OSEP - Offensive Security Experienced Penetration Tester (REVIEW) 

How's it going so far?

I used to use Joplin and started looking at Obsidian as a result of this post. I kind of feel like Obsidian is a bit better so far that I've had a chance to try it.

IMO it becomes less hard. I haven't taken OSCP or OSEP, but I hacked at least one box of every level on hackthebox before the writeups (easy: enough boxes, medium: enough boxes, hard: Zetta, Insane: PlayerTwo) and what I've noticed are two things: 1) It's still crazy hard, but since you're already used to that, it's fine. 2) Sometimes it's not much more difficult, but it just involves an entirely different skill. If you've never done that skill, it feels insanely difficult. For example, with PlayerTwo the final challenge is doing a heap overflow. All you get is the binary, so you also need to know x86-64. If you've never read C and never did x86-64, then the task feels insurmountable. I was simply rusty on C and ok on x86-64. So I knew I could do it and that it'd take me a long time as understanding C (and reading malloc.c) was the predominant skill. Understanding SQLi is completely different to understanding how to do a heap overflow. You could argue it's harder, but a part of it is simply because you've never done it before. For example, the hardest thing I've ever done was to learn x86-64 assembly and C in a course, since those 2 things were seen as prerequisites and I never have seen either of them (I knew Java, lol).

I mean we all knew it that it''s pentester beginner level right? But that what's amazing we'll never get a shortage of challenges :D (I'm on my 2nd Try OSCP) I can't wait to get through all these challenges

@@sharghaas7774 yeah well, I only recently realized that oscp is considered beginner level. I've been studying so hard, dreaming of proudly getting oscp certification, just to find that it is nothing anyway. Probably not even a problem for me, as hard as I try, I always feel like I'm just beginning. I wonder when, and if, I will find myself comfortable in this field. Sometimes I fear like I have made the wrong choice, as I will never be good enough. It is a bit depressing.

@@ShinigamiAnger you're not alone , lol , that's all I can tell you , I'm definitely way behind you , and just maybe .... Older , so you can only imagine how that looks like to me , not to compare it to music production but i remember when I used to launch all that software and see all those knobs and frequencies and dig into audio engineering tutorials and classes how it all looked to me , now ? I do that to get my mind of things , litrally how i know the back of my hand , so to me , i just keep reminding myself how much i would've missed if i quit , and how much I'd regret it , same for Muay Thai to me as well , first leg kick from a pro guy and start Wondering why am I even doing that to myself , hahaha that was harder not to quit , but i didn't , everything has a learning curve , just hang on in there , you'll know when it's too much or not your field , just make sure you're not mixing that with the frustration of the slow progress at the beginning , everything seems to get bigger as you dig in , it only means you're actually learning a lot. Good luck Hope i didn't bore you with the long comment haha it's just that your comment hit home. Had to say something

@@analactica not bored at all, very appreciated, sincerely. I wish you all the best.

I just got my OSWE. Tackling this in a couple of months.

@@dochood1966 Passed! I've been working on the PEN-300 now for about a month.

@John Hammond. I had some questions regarding the Offensive Security Certs. First are you open to answering a couple questions? If so where do I direct them? Thank you as always sir.

NVM I actually found a video you did - lol thanks! :-)

it's definitely more difficult. It seems to be above ecptxv2