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// About Me

My name is Knollbyte. I’m a 19-year-old security researcher and "Hacker" addicted to Monster Energy. I love tinkering with software and hardware to see what makes things tick, and I enjoy designing complex and decently secure software solutions with containers, as I enjoy containerizing software. I specialize primarily in Linux systems, spending a lot of my time exploring, distro-hopping, configuring, and building within the Linux ecosystem. I code in whatever I can get my hands on, but I am most comfortable with C, Bash, and Python. I am also one of those weird ThinkPad Linux users.

Outside of hacking, I take great pleasure lurking and sleuthing around internet message boards, and blasting weird, niche music (see below for a taste). I've also been accumulating an ever-growing collection of cat pictures and spend a lot of my time helping out with the nonprofit I'm involved with [The Church of Malware]. When I'm not glued to a screen, I enjoy getting outside and skateboarding, and occasionally heading to the shooting range to put a few rounds downrange with my AR-15. As my general vibe might suggest, I'm the type of person who keeps a loaded handgun next to the printer, just in case it starts making suspicious noises.

Note: despite appearances, I do not have gender dysphoria like many in my situation I am just extremely autistic.

// Strengths and Weaknesses

My strongest suit and what makes me a "unicorn" to some is my ability to design and build advanced software solutions. Like many people who get into cybersecurity at the age I did, I had what many would describe as a "slightly troubling past" and spent some time around the wrong crowd. The silver lining of that experience is that I developed the ability to naturally think like a threat actor, which has given me an extremely strong understanding of how systems can fail, where weaknesses can emerge, and how to design stronger defenses, mitigations, and honeypots. As a result, I tend to design my software and systems with a near 0-trust mindset, with failsafe after failsafe to ensure they remain secure.

My biggest weakness is probably talking to other people. being blessed with Autism and ADHD, I have almost no social filter and will sometimes say whatever comes to mind without thinking it through. I'm not very good at reading people and will often interject mid-conversation to quickly add my thoughts. I'm also not always great at explaining myself or how things work without making me sound like a schizophrenic.

// Projects

// Events I've Attended

// Notable Events Involving Me

Feat. VX-Underground

// Late Night Shenanigans

Someone Just Send me this
Your all a bunch of god damn hooligans
- VX-Underground

Context: A friend and I took this picture at a Walmart around 11:00 PM in a small town just outside of Philly. While we were there, we messed with the display laptops and changed all their browser homepages to the homepage of VX-Underground.
I’m too lazy to find the original Twitter post, but I’m pretty sure it’s on their account.

// Corporate LARPing

Context: During my senior year of High School, I took a finance class where we had to create a business from scratch and present it to the rest of the class. I decided to create an IT consulting business and wanted to make it seem as legitimate and professional as possible. To help with that, I asked Smelly to give us a testimonial that I could use to make the business appear more credible.

// Testimonials

"Thats cool as hell homie" - ek0ms savi0r (Church of Malware)

"He is a very interesting person." - The federal agent assigned to monitor me

"High Intelligence, Low Wisdom" - Handler Agent (commonly known as my father)

// Contact Me

// @Knollbyte on:

// Via Email:

Knollbyte@proton.me

[I am open to internships — certs pending :P]