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Re: How to learn hacking

#11
So what's the business of this company and its CEO? Other than trying to collect subscribers to his blog.

Also really confusing name considering there's the Finnish security company called F-Secure who also have a technical blog: https://labsblog.f-secure.com/

And now also run a security course in Helsinki University: http://mooc.fi/courses/2016/cybersecurity/

Re: How to learn hacking

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I find it deeply disappointing that this totally skips some very important parts, namely attitude, motivation and ethics. (Except for so-called "Ethical Hacking". On the other hand, what should one expect from the blog of a security company?) I recommend the all-time classic "How To Become A Hacker" by Eric S. Raymond: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

ESR is a racist and a misogynist. And that document might as well be called "how to be ESR".

Not to mention violently right-wing and believes he was, for a short period, a god[1] >.>

[1]: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/dancing.html

Re: How to learn hacking

#14
If people actually care about this topic, and want to see someone doing a genuinely good job, check out LiveOverflow. Some other posters here will make fun of his dubstep intro music, green on black terminal text intro with the Rabbit, but he admitted in his first QA it was tongue and cheek.

His subreddit:

https://reddit.com/r/liveoverflow

His YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClcE-kVhqyiHCcjYwcpfj9w

I have taken more traditional infosec coursework for $DAYJOB. I must say this stuff, the more novice stuff beneath and the more advanced stuff above my head, is well structured, even if informal, entertaining, and inspiring. I definitely want to give back to the community like him with solid content and a very unassuming attitude. This is exactly the kind of teacher we need in this space!

(This is not to say F Security is assuming or crappy, I just wanted to talk up someone who really is teaching how to hack the way I think it ought to be done!)

Re: How to learn hacking

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post #9
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I find it deeply disappointing that this totally skips some very important parts, namely attitude, motivation and ethics. (Except for so-called "Ethical Hacking". On the other hand, what should one expect from the blog of a security company?) I recommend the all-time classic "How To Become A Hacker" by Eric S. Raymond: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

ESR is a racist and a misogynist. And that document might as well be called "how to be ESR".

What if we separated his work from himself?

I don't know Eric enough. I know he is right wing, but not sure if he is racist.

Suppose he is a racist, can't his text about being a hacker be great?

I read "How to become a hacker" in 2014. It is awesome and he does not say anything about woman and race on the text.

According to some historians, Da Vinci was a dushbag. Should we ignore his crafts just because, apparently, he was a bad person?

I don't think so.

Re: How to learn hacking

#17

Link is dead and returns this error: "This Account has been suspended. Contact your hosting provider for more information." _________ Google's Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Link works fine for me.

Re: How to learn hacking

#18

Link is dead and returns this error: "This Account has been suspended. Contact your hosting provider for more information." _________ Google's Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Link works fine for me.

Agree, it's back up (right now); it was down for 30-40 minutes though.

Re: How to learn hacking

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post #14

If people actually care about this topic, and want to see someone doing a genuinely good job, check out LiveOverflow. Some other posters here will make fun of his dubstep intro music, green on black terminal text intro with the Rabbit, but he admitted in his first QA it was tongue and cheek. His subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/liveoverflow His YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClcE-kVhqyiHCcjYwcpfj9w…

Thank you so much!

I have also recently started building https://liveoverflow.com, which might have a better structure than a YouTube channel or subreddit.

Also some people may have actually seen a video of mine, because my most popular video so far is the DirtyCow video which got referenced by news sites and on the dirtycow github repository.

My personal recommendation is to checkout the AngularJS Sandbox bypass series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhixgUqwRTjwJTIkNopKu...

Criticism and feedback is always welcome.

Re: How to learn hacking

#20
As a junior security employee, I am still trying to figure out where to take my career. I have thought about various different paths: pentesting, development (JS, C, python, exploit...), reverse-engineering, web-app hacking, network-engineering and I cannot for the life of me decide where to focus my studies. I have reservations about pentesting because For example, I think a lot of it is unskilled work (e.g., pressing scan on nessus, clicking exploit on Burp) or work which will be automated in the near future. So for those who are more experienced than me, or for those who can share some insight on security-careers, what tech-careers would you choose and what would you study if you were starting right now?
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