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Hey, everybody. Hey everybody, my name is Eric Escobar. I am a penetration tester, which basically means I break into corporate networks on the daily basis.

So I always wanted to be an engineer of some sort.

I wasn't quite sure what kind of an engineer.

I grew up playing with Legos, building things, taking things apart.

So it was one of those things that it was a pretty easy thing when my family was like,

you know, you should go to an engineer and I was like, hold on a second.

I can get paid to do what I just do for fun. Like, that sounds kind of cool.

So I took a, like, a survey of engineering class when I was in high school, and my, my toss-up was

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