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Re: How to Become a Hacker

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Post by wiz21c »

elsjaako wrote: post #3
hummel wrote: post #2

If you need to ask How to Become a Hacker, you are not going to be one. It all depends on your personal curiosity, either you have it or you don't. PS: Found 0day on Paypal when I was 12 in the early '00s, never got paid or recognized for it :(

There is a certain kind of person that will become some kind of hacker no matter what, but with advice and guidance they will get a lot further than without.

Definitely. I had an hacker's mind from age 0. Mind you, I felt in love with hackers of my time when I was 12 years old. But unfortunately, I had to learn by myself. I didn't have a mentor around me (and my parents could not keep up) for a number of years. Eventually, I ended in the demo scene and there I found a bit of help. It took me so much time. And when I compare to other hackers who had friends in the business, they just learned faster than me :-(

So, even though it sounds obvious : the number one priority is meeting other people, sharing information. Social skills are sooo important if you're not an absolute genius...

Re: How to Become a Hacker

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Post by mettamage »

kebman wrote: post #10

A lot of hacking is done simply because public and private databases and systems just aren't good enough to serve those that they were made to serve. This made me a "hacker," in that I created programs, crawlers and spiders to find and put together the information I needed for my everyday work as a teacher (all legal, of course, though highly unconventional). I once told my boss about one such idea I had, that I thou…

I think this idea is what the OSINT community does. Step 1: scrape websites, step 2: put it in a database.

Well, I guess you actually found databases instead of scraping sites. The OSINT community does that too.

Re: How to Become a Hacker

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Post by rashkov »

mettamage wrote: post #19

I'm reposting part of a comment I wrote (and adding to it). My version on how to become a hacker. It's just another reference point. Step 1: Go to http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html Step 1b (bonus): read Hacker News (it actually helped, it also really distracted, the latter part is why it's labeled as bonus ) Step 2: Complete Binary and Malware Analysis at the Vrije Universiteit Step 3: Complete Computer…

Are those courses at Vrije Universiteit open in some way? Is the best approach to grab the syllabus for each one and go through it that way?

Re: How to Become a Hacker

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Post by cutler »

Sometime last year I was taking a short bus ride home from a local supermarket in Leytonstone (London) when a passenger boarded with a slightly louder American voice. I thought he looked familiar then it hit me - Richard Stallman. I didn't have much time to decide what to do as he was about to get off at the next stop so I left the bus at the same stop and caught up with him. After an introduction and short conversation about Emacs and the Free Software Foundation he drew his sword upon which I kneeled and was dubbed a hacker. That's how it's done.

Aw, alright - the sword bit is fictitious but the rest is true. Contact with a deity can confer status.

Re: How to Become a Hacker

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Post by m1117 »

This is confusing. "Hacker" is a person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data. "Software Engineer" is the right approach. "Hacker Spirit" lol

Re: How to Become a Hacker

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Post by daffy »

cutler wrote: post #26

Sometime last year I was taking a short bus ride home from a local supermarket in Leytonstone (London) when a passenger boarded with a slightly louder American voice. I thought he looked familiar then it hit me - Richard Stallman. I didn't have much time to decide what to do as he was about to get off at the next stop so I left the bus at the same stop and caught up with him. After an introduction and short conversat…

You kneeled on his sword?

Re: How to Become a Hacker

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Post by brunoqc »

m1117 wrote: post #27

This is confusing. "Hacker" is a person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data. "Software Engineer" is the right approach. "Hacker Spirit" lol

You can't use "engineer" in Canada without complete studies in engineering and paying money every year to be a member of their club.
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