 All right. Hey, what's up everybody? My name is John Hammond and welcome back to another video Where I just kind of talked to myself I mean I talked to myself in every video, but this one is like at least these past couple are especially just oh I talk And I feel like I got a name the series or like a series or something like I talk who's something literally I just say words so Thanks for checking in on this video The footage that I have that I'm showing right now is a little bit of easy CTF Which is a high school middle school competition or capture the flag competition that was put on earlier this year I don't know if I don't honestly don't remember if it was March or April. I'm probably March I don't even remember March March or February. I'm sorry not April this month. It's April So I actually wanted to talk about this topic and Easy CTF was actually kind of a springboard to it too as well as that intelligence class that I told you about earlier In another video that I'm that I take it's an intelligence and cyber operations class and now they're in the cyber security Aspect or the like that module the the third part of the portion of the class We talk a little bit more of like cyber operations and that Computer tech hacky stuff. So one of the conversations that we've had and we're looking at the current events and trying to see what's Going on the real world and obviously there's a lot of Stuff floating around regarding, you know, Facebook Mark Zuckerberg putting his testimony before Congress and and all of that social media and just in general and the information that we like people as a society as a culture put on the internet like released to the public and What is okay to collect what is not okay to collect as as an application as a company as a service? etc but I Guess pulling it down to you If people sign an agreement the agreement is not really what I want to discuss or but I've just why is it that people do that like When I was in the easy CTF the discord channel I was hanging out before the competition started and the game was on and I normally just log in With my username being my name like I say on YouTube. Oh, hey, I'm John Hammond and I don't know some individual that was in the chat or like other people were saying like What are you doing dude like with the self-docs bro? Why are you using your full name? Are you a login with your like dude the self-docs and I just kept saying like self-docs your Docs Docs Docs and To be completely honest, I admit I like what I didn't know that term so I googled it and it's like self-docs when you You yourself like put your information out on the internet and Like oh, I mean, yeah, I totally do that at least I sure my name for sure and Facebook People do that right like people have a Facebook account and they want to like share and talk about them So they want to express themselves and showcase who they are and sometimes that may even be like I Don't know not meaning to I know just when I was a kid growing up like stupid people would be like Oh, hey, I've got chemistry like third period This is the classroom that I'm in this is the teacher that I've got to any of you like my friends Any of my friends have the same period and they'll literally like literally share their class schedule where and when they're going to be you know at a specific place at a specific time and Yeah, maybe you probably shouldn't put that on the internet Obviously there are pictures of yourself that you want to share you want to showcase But me being like a military member Do I want to put pictures of me in uniform out on the internet and I'll admit? Yeah, sure. I have there are stuff out there because you would like to showcase man. You're proud. I'm proud of That stuff like being in the service But sure. Yeah You're a military person. Maybe that could bring on Nation-states or adversaries or terrorists who target you target specifically like military personnel blah blah blah don't Yeah, sure I share my name and I sell these things so don't target me if you any if any of you guys are bad guys Don't hit me. Please. Thanks But I'm just trying to say like that's I feel like that's natural That's human and especially for me when they told me about the self-talks and they just said like dude What are you doing and I proudly like Claim on YouTube and across the internet like oh, no, I'm John Hammond. That's me. That's who I am and I do that I think because I'm like proud of my work or My my product, you know what my projects and the things that I put on the internet for people to see like to showcase what I've done I think that's important even as like I don't want to say a business standpoint But for like a networking professional development thing like sure linked in Not the social media site that Facebook is but it's still like hey trying to showcase yourself and what work that you do I look at sans Honestly, I look at like Jeff Mcjunkin and Josh Wright and Ed scotis and all these super cool guys Shout out to you dude. Ed scotis. You are a hero to me in more ways than I can say But they have a Twitter account where they will totally flaunt their lifestyle what they're doing Where they are when in some cases, but they're not ashamed to like say who they are like Using your name. You're not you're not hiding behind some anonymous Identity or alias handle or or hacker name. Yeah, it's cool to have some of that stuff I logged in to easy CTF as part of a reference to the ready player one novel in the movie Which is a whole other story. We can talk about another time And I've used YouTube as like root of the null I've had Handles or nicknames that it would be cool to just kind of have a bunch of scoreboard It's like a lead hacker name stuff like that but I still showcase and Still have a significant amount of value that I place and just saying like no, I'm John Hammond I'm John. I'm happy to share that that name and Again the whole conversation was writing off of The notions and discussion that we were having about putting a privacy and putting your public information out on the internet and this was kind of on the tails of I don't know if you saw the News articles and the press that was released on The Facebook Android application This was late March. I think March 20th March 21st around that time period But Dylan McKay, I think is his name I'll try and post a link or some of the Twitter notes and the tweets that we had found or were uncovered through all this Where he just showcases like this is everything that I found that the Facebook app is just keeping track of me on my cell phone between SMS messages call history phone duration who I'm calling and when my whole contacts etc etc But Ensure that was probably what spurred more and more of the oh Facebook's in the spotlight social media is in the spotlight of What is it okay to capture what's okay to not capture? but people willingly do it and I don't think that From a business or a corporation or a company I don't think they will they are or have any intentions to like sell people's information or like put stuff on the black market I don't know. I probably have a little bit more of an optimistic and Hopeful perspective on the world and on people which might be the death of me. I don't know. Please don't hack me again Please don't ruin my life. It's already bad enough so I Don't know really what I'm trying to say here But I wanted to I wanted to point at that as showcase an example of people do it People just are willing to share because they want to and I don't know if that's a bad thing. I don't know if that's a good thing I think in some cases it can very well be both But I'm pretty pleased to just say this is my name I'm happy to say I'm John Hammond because I want to put out good work and show The products and the projects that I work on and have a presence on the internet and I think I do that to some extent so the self-docs Maybe isn't so bad But if you want to completely share Where you are and when as like the real world that may have physical repercussions. I don't know Yeah, that's probably not okay but Showcasing, I'm John and having a Twitter or having a YouTube page that kind of flaunts that name Maybe could be good in the long run between going to conferences or going to capture flag I'm just kind of having a name for yourself when you're out in the scene in the culture on Meetups or at conventions etc. Etc. That's probably maybe good and I hope maybe hey one day pretty soon Once I'm out of this school this this presents all I can hang out with you guys At a conference at a convention at a capture flag competition. It's some kind of tech event And you like oh, oh, dude. It's just John I've known him for how many years and it's cool because I've just seen his presence on the internet and You know you live in a way just through what I do and what I put out there. So that's cool I think that's cool. So self-docs good and bad depends on how you use it depends on how what you what you do on the internet Depends on what people say what people ask but as long as you're comfortable with it As long as you are kosher with putting stuff on the internet because I don't there are plenty of people that will say like oh Yeah, I don't really care at this point, you know OPM hack Sony hack it's stuff like stuff losing people's credit card information social security numbers It's like you are already out there your information is probably already known and Maybe it's bad for us as a culture to just at this point say like I don't care Like the damage is done. Oh well What could it was gonna do now? I'm already out there Okay, maybe we'll never know We don't know for sure if you specifically are out there if your information your credit card number your address or phone number Stuff is already in some hackers or nation-state terrorist adversary Database I don't want to say hacker because that is a hacker is a good thing In some cases, but when you when I when I say nation-state adversary or terrorist I hope that's more of a bad thing. I hope that has a bad connotation in your mind So, okay, I think that's enough of me talking. I hope you guys got to enjoy a little bit of the video Easy CTF was a blast. I have a lot of footage from this and I want to showcase more of it I can walk through some of the challenges if you need me to but I think running through them in the raw Capture was probably pretty cool and having some Video that I can talk over for just conversations and this I talk that that style of video. Hopefully that's good and cool So, thank you guys for watching. I'll talk to you soon and Leave a like, you know leave a comment. Tell me what you think show me sure your input What do you think are you one-two self-docs or what are you willing to put out on the internet? et cetera, et cetera, so later