reiterate with Exodus 22:21, do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt. And Matthew 10:14, when he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, departed into Egypt. That was Joseph. So, I want to close with this simple, no, not closing, but I'm almost done. But I want to close this section with one simple fact. I'm a Christian. So that means that my personal Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that I pray to every day was a brownskinned Middle Eastern immigrant and political refugee who was persecuted unjustly by a government until he was murdered for his beliefs.

That's who I pray to. And I always remember that too as well. And you see the internet and social media and our discourse just in general at the grocery store or wherever. Has it gotten any better? I look at all these comments and first of all, they are funny. Come on, let's be honest. I mean, seriously, I I love a couple of these. It's like guy looks 40 but dresses like he's 13 in 2009. AND I'M LIKE WHY THANK YOU. My lord, I wished I WAS THAT YOUNG. THAT WAS VERY GENEROUS OF YOU, SIR. YEAH, I'm pretty sure it was a sir. This dude is annoying as hell. Oh yeah, trust me. FEMINISM FEMINISM RUINS EVERYTHING,

INCLUDING HACKERS. OKAY. [snorts] Uh I can take this guy seriously with all the rings and bracelets and necklaces. BUT IT'S CALLED ACCESSORIZING. LEARN IT. AND HE SAID LIKE ANOTHER ONE SAYS LIKE HE'S GOT RINGS ON EVERY FINGER AND ALL THIS OTHER CREEP. My trigger finger does not have a ring on it. Please take note. Okay, just saying. And this one is like I am um I'm available for hire if anybody wants to take this arrogant, you know, out of the loop. And I'm like come on please. I survived my first murder attempt when I was 10. Two others before I WAS 25. COME. I JUST EXPECT A BETTER CLASS of villain. Okay, come on. I have plenty OF ENEMIES. JUST DO

BETTER. I mean, me being this old should be a warning to people at this point. But you know what I feel ultimately about those people? I don't see critics. I don't see enemies. I see hurt people. Because hurt people hurt people. When I was in my 20s, I had a choice. I could be the monster I was raised and trained to be, cuz I was a horrible person back then. I could have been that monster, but I chose to be the person that takes out the monsters, the ones that protect others from the monsters. [snorts] We can all make that choice. A lot of those people made the wrong choice. You don't have to be the monster. You

don't have to be the one that hurts just because you're hurt. We have to remember that as well. Mr. Rogers hated children's television. He did. He's on record for saying it. He hated children's television. And why is he a hacker? Because he fixed it. He saw a problem and said, "This doesn't work. I'm going to create a children's television show and do it the right way like a hacker should as a hacker. And every one of you are cuz we were born hackers. Every one of you have the power to be whatever you want to be in this world. Why not choose to be kind first?

Oh, I'm done. Seriously, that's just I'm done. Thanks, [applause]