day 66/100 -4h auditing still no bugs for this contest, got 4 days mote tho

day 67/100 -4h auditing diving really deep in this codebase, also waiting 1+ month for results of a contest of 14 days is crazy tbh

Here. We. Go.

and this is just the beginning. I will not stop, no one will stop me. See you at the top. Thanks SHERLOCK for this opportunity.

seems like I was right.

day 68/100 - 2058$ -4h auditing today is the day I can finally call this a job, I got my first payment from a contest. This proved me that I am capable of finding valuable bugs, now I just need to hunt more.

day 69/100 - 2058$ -4h auditing contest is ending, didn't find anything substantial even though the codebase is not a "masterpiece" as it was not too complex and it was previously audited by a firm. However I'm still really happy of my performance.

day 70/100 -5h auditing today I wrapped up another contest, I'm happy of my performance as I once again fully understood the codebase. I didn't find anything substantial, I submitted just 3 mediums, but I believe not much will be found by other contestants too.

since I'm an anxious mf, I couldn't stand waiting weeks if not months for contests results without having any clue of my expected payout. So i built a simple python package to do just that. It's still in early release so it might be buggy but it works. github.com/lodelux/submis…

day 71/100 -3.5h after few days of (forced) time off as I was moving, I finally stared at code again. Started a new contest, 5k NSLOC for 1 month. It is my biggest one yet and I'm super excited.

day 72/100 | 2058$ - 4h quiet but good day. continued auditing and made good progress. I was happy I had to recap my uni knowledge of logic algebra for this contest too as I had to verify some strange nested ifs

day 73/100 | 2058$ -2.5h couldn't do more than this today since I had to deal with my washing machine who decided today was the day she had enough :)

day 74/100 | 2058$ -5.5h auditing really productive day. Found a bug and confirmed it with PoC, I love my job.

day 75/100 | 2058$ -3h auditing even though I couldn't work much, I managed to find 2 bugs, next days I'll write PoC's to confirm them. I have really high hopes for this contest

this was my first "real" contest, before my Mellow one. So much missed that even just now I know I would have done so much better. I'm taking this result as a reminder of where I was skill-wise just 1 month ago.

day 76/100 | 2100$ -4h auditing today results for 2 of my contests went out, in both of them I earned around 20$ each. can't say that I'm happy with my performance but I did learn a lot so I'm okay with it.

day 77/100 | 2100$ -6.5h auditing today was a really busy day, found and confirmed with PoC 2 moderately complex bugs. this contest is going real good already

day 78/100 | 2100$ - 4h auditing practically finished the first part of the audit: - 8 bugs found, of which 4 I'd say of moderate complexity today I'll submit the reports and move on to the next part

that feeling when you find an actual vulnerability and not a bug of an hypotetical scenario with 1001 preconditions

day 79/100 - 2100$ -6h auditing submitted 4 complex bugs, it took me at least 2h each (I wrote PoCs yesterday) as I really like to write them without LLMs as I believe we should put in each submission the same amount of effort we expect the judge to put too.