How to not go insane after 200+ hours of OffSec exams

Here are the top 3 things that will waste your time and energy, and how I dealt with them once and for all:

• Spending 10 minutes twisting your arms to give a virtual tour of your room using a laptop's webcam
• Re-sharing the proctoring session every 5 minutes with someone reminding you to "just have a stable Internet connection" (4Head)
• High latency RDP that allows you to sip a cup of coffee between that double-click.

The solutions are simple, but only make sense if you are committed to do multiple exams:

• Use a separate USB web cam.
• Use a dedicated DESKTOP PC with everything fresh installed. Seriously.
• Use the following command to do RDP (replace the $VARIABLES):

xfreerdp /v:$HOST /u:$USER /p:$PASSWORD /tls-seclevel:0 /cert-ignore /bpp:8 /compression /network:modem -themes -wallpaper /clipboard /audio-mode:1 /auto-reconnect -glyph-cache /dynamic-resolution /drive:$KALI_SHARE_FOLDER,smb

Instead of being frustrated throughout those 200+ hours,

these changes let me focus on the only important task: the exam.

And I hope it will help you as well.

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P.S. I promise I'll talk about something unrelated to OffSec in my next post