About

Personal brand page for Alcohawk — career interest in penetration testing, clear ethics, and the gear that supports authorized learning.

Ethics first. All security practice described here is legal and authorized only — personal home lab, owned systems, or work done under explicit written permission. No unauthorized hacking.

Personal brand

B1rdstrike is Alcohawk’s public home for a path into offensive security as a profession — learning how systems fail so they can be hardened, not broken for sport.

The focus is structured study: networking, Linux, web fundamentals, and authorized lab exercises that map toward entry-level pentest and security assessment roles. Progress is measured by understanding and documentation, not flashy screenshots of other people’s networks.

Gear context

What runs the lab and daily work — ownership and authorized use only.

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 Primary lab box for VMs, tooling experiments, and heavier workloads in an isolated setup.
Mac (daily driver) Clean everyday machine for writing, browsing, and non-lab work — kept separate from offensive tooling.
Raspberry Pi 4 / 5 Lightweight services, network experiments, and always-on lab helpers on owned hardware.
Linksys WRT3200ACM Lab networking edge for segmented home-lab traffic and controlled wireless testing environments.
Hak5 WiFi Pineapple Pager Authorized wireless research and training in isolated lab scenarios — never against third-party networks without permission.
MakerBot Hardware/prototyping side interest — printing and tinkering alongside the security lab track.

Career interest

Long-term aim: contribute as a professional penetration tester or security assessor — scoping engagements, reporting clearly, and respecting client boundaries. Until then, this site stays a quiet, ethics-forward brand presence and lab notebook index.