Why Cybersecurity Guys Can’t Sleep at Night
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3 min read
Ever feel like the hackers are watching?
No seriously—being into cybersecurity is like being in a constant horror movie where the ghost is a 14-year-old with a laptop named “SkullCrusher007.”
You fix one vulnerability, and another one pops up. It’s like digital whack-a-mole… except the moles are smarter than you and probably Russian.
Let me tell you what happened last night…
So I was casually sipping on coffee at 2 AM (as one does), poking around in a test network, and accidentally DoS’d my own router.
The internet died, my lights flickered, and I swear Alexa whispered “good luck” before shutting off.
At that moment, I realized something profound:
Cybersecurity isn’t about being safe. It’s about being just slightly less hackable than your neighbor.
The funny thing about bugs…
You spend 10 hours trying to patch one vulnerability, write perfect regex, secure every header—and then BAM! You get popped by a default password you forgot to change.
Or better: someone gets root access because you left a print("debug") in your Flask API.
This job humbles you. Every. Single. Day.
So I was chatting with my friend…
I was talking to my friend Aditya, and we both agreed—cybersecurity isn’t a profession; it’s a lifestyle.
You’re either dreaming about firewalls, or you’re dreaming about being on fire because you forgot to configure one.
Accidental wins in cybersec?
- The guy who discovered a 0-day by trying to jailbreak his smart fridge.
- Someone accidentally ran
nmapon their own employer’s network and found an exposed dev server… got promoted instead of fired. - The intern who typed
sudo rm -rf /and accidentally helped the company discover they had no backups. (Okay, maybe that one wasn’t a win.)
Here’s what I’ve learned so far:
- Always double-check before pressing enter in terminal
- Never trust user input (or users in general)
- The moment you feel secure… you’re probably already pwned
- Sometimes the best learning comes from messing up badly
- And seriously, change your default credentials
At the end of the day, cybersecurity teaches you one important truth:
Perfection is an illusion. But paranoia? That’s forever.