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Everybody and welcome equals lecture.

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And right now what we're going to do is we're going to talk about what was my personal path.

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I got where I am right now.

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What jobs did it take.

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What path did I take.

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And what was the first thing that I did.

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Once I started trying to get the actual career and actual my first job in ethical hacking field.

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OK.

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So first of all uh I've known ethical hacking since like five years.

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Once it started off as a hobby I basically was interested in I watched a lot of movies.

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I was actually interested in learning how to do that because it seemed like an actual uh good skill

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to have.

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It seemed like an actual interesting skill to have.

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And therefore uh I didn't really started off because of actually having a career one day in that field

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uh or for actually earning any money in that field.

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But that's how it turned out.

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So I started off as a hobby basically.

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I learned something on YouTube.

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I basically search for Catalina extend in stock to machines.

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Then I learned on different voting machines then bought my first laptop then I installed Linux on it

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and basically on programming and learned everything I need in order to become an ethical hacker.

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And then around two years ago uh I decided why not try to make some money using these actual field ethical

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hacking field.

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So what I started off is a little bit interesting because uh it's not really that usual.

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And it does really work at least in my case.

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I decided why not give private lessons from ethical hacking.

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Now that is something that I haven't seen anyone do especially in my country where I usually see math

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classes physics classes and some other usual classes that you see every time and then I decided well

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maybe people would be interested in order to have an ethical hacking class because that is something

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that is still taboo as is for most of the people.

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And therefore I decided to print out around 1000 papers saying that I am offering classes and then I

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put it in a certain city for each building and on my surprise I set the price to be around twenty dollars

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an hour or something like that.

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I can't even remember which in my case or in my country is a really high price for an hourly rate.

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And I was and I was thinking that not many people will actually reach out to me to have an actual lesson.

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Uh and that was basically a mistake once I actually uh put every paper out.

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Basically the next day over 30 people already applied to have an ethical hacking lesson.

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It was a good investment.

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I was giving basically private lessons for uh twenty dollars an hour.

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I taught people how they can hack wireless networks how they can hack social media accounts how they

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can basically hack systems create back towards coding python and so on and so on.

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Now from my personal experience what most people want wanted to if you for example decide that you want

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to do this the same way you want to give people private lessons.

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Most people will contact you because they want to learn how to hack either wireless networks.

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That was one of the most things that people desired or the social media accounts such as Instagram and

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Facebook.

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That's also some of the things that people really wanted to know.

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Of course you need to make sure to specify to them that all of that stuff is illegal unless you have

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actual permission.

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You can teach them that but what they do with that knowledge is only on them.

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You basically only mentioned that it is illegal that they shouldn't do it and that you are only here

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for the educational purposes and therefore what they do with the knowledge that they learn is their

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own problem.

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OK.

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Now you might be asking why didn't really share it online.

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Well basically uh in my country.

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Most of the private lessons are actually labeled like that.

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So someone actually creates a few hundred papers and puts it out somewhere in the public and therefore

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he puts his phone number or email addresses and basically basically any contact information and then

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these students contact them for private lessons.

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That's what I did right here.

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And it actually worked really well.

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And not that long ago or not that long after that I basically joined a team of our private cybersecurity

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company that actually offers cybersecurity packages to different companies or different firms that need

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them.

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Now that is also another thing that you should do and that you've tried to do.

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It is also it's always good to create your own team that will work together and basically you offer

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your own knowledge and your own protection within the fields of I.T. Security two different companies.

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So how you will do that is simply let me just go to this site right here as it says in Fugard cybersecurity.

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This is just an example of a certain website that offers cybersecurity protection and basically different

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types of security protection to different companies as we can see right here cybersecurity solutions

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and the consulting services we provide.

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Threat Intelligence and strategies that protect your vital information and mitigate cybersecurity risks

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prevent data breaches by attackers and safeguard your organization 24/7 so you basically offer your

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own packages cybersecurity packages or your own help.

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In order to protect a different company or different firm now you might be asking why do they need it.

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While most of the companies actually have some valuable information or some information that shouldn't

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really get into the wrong hands and they really want to secure it therefore they hire these teams.

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These cyber security teams that actually secure their entire company and prevent the hackers and the

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attackers from getting in.

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Therefore you as an ethical hacker or as a cybersecurity expert you want to offer your own help to these

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companies in order to protect their own data.

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Therefore once I join my own team.

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What we had at that moment is basically we had just a team and we created a website where we offered

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our own packages of cybersecurity solutions or cyber security help that will prevent hackers from getting

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it on company.

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So the company actually contact how does it go.

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Well basically the company contacts you.

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It says I need to secure my own personal space and by personal space I mean inside the company building

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you want to secure your father's networks you want the security or machines.

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For example one company actually had only Windows XP installed which is actually really bad considering

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it was only two years ago.

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The entire company running 80 percent of Windows XP is really dangerous especially as there are many

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reliability issues with Windows XP and therefore the entire company needed an upgrade to the newer Windows.

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And basically we installed just we understand you installed the antivirus is the firewalls and everything

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that the company requires from you it is mostly something uh really easy such as for example securing

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their PCs with an antivirus that would prevent different types of threats.

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Then you need to actually secure the wireless networks which is also something that they search for

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and by secure you simply just specify to them don't use Open Net folks don't use WPP use WPA to basically

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search for our good password and a strong password and don't share it to anyone.

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So once you actually have a team or if you choose to take that path and create a team which will offer

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some help you simply just can create different types of packages that you will offer to different companies

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such as for example system security as a package while security I have known that for I.T. Security

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basically you need to make sure that the that their network structure or I.T. structure inside that

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building is completely secure that there are not any holes that there is not a vulnerable machine inside

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that specific net because if you for example find one vulnerable machines it is a really good chance

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that you will be able to infect the entire network inside that specific building.

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Now of course it doesn't have to be on the security inside that building you can simply just take and

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simply just remove to secure their own website.

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So for example you can have someone in your team that is a expertise in the website penetration testing.

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And therefore once they are it is best to actually test their Web site for the security issues and mobility

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codes you can pass.

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You can hire someone from your team to perform that specific test and to see whether that company or

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that company's website has any security issues as we can see right here the first security issue for

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this actual website would be that it is not even a shitty P.S. as it says right here.

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It is not security CTP.

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Therefore if you have any actual information that is going over this Web site such as for example this

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right here it can be sniffed very very easily by anyone that is intercepting connections over our own

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network.

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Simply fight this type my name and everything right here and send the request.

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The attacker would be able to read it in plain text just because this website is not a HDP s and doesn't

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have a cell encryption that basically encrypts your own data and doesn't let anyone see it in plain

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text.

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OK.

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So uh that is also something that you can do and that is also something that I did uh which can be a

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side thing.

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You don't really need to put everything into that team.

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Uh simply in my personal example I work basically like one or two days a week and it is not really that

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stressful.

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You can simply just have it on a side while you have your own projects or on Main projects that you

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do besides that now of course once I actually got into the team and actually started doing tests for

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the different companies that actually require our own help I stopped giving private lessons because

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I didn't really see any point in doing that.

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Therefore I started searching online jobs on different freelancing platforms that they showed you in

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the previous video and therefore there is also not work which I started not long ago.

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I basically started it off by a few months ago.

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And there I managed to find my first job which was to actually be an instructor as an ethical hacker

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which is also something that you can do it is similar to the private classes that take it before this

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an English language and it is online but doesn't really matter.

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You can always have that opportunity in front of you once you learn some skill you can always be an

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instructor or a professor or someone that gives private lessons regarding that specific field because

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you have knowledge from that field and therefore right now because of up work you're basically watching

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this course because currently on my upper profile you will see the time working as an actual instructor

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for the Ethical Hacking courses and therefore for this course as well which will teach you how you can

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get your first career or pardon me or you can get your first job in this ethical hacking field.

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Okay.

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So basically let us sum everything up.

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There are a few ways you can go you can create your own team you can join a team that already exists

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that provides their cybersecurity and ethical hacking skills in order to protect different companies

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from different threats and real abilities.

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That's always a good thing to do.

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It doesn't take too much of your time especially because you're in a team at least in my case.

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And then next to it you can always have an actual freelancing platforms and your online accounts where

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you will apply for different jobs whether those are full time jobs part time jobs longer or shorter

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jobs.

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It doesn't matter you can take anything you really like and you'd think that you can do and therefore

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you will be good to go.

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And soon enough you will find your first job and from there you will find your second job and you will

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create a career for yourself.

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Now another important thing to do is to keep everything on the legal side because sometimes on this

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up for platforms and on these freelancing platforms you can find clients that will actually require

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you to perform some illegal stuff especially in the ethical hacking field.

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Now another thing how you can actually recognize those clients is you can simply just go right here

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onto the upper page.

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You can go right here and now.

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This doesn't have to mean but once the payment is not verified it means that the client basically probably

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just made the account fade here on up for work and search for someone that will do its job.

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Now also another thing from my personal experience is that as soon as the client actually asks for your

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Skype account or basically for the communication outside of the platform they will most likely want

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to actually have you do something illegal and by legal they most likely want you to hack some websites

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that they do not own or that they do not have permission to actually tell you that you need to hack

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it.

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Therefore if you encounter something like that you should keep away because most likely they will actually

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want something from you that you shouldn't really do.

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OK.

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So basically that will be about it for this lecture.

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I hope you enjoyed it and I hope I will see you in the next one by.