{"id":33,"date":"2023-04-01T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bthrx.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2023-05-05T10:57:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T14:57:46","slug":"whoami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bthrx.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/01\/whoami\/","title":{"rendered":"whoami"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Hello, world. <br><br>I&#8217;m Bthrx (Branthrax) &#8211; a stay-at-home dad, bug bounty hunter, and lover of the outdoors. I enjoy hacking mobile apps and reverse engineering malware.<br><br>My journey started in the late 90&#8217;s early 2000&#8217;s clearing off malware I&#8217;d manage to get on the family computer which was a ton of dangerous amount of regedit with no backups.  After failing to make a career in music happen, I got locked into a career in retail without much idea of what I wanted to really be doing. In 2019, Mr. Robot and Dark Net Diaries planted the hacking seeds, leading me back towards something I never really thought of as a possible career, but looking back on was very obvious. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once I heard about bug bounties I decided to make a move, which also coincided with my new found status as a stay at home dad. I started learning web dev and web app security. I enjoy those things, but what excited me the most was malware reversing. This is what I like most about mobile hacking, its a mix of web dev and reverse engineering.<br><br>In my free time, you&#8217;ll find me with my kids, hiking, and bouldering. I&#8217;ve been plant-based for over a decade.<br><br>Hack the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, world. I&#8217;m Bthrx (Branthrax) &#8211; a stay-at-home dad, bug bounty hunter, and lover of the outdoors. I enjoy hacking<span class=\"more-dots\">&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"more-tag d-block mt-15\"><a class=\"more-link wp-block-button__link icon-inline\" href=\"https:\/\/bthrx.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/01\/whoami\/\">Continue Reading...<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"whoami\"<\/span><\/a><\/span><!-- .more-tag --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-whoami","no-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bthrx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bthrx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bthrx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bthrx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bthrx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bthrx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/bthrx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bthrx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bthrx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bthrx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}