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How To Become A Hacker

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MetalheadGautham
MetalheadGautham Original post #1
Jan 14, 2009 at 6:35 PM
This is an all time great book most of you HAVE to read just for the fun of it.
Its written by Eric S Raymond.

*www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

:D
BSOD
BSOD #3
Jan 14, 2009 at 7:55 PM
@Gautham: This is exactly what I was talking about the other day.
Ecstasy
Ecstasy #4
Jan 14, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Yeah, i have seen this site before. I think this link is posted already somewhere on the forum.
MetalheadGautham
Jan 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM
@Gautham: This is exactly what I was talking about the other day.
Yeah. I know. Pretty good. Does this come in hard copy ? I don't mind spending Rs. 20/- on a cheap print on the streets (if this is GFDL) :D
Kl@w-24
Kl@w-24 #6
Jan 14, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Pretty old, but fascinating. I first read it about 4 years ago.
Faun
Faun #7
Jan 14, 2009 at 11:56 PM
this is haxxorz now !
damngoodman999
Jan 15, 2009 at 12:03 AM
As i was also aiming to become as one of the HACKER ,

But simple techniques of Hacking which teaching in centers are irrelevant to my studies as i am MCA and not that much effective on the Big servers , Firewall routers etc.
Before 6 months a programmer told that the real hackers are otherwise called as super programmers and should know about languages & operating system .

c,c++,java,python are the languages used on servers tools like eclipse & os solaris are really needed for hacking with the servers
Operating systems - starting with LINUX & Unix are completely known for the hackers & should know to delete the virus manually , Completely known on the worms & trojans creating with C language

He told me start with Linux , i started with RHCE last 5 months now only I am Certified , gosh i am really forgeting about hacking aims now this is really for Advanced and heavy brains !!

:(I am only poor brain :( some how i got sick with is hacking ,, any way RHCE , CCNA & MCA degree will get me job atleast

May be next life i ll be trying from my birth:D
MetalheadGautham
Jan 15, 2009 at 12:10 AM
I appear to fulfill several of the lifestyle positives in a hacker, but for knowing martial arts and reading proposterous science fiction :D
Faun
Faun #10
Jan 15, 2009 at 12:22 AM
^^ Seal of ratification not approved.
Faun
Faun #12
Jan 15, 2009 at 12:47 AM
^^holly-molly, whip out the dictionary then :D I am reading Shakespeare for sometime.
damngoodman999
Jan 15, 2009 at 1:13 AM
That's why u r not a hacker in this life. Try next time from the beginning as u have said.


Ya thanks man , This is not new for me i am hearing from all of my friends & outsiders ,

Its u now thank you :::(
MetalheadGautham
Jan 15, 2009 at 1:31 AM
^^holly-molly, whip out the dictionary then :D I am reading Shakespeare for sometime.
Glad to see a fellow shakespeare fan :D
Ceasar said:
"Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once."
Never ever forget stuff like that :D

BTW, do Dan Brown books constitute science fiction ?
alexanderthegreat
Jan 15, 2009 at 4:47 PM
I remember reading this 3 years ago and disagreeing with the author. I always thought this book should've been named, "How to prepare yourself for hacker training courses by implementing a supposed hacker-personality". But that's too long a title. And I still oppose his opinion of Windows as a "body-cast".

OFFTOPIC:
@MetalheadGautham: et tu gauth'? Nice! Now I know I'm not the only one who likes reading Shakespeare! Oh, and check this out, you may find this interesting: *www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html? :D
MetalheadGautham
May 13, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Bump. Anybody finished reading this yet ? :D
G
May 13, 2009 at 2:24 PM
^^ only thing that was said use python n dont ask question...solve ur question by curiosity to b hacker
j1n M@tt
j1n M@tt #19
May 13, 2009 at 2:48 PM
nice tip MetelHead.....but I hav noticed one thing after going throu many hackers' tutorials after all these yrs, they wont just say things easily...they always say simple things in an indirect manner instead of telling things straight. True hackers don't want us to know wat they know in real, dats the truth. There are only a few of them I know who so far like to share something they know.
naveen_reloaded
May 13, 2009 at 3:32 PM
is hacking related topics allowed here ?
Liverpool_fan
May 13, 2009 at 3:36 PM
^ ^ ^
I don't think you read the article in question. ;)
MetalheadGautham
May 13, 2009 at 3:37 PM
If you had read the link'd article, you wouldn't have asked that question :p

Eric S Raymond said:
What Is a Hacker?

The Jargon File contains a bunch of definitions of the term ‘hacker’, most having to do with technical adeptness and a delight in solving problems and overcoming limits. If you want to know how to become a hacker, though, only two are really relevant.

There is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking wizards that traces its history back through decades to the first time-sharing minicomputers and the earliest ARPAnet experiments. The members of this culture originated the term ‘hacker’. Hackers built the Internet. Hackers made the Unix operating system what it is today. Hackers run Usenet. Hackers make the World Wide Web work. If you are part of this culture, if you have contributed to it and other people in it know who you are and call you a hacker, you're a hacker.

The hacker mind-set is not confined to this software-hacker culture. There are people who apply the hacker attitude to other things, like electronics or music — actually, you can find it at the highest levels of any science or art. Software hackers recognize these kindred spirits elsewhere and may call them ‘hackers’ too — and some claim that the hacker nature is really independent of the particular medium the hacker works in. But in the rest of this document we will focus on the skills and attitudes of software hackers, and the traditions of the shared culture that originated the term ‘hacker’.

There is another group of people who loudly call themselves hackers, but aren't. These are people (mainly adolescent males) who get a kick out of breaking into computers and phreaking the phone system. Real hackers call these people ‘crackers’ and want nothing to do with them. Real hackers mostly think crackers are lazy, irresponsible, and not very bright, and object that being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker any more than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer. Unfortunately, many journalists and writers have been fooled into using the word ‘hacker’ to describe crackers; this irritates real hackers no end.

The basic difference is this: hackers build things, crackers break them.

So... I hope that answers your question
naveen_reloaded
May 13, 2009 at 3:51 PM
ooopppsss

i went thru on the top level ...

sorry guys
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sre06 #24
May 13, 2009 at 3:54 PM
learn hacking from ankit fadia The ethical hacking
Liverpool_fan
May 13, 2009 at 3:56 PM
That book is useless...
skeletor
skeletor #26
May 13, 2009 at 4:57 PM
Start speaking |337. 95% of the n00bs will start respecting you thinking that you are a hacker. :|

Rest 5% will become your 'chamchas' and I think they'll not understand what you write....

And the other people like me, who don't come in the category of n00bs :p, will not bother reading what you write. :lol: