Byron Onyango wrote:
Hi, I want to develop skills to be a good hacker. What can I do?
1. What is your idea of what a "hacker" is?
2. What do you want to hack?
3. *Why* do you want to hack?
4: A few links:
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacking-howto.html
You might want to read through Harlequin's old alt.2600 FAQ:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-2600/faq/
...but that is *OLD*. ("Last-modified: 2000/05/29")
You could also try googling "alt.binaries.hacking.beginner fia" (FIA = "Frequently Ignored Answers") for an old FAQ-style document I used to
maintain, but, well, good luck with that. (I haven't posted it in ~16 years, so...) Here is perhaps the single most important thing from that document:
Before you read this FIA, I (Auric__) am going to give you my single best
piece of advice: DON'T HACK! Obviously, the laws will vary [from place to
place], but most activities commonly referred to as "hacking" by the press
are potentially illegal and could get you arrested.
(If you do manage to find a copy, bear in mind that all of the links are, again, 16+ years old.)
Finally... your question is off-topic for this group. You might get better answers from Big Bad Bob in alt.hacker, if you're polite. Unfortunately, the majority of the classic "hacking" newsgroups are dead. Bob is the last of
the old crew still posting, AFAIK. (I don't include myself as part of the
old crew; I only started posting in the late 90's.)
--
All I can do is offer choices.
That's all anybody in this life gets: choices.
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