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RE: Introduce yourself - Computer security consultant, lifetime cynic

in #introduceyourself7 years ago

Welcome to Steemit! I've been doing IT with a little IT security for almost 20 years, but it is not my passion. I'm passionate about residential security and private investigation instead.

Social engineering and human psychology have a lot of overlap with our two chosen fields though as you know.

I also admin the #security channel over at the official steemit.com chat server at steemit.chat. Please join us there if you're interested in networking at all.

There are a ton of other webpages to help you with Steemit. Here are some of the best for beginners:

https://steemd.com/ (This site is used to keep track of your voting power and other stats. You do not want to run out of voting power, and you only get so much per day. I keep my voting power around 80% for example.)

https://steem.makerwannabe.com/ (This site will tell you who follows you, who unfollows you, and who mutes you. It is great for meeting new people too. I regularly check it to see who has followed me to see if I should follow them back.)

https://steemit.chat/ (This site is the official chat webpage for Steemit. There are Discord channels too, but I usually stick to the official site. Come in to network and meet new friends. You can directly message people there too, so it makes it easier to communicate with your closest friends.)

Oh yeah, there are a lot of bots on here. If you see a cookie cutter reply, especially to your intro post, it is almost certainly a bot. Check the account's reputation. If it is low, I would recommend just ignoring them. Everything is public on Steemit, so you can go look at an account's comments and replies. Are they all the same? It's a bot.

Adding photos to your account as a new Steemian may be confusing at first too. The easiest way it to click to "Submit a Story." Once in there, use the built in Steemit tool to upload an image from your computer. Below the posting window, you will see "Insert images by dragging & dropping, pasting from the clipboard, or by selecting them." Click on the blue text. Once the image is uploaded, you can copy and paste the link into your account settings.

Verifying your identity is very important because it will get you more support and people will trust you more. The best way to verify is to link back to your Steemit account by using another public social media account. For example, I posted my Steemit articles from here through my Twitter account. Another person posted their Steemit information on their Facebook account. Some people will even post a video of themselves writing out their account information since that cannot be Photoshopped. The more famous a person is or the more valuable their content is, the more important it is that they verify. If a new account falls within those two categories and fails to verify, it may get blacklisted.

Again, welcome, and I've followed you! If you have any questions about getting started, look me up on the chat site.

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Thanks for the helpful reply! I also enjoy the social engineering/psychology aspect, I'm heavily involved in phishing campaigns for user awareness, and it's interesting to see the techniques which do and do not work.

We also do a fair bit of physical social engineering, attempting to enter offices and so on, and have had some quite worrying results!

It's amazing what you can get away with when you keep the concept of appearing as if you own the place in mind. I can walk around a private place easily by carrying myself that way. You've seen the guy who used a safety jacket to walk into all sorts of places, right? haha