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Re: How to Become a Hacker

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Post by dsiah »

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…

Serious Question, why is there such a heavy infatuation / prerequisite to running Linux to become a hacker?

Is it for folks who are focused on going below the application layer (working on OS/Kernal etc) or just general. I find my MacOS to be such a comfortable system to hack and wonder if I actually need to move to Linux natively to get more involved in projects below the application layer.

Re: How to Become a Hacker

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Post by dmos62 »

arexxbifs wrote: post #11

My best advice to any budding hacker would be for them to find a job as unrelated to computers as possible, but which leaves them with enough free time to tinker with whatever currently tickles their fancy.

Sounds like you have bad computer job experiences.

Re: How to Become a Hacker

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Post by systems »

I dont understand what he means when he said

"(a good example book for this currently is Designing Data Intensive Applications)."

I got this book recently and was planning to read it soon, does he thinks the tools and techniques mentioned in the book are a waste of time, or the opposite?

Re: How to Become a Hacker

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Post by sabas123 »

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…

I don't get this comment, it feels like "just follow a master in security lmao".

Re: How to Become a Hacker

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Post by pacomerh »

I don't like this new definition of the word "hacker". I wish people would call builders and tinkerers something else. We have all this strong history with hackers who are the ones that infiltrate systems. And now someone makes an app and he/she is a hacker. Somehow I feel like there's a necessity to feel special and unique. This word is so soft now.

Re: How to Become a Hacker

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Post by arexxbifs »

dmos62 wrote: post #82
arexxbifs wrote: post #11

My best advice to any budding hacker would be for them to find a job as unrelated to computers as possible, but which leaves them with enough free time to tinker with whatever currently tickles their fancy.

Sounds like you have bad computer job experiences.

20+ years on I've had some good, some bad and some occasionally wonderful. It's not a bad profession, as professions go: things are generally very cushy and you can, from time to time, experience the same elation as when exploring on your own (though, for me, it's getting increasingly rare).

It's a big difference between sating your own curiosity in a hackeresque way, learning about what interests you, programming whatever the heck you like, and working professionally with software development.

If there's a programming job with no specs, no customer demands, no deadlines, no legacy maintenance, no market pressure, no platform preferences or language requirements, please let me know, would you? :)

Re: How to Become a Hacker

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Post by bitwize »

pacomerh wrote: post #85

I don't like this new definition of the word "hacker". I wish people would call builders and tinkerers something else. We have all this strong history with hackers who are the ones that infiltrate systems. And now someone makes an app and he/she is a hacker. Somehow I feel like there's a necessity to feel special and unique. This word is so soft now.

The builder/tinkerer meaning predated the infiltrator meaning by like a couple of decades, but whatever, okay, zoomer.

Re: How to Become a Hacker

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Post by read_if_gay_ »

pacomerh wrote: post #85

I don't like this new definition of the word "hacker". I wish people would call builders and tinkerers something else. We have all this strong history with hackers who are the ones that infiltrate systems. And now someone makes an app and he/she is a hacker. Somehow I feel like there's a necessity to feel special and unique. This word is so soft now.

Absolutely agreed, the word used to carry a good bit of street cred but now everyone and their grandma is a hacker.

Re: How to Become a Hacker

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Post by gonehome »

systems wrote: post #83

I dont understand what he means when he said "(a good example book for this currently is Designing Data Intensive Applications)." I got this book recently and was planning to read it soon, does he thinks the tools and techniques mentioned in the book are a waste of time, or the opposite?

Ah sorry that's unclear, I meant I thought that book was really good for, "just learning more about the craft of programming in general".
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