From Script Kiddie to Cyber Jedi: My Call with a Hacker That Roasted Me
So yesterday, I pulled a bold move.
I called up a cybersecurity expert — not just some random YouTuber, but my college sir’s friend. I wanted to ask one simple doubt:
👉 “Bro, should I do the CEH (EC-Council) course now?”
What I got instead?
A reality check so heavy it almost rm -rf /’d my confidence.
The Roast Session 🍿
First, this guy tells me:
“Cybersecurity is a long path, my friend. You need to know every single thing in networking and IT before you even think about CEH.”
Then he drops the bomb:
“How would you hack my phone? If you connect to my network, I can get inside yours.”
Bruh. I froze like a misconfigured firewall.
After a few grilling questions, he looks at me (through the phone, lol) and says the words that still echo in my ears:
💀 “You’re a script kiddie.”
(If you don’t know, that’s basically hacker slang for a noob who just runs tools without understanding them. Ouch.)
The Networking Slap 🖧
He asked me:
“How do you architect a company’s security?”
Me, trying to sound pro:
“Uh… start with a firewall?”
Him: “WRONG. Firewall is not the first thing. What comes before it?”
Me: 404 knowledge not found.
He went on explaining layers, stages, blah blah — basically confirming I’m not strong in networking yet.
The Homework Assignment 📚
Before ending the call, he dropped his “to-learn” bomb list:
- Master networking (OSI layers, protocols, etc.)
- Basics of Java, HTML, CSS, Python, Bash
- Deep dive into Linux (I told him I already broke Arch & Kali multiple times, so I got some creds there).
He said CEH is not for beginners. Maybe in my 4th year of college.
Right now, I gotta grind.
My Hacker’s Dilemma 🕶️
So here I am, 6 months deep into Linux, battled with OS installs, solved random customization bugs, but… still stuck. Networking feels like my final boss fight.
And honestly? Getting called a script kiddie hurt. But maybe that’s the hacker way — you gotta get roasted, broken, humbled, and then rise.
Like they say: 
⚡ Every script kiddie has the potential to become a cyber Jedi… if they don’t rage-quit halfway.
So yeah, back to my textbooks and terminals.
Next time, when someone asks me about firewalls, I won’t just say “uh, put one at the gate.”