You're not a hacker until a hacker calls you a hacker. ( http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#hacker_alread... )
Definitely one of his more pretentious essays. I'll call myself whatever I want. Who made him 'hacker' gatekeeper?
How to be a hacker
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#22Yes, using nmap, metasploit and meterpreter totally makes you a hacker.
Not even Norton can protect you from those tools. I think you need to re-evaluate what you think you know about hacking.
Hmmm norton can not, but PF & SNORT can ;)
Seriously 'security' and 'Microsoft' do not play well in the same sentence.
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#23'Eye of the beholder, as always. To my grandmom, I'm an elite weapons-grade hacker because I hit Ctrl-B to bold something in MSWord rather than clicking the button for it.
Totally. For all my real life friends I am beyond comparison when it comes to computers. Reading people's comments around here or on SO makes me think I know nothing...
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#24You're not a hacker until a hacker calls you a hacker. ( http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#hacker_alread... )
You're not an artist until an artist calls you an artist.
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#25Serious question: how insecure is Mac OS X to this kind of stuff?
How up-to-date with patches is that Mac OS X?
Safari doesn't have a great track record.
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#26You're not a hacker until a hacker calls you a hacker. ( http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#hacker_alread... )
Definitely one of his more pretentious essays. I'll call myself whatever I want. Who made him 'hacker' gatekeeper?
I’ll call you a hacker whenever I decide to. Who made you the arbiter of whether you should be called a hacker?
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#27I thought this was going to be about bash, vi, SICP, cryptanalysis, emacs, asm, or maybe something about 3d printers, or fpgas, or soldering fine point smd ICs onto home stenciled PCBs. This isn't about being a hacker at all. It's about doing some entry level penetration testing with a software suite designed for that purpose.
That was also my initial takeaway. To me hacking is about understanding how it all works. Using a tool isn't a problem but the guy that wrote the tool is a hacker, and you're only a hacker if you understand what it is you're doing well enough that you can solve unfamiliar problems that the tool doesn't already cover. Otherwise you are going to get stumped, which translates into getting caught.
To look at it another way: installing wordpress with some plugins doesn't make you a web developer.
Edit: I took this article's bait but I realized afterwards that this was all to ride off the recent Target fiasco.
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#30I'm going to put up 7 firewalls and buy a dog.
unplug the computer, stick it in a vault and hire armed guards.