• To be a good hacker

    From Byron Onyango@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 6 04:02:24 2021
    Hi, I want to develop skills to be a good hacker. What can I do?

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  • From JJ@21:1/5 to Byron Onyango on Fri Aug 6 19:08:38 2021
    On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 04:02:24 -0700 (PDT), Byron Onyango wrote:
    Hi, I want to develop skills to be a good hacker. What can I do?

    What did you already know so far?

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  • From Auric__@21:1/5 to Byron Onyango on Fri Aug 6 17:25:00 2021
    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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