Looking back in 2025 vs what to aim for in 2026

Hello there,

Did I reach my goal for 2025?

In some what not all the way, my ultimate goal is yo move back to Central Oregon where I was forced out. But some things did happen like some debt was cleared, focus on my own cars to be ready for the move back north has began, I still have 1 more car to get opperational.

My ultimate goal for 2026 is to move north back to central oregon.

My TougeSW isn’t sucessfull at all, it’s been on a standstill for a while but it is more of a vlog than anything else. But if I end back up to the PNW it will revert to TougeNW.

Reason I want to go back so badly is that PNW felt more of home than Vegas ever had, the Vegas Heat has been devistating to me, and it feels and has always felt like a prison in Vegas. The people are extremely ungreatful and it’s only growing bigger. Vegas is never for me, I may have been born and rasied here just this isn’t my town I just simply don’t belong here.

in 2026 I am looking to expand and looking for opporunities still to move back to central oregon. Ontop of that I am looking to start my “Slide America” tour with my drift car, release of my second book detailing the whole lvnet network of what I’ve shaped when I was there and a potential concept release of a game I’ve been working on when I am bored at times.

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Redesign, pruning, and relaunching

So I am reworking the network, it’s been a bit since I’ve done so. Lots of changes and lots of reworking.

  • Discord has been purged and rebooted
  • Currently reworking the current design of this site
  • Stream stays the same just will Inherit a new design
  • Main focus is TougeSW right now, Vegas Hackware is my side hustle and book and is working on a second book as we speak
  • Clothing store front is also coming slowly.
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Life’s work

Here I am writing another page in my second book and this came to me and I figured it is worth sharing.

There is alot, and I do mean alot of of small things in my life that are actually a lot bigger and with ignorance I took it for granted and should share my experiences. For an example, When Zul’Gurub came out to World of Warcraft, our guild was in the race for who can take down the boss first, On Archimonde at the time and I can’t remember if it was Month’s behind or if I was a part of another guild on the alliance side, I was a feral druid who always had to respec. to restoration because back in these days feral druid was extremely broken and weak during raids and their only use was to back up the priest.

When we failed the fight we found out that the hunter’s pets are still infected with the corrupted blood and decided to unleash them into Iron Forge and did so we ended up watching how badly this started to infect others over and over to a point it was getting bad and it ended up getting so bad it ended up crashing the server as I remember this was a server that was down for over 6 hours because of this incident over a few days. The dead bones were lined up so thick in Iron Forge that it would lag the client side so bad to a point it would crash the client.  It was hilarious times but I never knew how important this kind of level was, never would have thought this would be a ground breaking story that would also be a study later on with infectious disease. Learn more about the incident here 

So it is amazing such little things in life at least for me can be impacted, so I take a big look back and look at the years I’ve been with LasVegas.net (ISP.Net now) and when my dad tells people that I’ve helped built that ISP from the ground up I normally shrug it off, but in the past few years I’ve been realizing it and he wasn’t wrong. 

I would love to give a good positive outlook on how my life turned out, I would love to have reported how highly successful in the ISP being their CISO, being highly influenced leader and giving epic scale talks as if I was Kevin Mitnick.

Sadly, in this timeline of events, I am nowhere near with that level of success. Instead, any talks I get to perform is rejected, I was bullied out of my own Defcon Group 702 I’ve been working on building since 2014 and I am to a point in my career I’m extremely burned out. When I do get to a level of a success in my career path I get pushed down, bulled, and ignored which doesn’t help my burn out feel.

As I was digging through some of my nostalgic code, relearning what I did do and, in this day, and age, A part of me goes: maybe it is a good time to be paid as a black hat, maybe it’s time to dig back to what I did do back in 2000 before I took over the ISP. Learning that a botnet I’ve once developed can be remade and I can go back to finding and hoarding 0days again rebuilding a botnet, this time not to use and flex but to resell on the darknet.

Another part of me says don’t, instead keep focus on building the book and the brand and give it some more time, even though I am about to turn 46, my success is help putting away the ISP’s owner with my book.

Now, what if I was in a different time line and I did get successful with my OG hack and became the ISP’s actual CISO (if you read my book, I’ve played the role in their network as their acting CISO as in a multi-hat role) and recognized as such.  I would be doing talks, giving inspiration to keep up the dreams, help give back to the hacker community, my DC702 would have been grounded as I would have been a Kevin Mitnick level of approval on the eyes of the community.  I would be able to focus more of building my name even further and wouldn’t have been burned out by the job career.

My second book, is more about my actual resume, my original 0day for the “ssh nuke” before someone else found it and reported it as a POC and somehow ended up on matrix 2…. How I built the botnet and how I took over the ISP to how I helped shaped the ISP to where it is at today. laying down the foundation I’ve reshaped.

 

 

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A while, hasn’t it been?

Back in 2010 I made a move to Oregon in a reponse to massive trauma I’ve endured during the 2001 – 2009 yearh. Alot of that was explained in my book.

In the past 15 years, I realized alot more about Oregon and me than I have realized, first of all the heat and the air is brutally hurting and destroying my health. 5 months out of the year I can’t stand outside as this brutal heat is causing massive problems with me and my body.

I’ve also learned that I have a huge sugar and wheat allergy, but for the most part, I am not always fighting to stay awake like I do now, I was not always heavy breathing that I do now. The dust is so thick in this valley and it feels like it’s getting hotter each year with more days of 100F+ causing more months of intense heat and more days I get violently sick to be outside, I have to litterly push myself and after 30 minutes I am so dizzy, tossing in so much sweat and it doesn’t mater how many energy drinks I’ve acquired I’ll pass out from it.

I wished I wasn’t so stuck in trauma shock in 2010 and I wished I would have never trusted Mike and started my own business as originally planned and contract work with him so I can easily deny work I don’t feel good with.

I feel like vegas is my prison and my personal hell that I am seriously stuck in, I need help badly to get out. I am also trying to get my cars running so that if I do find an opportunity to leave I can easily do so, I’ve been working hard with out being hospitalized.

I’ve been looking extremely hard for job opportunities or even somehow figure out how I am going restart my busines there. I’d love to return TougeNW back there and bring with me Vegashackware a Cyber security firm / consulting company.

I’ve been reaching out to get my story out there but no one seems to want to listen. I really need help. I’ve even started a gofund me in an attempt to leave this place for good.

Anyways, if you want to help.
GoFundme or my Book. or if you are a business I did serviced back in the day looking to venture in or do a good dead in the world. This is it.  Feel free to contact me.

 

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Analyzing the burnout

The Burnout analyzed…

I have been trying to really place down my timeline of how I feel so burned out in life and not being successful the goals I set and keep on trying I may not be a boxer, but if that is how winning is done, I have yet to win. as the quote goes “That is how winning is done, it’s not how hard you hit it is how hard you can take the hits” I’ve been taking so many hits and I fought back, tooth and nail and winning isn’t there. Revenge is tho!

I am not an NPC (Non-player Character), I lived long enough to be an anti-hero main person vibe and one part of my story I was born a villain.

My tech burn out all started in the whole lasvegas.net, lv.net now known as ISP.net. The years of verbal, mental, and even physical abuse and harassment, Including when I was fighting for my life with cancer, I had one of the partners who instead of having compassion played tricks and pranks while I lay dying, literally as I was getting blood transfusions as the doctors are telling me I had 6 months to live. For years I was promised the CISO role as a partner in the company, and I didn’t make money, for years the owner would belittle me, insult me, harass me and used my own family against me used their flaws to hold control over me and forced me to work under the table and instead the owner has stolen over 50k from me and ruined my credit.

When I left for the first time I had a “contract to hire job” ,this was 2007 and the decline of the economy so many businesses were starting to go out of business. By 2008 I ended up with another managed services provider. I was also being verbally abused by a significant other, loss of a job in 2009 and my own family seemed to be against me until I finalized the divorce. all these events piled on me and in 2009 I almost took my own life.

I moved to Oregon as a trauma response and on the insurance that the business partner would be true to his word but turns out after I moved I walked into another verbal abusive business partner and a business partner who was defrauding people and instead of targeting my actual goals of being a business ideas and my direction (cyber security) I was treated as a cash cow to his fraud system. My escape was endless weekends and nights in the mountain passes, driftx events hosted by TougeNW. I kept my ground and kept on challenging his defrauding and when will I get my say and share of the company and I can stop living off my unemployment checks. Instead it ended up with him threatening my life and now my career is on the line to his lies and fraud and held me against my will. When I had no other choice but to flee back to Las Vegas, a place I didn’t ever want to return.

I came back, already beaten up mentally from all the abuse and still trying to even process my cancer battle still that I’ve beaten physically just mentally I never had a chance to process. As I was being stalked and harassed by Marty from lvnet/ispnet since the day I left in 2007, I caved in and returned to work for him maybe? I’ll get that partnership promised.

Mentally I built a wall to turn off all the previous abuse to keep this professional, in which I learned that I will never get what I want with him, no matter how much I try. and that was emotionally draining

I also caved in and started to work for a casino, just to make money and I used drifting and car mechnics to break free from the burnout feeling, and just clock in, do work, and clock out and I couldn’t do that. I felt too much like I wanted to be more than that so I fought hard to move up the casino ladder but from 2013-2023 it all ended the moment I started to get to the area I want to grow from, but I was challenged by people who was unfit for their job and I became a disregarded as an employee and in the end targeted and it came to an end.

It’s been hard to focus on anything tech and cyber security regardless of how much skill I’ve learned over the years as I feel it is nothing more than another failed journey for me and I’m nothing more than replaceable in the end as if I was just some NPC.

I used to love embracing technology, love to see how I can also compromise it, I used to love learning new skills and languages and other OS levels, I used to love digging into other hardware and security solutions. Like a script kiddy and their flipperzero on Christmas, or the next age of graphics cards. I see this kind of technology love and trying my best to at least teach him but it’s also coming at a price of my mental health on the past traumas

One thing I know would help is if I had some type of success back into the cyber security world because at this point I am done applying for jobs and if I lost this one I’d rather just pitch a tent and die in the heat cursed to this a city I wanted to leave.

After 30 years, I am so tired.

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The Hobbies, the network, and more.

First of all, I am not looking to become a twitch partner. Instead I am looking to boost my branding.
To make this clear, here is what I am looking for:

  • Colaboration with WRnet – Gaming stream
    • Hunt Showdown
    • Sea of Thieves
    • and other various games.
  • Colaboration for TougeSW – Drift and car content.
  • Colaboration for Cyber Security with Vegas Hackware.

What I am not looking for:

  • Graphic Designers
  • Networking Marketing
  • I don’t need twitch emote makers
  • No AI crap
  • and no V-Tuber  stuff.

Twitch Streams is a hobby and a tool not a job.
If you offer anything in my not looking list prepare to be ignored and / or blocked on various platform.

If you want to network do any Market anything for me as a service, I highly suggest help me with marketing my book.

All business inquiries please email me at kallador [a *your mom* t] wonderingraven [dot] net

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Defcon the end of an era…

The year was 1998, I was going down the internet hole shortly after I graduated in 98 I was able to build first computer, from my journey I learned alot from windows, linux, unix systems the rabbit hole was a fun place to be in. IRC dalnet and efnet and somehow I discovered there was defcon. I got to meet new people, learn new things. I never drank in my life so I missed out on alot of “special” afterhours parties but the live hacking, the talks, to the music it was like a huge giant hack fest.

Stories of these parties, and other festivities was great. Here is the thing though, people grow up, you know mature. Defcon has matured alot in the years and in the past 10 years they essentially have lost the actual hacker culture it was known for and became more of a ground of random talks of nonsense, the parties has been different, new kids hear the old stories and learn pretty fast they can’t repeat it. Over the years they have became more of an information security / cyber security  confrence then anything else, technically I would say the black hat afterparty.

There was a time when I would speak of defcon to any admin or person and they would would treat me as if I joined some elite club of hackers in the computer field.  Now I just say defcon and they think I just do cyber security and have no idea what it is anymore other than just disable all communications when defcon is here. No one hacks public wifi if at most people are wireshark’ing for unencrypted data to be placed on the wall of sheep, but that is it. To even run a check on this theory, I ran an honeypot pi for 4 years straight, and not one scan, touch or anything really.

Defcon has it’s own set of rules but never nor less it has became more of a pirate cove, with no honor amongst one another. As an example of my recent realization of said conference, back in 2014-ish a few local friends started up dc702 as the original dc702 vanished, friends all moved away so I was left with starting up over again the dc702, so I attempted todo so. post 2018-ish I worked on rebranding and pushing it to the dcgroups and make it official with doing all the paperwork nessessary. dc702 almost was official, as they asked me to fix little things and I done so but that is where it got weird as I got ignored, I email and email with reapplying and reapplying and kept on trying until recently I gave up and came to the realization.

In this realization of mine is, Defcon has became nothing like it used to be. It feels like it has technically “sold out” and became a generic con to the blackhat after party.  The whole punk themed, seemed to have died, it became more of a networking for cyber security and infosec individuals with a vegas after party, that isn’t my scene.  Defcon has lost it’s fun and it’s edge, well atleast for me anyways. Doesn’t help that I am extremely burned out with tech and if I have to keep fighting for the old ways especially alone now, well time to bow out.

Defcon will always have a place in old school hearts and have made that memory of being more radical “punk like even” that changed and helped define us more. The day of the old school hackers is dead, what runs the hacker culture these days is the Kali Linux Script Kids where certs defines who you are and your military background and how much you paid to win your CTF scores.

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Help me return to the PNW.

For the ones who didn’t know, I was pushed out of PNW, Redmond, Oregon back in 2011  when Michael McGee of Redmond Computers, eOndeck held me against my will and pushed me out threatening my life and my career.  Las Vegas is my prison, even though I was born and raised in Las Vegas, it is not my home. I don’t belong in this town, I’ve been trying to return back to Central Oregon for over 15 years now. Due to poverty and other situations it has been nearly impossible to do so.

If you want to help, Here is how you can help.

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WRnet Gaming – Twitch Schedule and Gaming rotation.

Game in current rotation is:

  • Palworld
  • Conan Exiles
  • Red Dead Online
  • Sea of Thieves
  • and returning Hunt Showdown

Current Podcasts:

  • TougeSW – Thursday nights at 10pm pst
  • WRNet:sec Hack Like a Subgenius (new) – TBA

Twitch Scheduling still
Monday – Friday 7pm-ish till 11pm pst
Weekends is random.

Can’t stream garage work anymore due to the intense heat and my current hardware overheats when tempatures goes above 90F.

You can use this link below to catch the streams:

https://live.wonderingraven.net

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3/20 – Moving Forward – Part 3

Part 3, Moving Forward.

The Struggle: I struggle to be recognized as more than an NPC but then again being an NPC is the perfect way to dip into the darkness and claim riches, ditch the ethics, become the Countess of Monte Cristo (Metaphorically Speaking). Watching Breaking bad for the first time broke me in a way to finally watch a show I can’t just phone up my mom and talk to her about it but it also broke me in a way I am losing time and more I keep trying to get recognize as more. Maybe it is the after effects of being on the pedestal from the promise to greatness or being told I am a great person being gaslit on both grounds. The struggle begins where I know I can be great and lead and do great things, but the issue is trust and that trust is hard to earn when you feel rejected.

The Rejection: Since my departure from the ISP, on top of my conquering own challenges and breaking my own boundaries to know my actual worth.  Like the story of Conan, the Barbarian (movie) where Conan was on the wheel of pain for years and then became a fighter and was set free one day. I can relate this part of my story on that freedom.  When he claims his sword he finds his calling, like me I found my “sword” so to speak, I trained myself inside of slavery being a CISO or a cyber security engineer professional on top of many other skills shaping my self to be a master of all. My skills is far greater than I have ever known humbly I’ve been seeking entry level jobs under estimating what I really know and that is what my current role has shown me regardless of what kind of role, it is a survival role do to my enslavement of the ISP and my Axe (metaphorically speaking) is Cyber security based, hacker based.

Moving forward: Vegas Hackware not just my book, it is my Axe and By this Axe, I rule (a reference to Conan the barbarian / Kull the conqueror metaphor). It is my way to move forward, somehow use this as my business to conquer the hearts and my ultimate goal is finally be myself, be needed, be seen, and get out of the desert and move north again give back the ones in need and make a difference to the world and to the communities I reside in. But as I struggle and stuck in survival mode, it is in the end just waiting One day at a time until I can find the right opporunity.

If by any means, feel free to contant me from the Vegas Hackware side of things if you want to help or be apart of a success story.

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