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- " Teach me how to hack !@#$ "
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- by Ixl
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- Teach me how to hack ! i wanna be a hacker ! how do i use winnuke ? I'm
- sure most of you either hear these questions or are the one's asking them.
- I'm writing this article for the people who are asking them,i've decided that
- i'm sick of hearing these questions on irc and everywhere else for that matter.
- So load up ms word kiddy's and start reading.
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- Now i'm sure most of you wannabe-hackers must think that "hacking" is
- something glorious and the "in" thing these days,let me fill you in on a little
- secret,it's not ! First off let's define hacking,in my opinion hacking is not
- defacing websites,it is not launching denial of service attacks against servers
- ,it's not running the latest exploit against unpatched boxes. These are all
- things that *almost* anyone can do,they are not very complicated and do not
- take much technical ability. What is hacking you ask ? Well depending on whom
- you ask,you will get a different answers,if your asking me,i would have to say
- hacking == the pursuit of knowledge ,that is the simplest way i can put it,it's
- not the pursuit of knowing how to run the latest version of winnuke,it's the
- pursuit of learning how an operating system works,how programs are written,why
- certain things work the way they do. In all honesty this is not an overnight
- thing,it is a life long journey which never ends,to be a hacker is to strive
- day in,day out to educate yourself and move ahead. Now you might be thinking
- at this point that i'm full of shit because i don't type in l33t hax0r sp3ak ,
- the truth is ,i think it's pointless,and nobody undertands what the fuck your
- saying,don't do it ! Also i'd like to point out that i'm *not* claiming to be
- a hacker,nor have i ever made that claim,i simply love computer's,i love
- hacking my config files,i love shiny new boxes to old 386's,i love seeing
- something i never have and experiencing the joy's of learning about it. That
- is what "hacking" is about,creating things and doing things for positive
- instead of negative.
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- Now i'm sure at this point your probably wondering, "when is this guy gonna
- teach us how to be hackers ? " ,well i can't do that,nobody can,only you can do
- that.What i can do is point you in the right direction. I'm sure i've lost
- about 75% of you reading this becasue i'm not giving out "10 steps to root" or
- "cracking porn sites",but for the rest of you 25% that are actually interested
- in moving ahead and actually understanding how that big white box on your desk
- works,i will help you out. First off if you don't love your computer and enjoy
- sitting in front of it for endless hours,your probably not gonna get very far,
- learning takes much time and patience,it is not an easy task,but if you are
- motivated and are willing to put in the time,your already ahead of the 75% of
- the kids who just want to brake into things for no reason. Let's start with the
- machine right next to you,have you ever taken it apart and looked inside ? Do
- you know how your machine boots up and communicates with your hardware ? If
- the answers are no then you should definately start there. Go out and look for
- some text files on the basics of how computer's work,almost any old dos book
- will cover the boot process,how programs are loaded into memory and why,how the
- operating system is the "shell" between you and your hardware. You must start
- at the beggining and learn about the basics before you can move on,there are
- millions of text files out there,more than you could read in a lifetime.
- Instead of using your internet account to lounge on irc and ask people for
- answers,go out and find them ! If you don't know how to do that,then load up
- your browser and go to www.yahoo.com , it will be a great help to you. After
- you've learned about your machine and all the peices inside you will have a
- better understanding of why your computer behaves the way it does,and why the
- operating system is so important. I'm assuming the majority of you are running
- win95,and are comfortable with it,i'm not going to tell you to switch to
- another one,but i will tell you this,win95 is not the only operating system
- out there. There are many other's that are much nicer (IMHO),if you want to
- get into networking and understanding how computer's communicate,start with
- an operating system that has more features and was designed with networking
- capabilities in mind,try freebsd or linux, you'll be amazed at how much more
- you will understand when your editing all your configuration files by hand,
- instead of some stupid wizard doing it for you .
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- Now at this point i'm hoping your interested and want to go even further
- to your quest of being a hacker,i'm sure you've realized by now that a unix
- based operating system is very important and can help you a lot more. Also i
- would like to point out that if you've installed linux or bsd that there is
- plenty of documentation that comes with them,and that reading them before you
- ask questions is the smart thing to do. Next on the list would be learning
- about networking,learn how computer's communicate on a network,there are
- unlimited texts on this and i'm sure by now you know how to find them. After
- that move on to a programming language,if your not ready for that start writing
- small shell scripts,then eventually move on to C . After all this you will
- realize the joy of learning on your own,the thrill of solving a problem all by
- yourself,i'm not saying don't ask questions,just make sure you've tried to
- answer them for yourself before asking someone else.
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- In conclusion,you've now probably have a good idea of where you can go
- with all this,the possibility's are endless. No longer will you have to rely
- on other people to get where you want to go,you will hopefully be self-reliant
- and eager to push yourself,and this is what *hacking* is about.
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