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Look, I’m just gonna say it: most hackers suck at recon. 🤷‍♂️

Yeah, I said it. And before you close this tab in rage, hear me out. I’ve been doing bug bounties for three years now, and I’ve watched countless talented hackers — people way smarter than me — completely waste hours (sometimes days) because they’re making the same fundamental mistake during reconnaissance.

The “More Tools = Better Results” Trap 🪤

Here’s what usually happens. A hacker finds a target, let’s say target.com. They get excited. They immediately fire up their terminal and start running:

subfinder -d target.com -o subdomains.txt
amass enum -d target.com >> subdomains.txt
assetfinder --subs-only target.com >> subdomains.txt
findomain -t target.com -u findomain_results.txt
chaos -d target.com -o chaos_subs.txt

Then they sort, dedupe, and run httpx:

cat *.txt | sort -u | httpx -threads 200 -o live_hosts.txt

They get back 3,400 live subdomains, run nuclei on everything:

nuclei -l live_hosts.txt -t ~/nuclei-templates/ -o nuclei_results.txt

And then… crickets. 🦗