I'm sitting in a 40ft fifth wheel in shorts and a t-shirt with a cold beer, running a 23-container security stack on a machine that someone literally threw in the trash.

[paranoidrv@infosec.exchange]

I'm sitting in a 40ft fifth wheel in shorts and a t-shirt with a cold beer, running a 23-container security stack on a machine that someone literally threw in the trash.

No degree. Never had one. No certs. Don't want them. No student debt. Never will.

Everything I built — Suricata, Zeek, Wazuh, CrowdSec, local LLMs, a custom AI memory system, the whole SOC — I figured out by asking AI the right questions and not stopping until the answers made sense. Took a $0 e-waste tower and turned it into something most companies spend six figures trying to buy.

The secret isn't talent. It's stubbornness and good questions.

12 articles at mpdc.dev/blog documenting every step. Here to learn and help where I can. ️

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