Hack for the U.S Gov?

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**Hacker.**

What is your dream job?

"Police"

"Doctor"

"Hacker."

It was an unusual choice, but the one that I fit the best. The ability to pull off a treasure hunt for digital riches and power was always something I was interested in. Fortunately for me, this dream became my reality.

For someone who had no coding knowledge, it seemed impossible, but nonetheless, I always loved IT. From creative PowerPoints with animations and techniques to impress my primary school, to becoming a decent gamer—not great, but decent. My family was not rich but was able to provide me with a good lifestyle, and I relied on school to teach me my first programming language: Python.

In secondary school (age 13), I was in class with a substitute teacher at the front. My speed when it came to writing classwork had me finishing large 30-minute tasks in 10 minutes, so I often had free time. I usually would daydream or spy on my classmate playing Pokémon Go on his phone. Until one day, I started playing it too. The student Wi-Fi was bad, so the game would glitch a lot, and that’s when it all began.

The classmate complained about the Wi-Fi and jokingly asked, "What if…

What if we had the staff Wi-Fi password? The Internet would be sooo much quicker." We laughed, and that was the end of it. Or so I thought.

That summer, I went on work experience at an optician's, looking to make a good first impression. My job as a receptionist was boring but simple and manageable. I had just directed a patient to a senior member of staff when I overheard my manager complain about an artificial intelligence hub they were using, and that’s when a strange feeling overcame me. Without any thought, I asked my manager if I could help since "I have worked with this software before." Albeit, to be honest, I had only really used ChatGPT or Perplexity (my personal favourite AI). Due to my truthfully average knowledge of software flaws, I simply guessed the issue: "A firewall is blocking access. Only the admin can fix this."

To my surprise, when the manager phoned the admin team in Germany, he directed the call to me, saying, "Here is our technical expert who can guide you through the issue." From then on, for about two hours, I was talking to the head of the tech team in Germany, attempting to resolve the issue (using Google answers to display "my expertise").

Once the issue was finally resolved, my manager allowed me to be treated as the "IT Manager" for the opticians (only for the week I worked there). That role suddenly sparked my interest in hacking again, and that week, I spent half my time working and half my time learning—how to hack.

I first learned Wi-Fi hacking, as a tribute to my friend, and managed to gain access to staff and admin Wi-Fi passwords at my school. From there, I became a star. Everyone knew me for having the admin and staff passwords and for designing the funniest yet most ridiculous malware on Python (disclaimer: they were ALL harmless; no computers were harmed in the making or running of my code). Since then, I have continued to learn and grow as an ethical hacker.

Now for the part most of you are probably here for:

**Hacking for the U.S. Government.**

During my time as a hacker, I always cared about ethics and the law, never really wanting to get myself into any trouble. Therefore, I was desperate to find a way to hack for money—lawfully.

That’s how I found Bug Bounty (I will probably disclose in a different story some alternatives to bug bounty, but you will have to hunt for that story first).

Bug bounty was simple: go to one of the hosting sites (HackerOne, Intigriti, Bugcrowd, etc.) and sign up. There, you will find dozens of big companies such as Klarna, Playstation, and Netflix, who are willing to PAY you to find vulnerabilities in their systems and report them. They give you certain rules and sites you can hack, depending on the aim of their bounty. They review your report and either turn it down (not applicable or no real security issue) or resolve it, using a scale of severity (Low, Medium, High, Critical). It’s a simple way into the world of ethical hacking.

I was quite lazy and didn’t like using my coding knowledge since it took me ages to write and understand code, so I looked for shortcuts—quick ways to find vulnerabilities others missed. I found non-coding-based ways to hack companies and thereby resolved reports. Most of the time, it was hard. My methods weren’t always successful at finding weaknesses, and sometimes I got false positives.

Until one day, I discovered a TOP SECRET file belonging to the U.S. Military, regarding information I cannot currently disclose to you.

To my luck, it was no false positive and got resolved with a high severity. I then learned that my techniques had an alarming success rate with U.S. Government-based sites compared to others.

I can’t go into too much detail regarding the weakness I found (but I do have an offer for anyone willing to learn my exact techniques and how to work with the U.S. Government as a hacker).

From my success, I was able to create a hacking team with over 20 members, each with their own skill sets. (Not to brag, but a colleague recently bagged $150,000.00 FROM ONE WEAKNESS.)

Since the messages from the U.S. Department of Defense were sent to my email, I could use them as proof of my work with them. This extremely boosted my CV, to the extent that I could potentially get high roles in the digital industry at 18 years old, earning approximately $12,000.00 more than the average entry or mid-level jobs in the digital industry.

And I want to help others do the same.

Why?

Because there are many like me out there, those who aspire to be something greater, but the needs of “good technology” and large amounts of experience keep them down.

I am currently in the process of creating a project in which I collaborate with 10 of YOU to help become ethical hackers for the U.S. Government, teaching my exact techniques, reporting the issues, and securing the reports alongside you.

Sadly, due to my age, I can’t withdraw the money I’ve made from my bugs yet.

But in two years’ time (currently 2025), I will be able to withdraw and start this project with you all.

Feel free to help the cause and sign up for this collaboration. If we manage to raise enough money, I might even be able to start this project in two months or less!

Looking forward to working with you all.

Shudai.