Wednesday, January 13, 2010

How to Hack - Hacking - how can I learn to hack?

You stay up all night on the PC typing and typing. No, you’re not hacking. You’re suppliant someone on IRC to teach you how to hack! Let’s look at the facts:

1. You’re a loser and you’re annoying. No one likes you if you ask others how to hack with no taking the least amount of initiative.
2. You’re not worthy of any title even resembling hacker, cracker, phreaker, etc., so don’t go around calling yourself that! The more you do, the less likely you are to find someone willing to teach you how to hack (which is an infinitesimal chance, any way).
3. You’re wasting your time (if you couldn’t infer that in the first place). Many real hackers (not those shitty script kiddies) spend all their restless hours reading and, yes even, HACKING! (Hacking doesn’t necessarily (but usually does) mean breaking into another system. It could mean just working on your own system, BUT NOT WINDOWS ‘9x (unless you’re doing some really frightening registry shit, in which case, you’re kind of cool).

You’re probably thinking, “Then what should I do. If no one’s going to help me, how can I learn to hack?” Have you ever tried READING (I assume this far that you are literate). Read anything and all you can get your hands on! I recommend hitting a computer stock up and looking for discount books (books that are usually out of date, but so are a lot of the systems on the ‘net, so they’re still relevant!). You’ll be amazed what you can learn from a book even when you’re paying a dollar for every hundred pages. I recommend the next books to start off with:
* Maximum Security I or II: this is not a guide to hacking, despite what you strength have heard, but you can get sufficient info to learn the basics of how hackers hack! (Isn’t that more fun than being lamed, email bombed, and kicked off IRC).
* Practical Unix and Internet safety (Sec. Edition): This is mostly a book about how to secure Unix (if you don’t know what Unix is, either shoot yourself now, or read O’Reilly’s Learning the Unix OS), but half of learning to hack is learning a system from the within out. How can you expect to hack a site (w/o using a kiddie script, which i must restate, is NOT hacking) if you don’t know how to use the system?
* Linux Unleashed/Red Hat Linux Unleashed: these books are kind of cool. First of all, they come with Red Hat Linux 5.1 and 5.2 respectively (if you get the latest versions of the book, which you should). Read all you can from it.
* Send mail in a nutshell: This is only after you read everything else. Send mail, for those of you who still don’t know, is a program that sends mail. It sounds dim, but this is a buggy program, and usually is the avenue of attack many hackers take because of it’s vulnerabilities.
* TCP/IP Blueprints: this will clear up a lot of things about TCP/IP.
* TCP/IP Administration: haven’t read it, but can’t wait to! (I’ve been bogged downward by a lot of other REAL computer stuff)।

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