Learning-in-Public
The Blind Spot My Training Gave Me
First box after the eJPT and I walked past the vulnerability that solves it. Not because it was hidden, but because two months of labs taught me it was not worth looking at. About what your practice material quietly teaches you.
eJPT: Passed
First certificate on the eJPT → CPTS → OSCP path is done. What worked for me while preparing — labs before videos, and a small browser extension I wrote to remove the hints. No exam details, there will not be any.
Reading a Netmask Without Guessing
I got a subnet wrong in a pivoting lab because I guessed the CIDR instead of reading it from the netmask. Here is the real math, and the two mistakes that made it worse.