Simon McCabe
Pentest+. WAPT. OSCP. OSWP. PGCert. BSc. Linux+. Security+.
For one reason or another, I got interested (obsessed) with watches and horology. I’d buy digital watches, sell digital watches, mechanical; self winding, hacking – the love affair with watches went on. There’s something intricate about a mechanical watch. The smooth sweeping of the seconds hand, and all the gears ensuring the mainspring is wound by use of the stainless steel pendulum which rotates and stores power using a complex system of precision-designed gears. The 7s26’s movement is one of Seiko’s finest, and is admired by both amateur and professionalism hobbyists alike. My watch is the SNXG47K, which is a member of the Seiko 5 family. The moment is reliable, robust, well designed, well engineered. It’s eco-friendly in the sense that it it doesn’t require batteries. I consider watchmaking a very artistic craft.
In the same vein, ethical hacking is very much an art – in order to find a vulnerability, your mindset needs to be inquisitive; often thinking at a million miles per hour, trying multiple avenues until something clicks. Whilst the design may seem well-crafted and well engineered, it’s about finding the smallest opportunity to force the web app to work in a different way to how it was intended.
With that said, the 7s26 movement doesn’t have “hacking”, which means when you pull out the crown, the watch doesn’t stop beating, it continues. However, a by putting slight pressure on the crown and twisting reverse-clockwise, it’s possible to get the seconds hand to stop, thus “hacking” the watch. And this is why 7s26simon was chosen.
