So there is one thing good coming out of this deployment so far, besides of course shooting people in the face.

Knowledge...

The knowledge of computers, and the good, and the destruction that they can cause, I have and still am learning both, and I'm loving it.

The scary thing is though, I searched for 10 minutes (granted I know what I'm looking for) and found many pre-built virus creation programs, ready to go, it's just like wow, it's really that easy.

Sometimes though I feel as if I'm taking on too much to try and learn at once, but I want to learn it at once, and it all revolves around one thing; scripting, yet I'm trying to learn several languages at once, but it's how I learn, to learn backwards then forwards, from the middle to start, from the end then the beginning, to reverse engineer, then create

It's how I learn, and it's working to a point.

But so far with what I know, if I decided to go black hat could earn me a good 20 years in prison.

Good thing I have no desire to, fighting the black hats is just too much damn fun, and challenging at times, when I get more then just something a script kiddie wrote.

And my god, is there a ridiculous amount of money in fighting the black hats.

But I deeply respect the hacking community, many of these people are self taught, and it really takes years, and a true and deep motivation to want to learn all of these things.