I just wanted to make a short introduction. I had no idea where to post this and this seemed to me to be the most suitable part of the forum for it.

I'm a 26 year old guy who has loved computers from when I was a kid. However I never really got to learn about how it all works. A few months ago I started reading up on everything and the fever got to me. Currently I am trying to read as much as I can get my hands on. While in the mean time studying C++ from online tutorials.

My dream (but I guess many share it with me) is to some day get some type of certification to become an official penetration tester (and leave the dirty heavy job that I got now to someone else).

I read about the contests you run here and I think they are a great thing (could really be life changing for some people). I try to hope to contribute along the way of learning myself by posting some tutorials. I guess some will be pretty basic to the more advanced members of this forum. But if they are please tell me then what I could look into more that is related to the subject I wrote about.

And beside that all. I do my best watching my spelling and grammar however English is not my native language and even with Firefox's build in dictionary I might write something wrong from time to time, forgive me for that...

Hope to discuss network/computer security and penetration testing with all of you.

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Thanks for the welcome. I am currently already writing three papers. One on the dangers of a badly configured robots.txt files, one about phishing and and other one about website spidering use wildcards.

I learned English from the TV when I was a kid. To bad it does not teach you any spelling and grammar.

I could not help noticing that most people on here do not write articles them selves but just post links to content of others. Did I overlooked a section maybe?

And one more question I hope some one could answer if I write an article on a certain subject would I put that in the tutorials forum or in the forum that corresponds to the subject and content of the article?

Is it mentioned anywhere how this review process works and what would you conciser a complete article (1 or 2 A4)?