“A real ninja never gives up.”
— Jiraiya, Naruto
Some years after the last incident.
I was planning to create a team for my path to achieve my greater dreams. I want to create history. My life changed in different ways. Help me find the reasons and realize that making money and becoming the richest person in the world is not what I truly want. If it happens, it is just a bonus.
I got into cybersecurity. At the end of September or the start of October 2024, I created a WhatsApp group called Error Code by inviting people from the Hack The Box Kerala community. It started as a group of people interested in learning together. Earlier, I had already started a Discord server called ShellDen, but it failed. There was organic traffic, but there were no active members, including me, and it died within a few months.
This time, I wanted to make the WhatsApp group better and active, but I did not want to fill it with many people. I wanted just 10 members who truly wanted to learn and be active. On 11th October, after I sent a message in the Hack The Box Kerala WhatsApp group, Alwin replied to me. I asked him a few things about himself and sent him the link to the WhatsApp group. Eventually, people liked the concept of learning cybersecurity together using WhatsApp, and the number of people exceeded the limit of 10.
At that point, my inner desire for attention came to the front, and I started expanding the group. It eventually crossed more than 40 people in a shot time(in a few days). I planned more activities to improve it further, including inner team divisions for competitions and other activities.
Next day of creating the group, the old idea of creating a hacker team came to my mind, an idea that Adarsh and I had planned a year ago. This time, I wanted to make it happen. I started building a team by filtering people from the group and the Hack The Box community. One of the official people who joined as a team member was Alwin. This happened on 12th October 2024, when I shared a group voice message explaining the filtering process to find good teammates.
I asked him some questions and gave him a few mind tasks and puzzles to evaluate his dedication, hard work, and problem solving skills. After that, I told him that I had selected him and sent him an invite link to my official hacking group, founded by me. Not only him, there was another person who joined the team at the same time as an official member by completing the task I gave.
But the name of the group, and how I ended up choosing it, is another story.