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My name is Jack Re Sider and I'm currently the host of the podcast Darknet

Diaries but before that I was a network security engineer for 10 years at a

Fortune 500 company.

I don't know how, but my grandma got Apple 2E when we were young.

Doss hadn't even come out yet. doss was just coming out and she's

buying computers before doss is even here like who buys that for their home but

she did and so I was playing games and I was actually coding in like basic at the time and you know doing stuff and it wasn't until I think

AOL came around and I got connected to the internet and that just kind of was

amazing like that I think is what made me say

okay let me pursue a career in this, and I think my dad wanted me to be like a VCR

repairment is what I think his hopes were. I wish I'm glad I didn't take him up on that.

So we got enrolled in the university and I started going to classes

to do some formal training.

I was kind of young and naive and I felt like okay once I have a bachelor's degree in computer engineering

companies will just be clamoring for me you know they'll be knocking on my door 10 at a time

But had a really tough time finding anything technical to do after I got my degree, which is so strange now that I look back at it because the opportunities were endless, but I just didn't know where to look and I was a little too,

I don't know, on my high horse.

I was playing a lot of video games right before this too and I thought let's make this a video game

let me see if I can gain experience points and just focus on this like okay the current

mission is to accomplish the certificate what do I need to do to get this mission

complete like I had it in a kind of a gamification kind of

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