Rant: How do I hack Hotmail?
This is written in response to threads like these:
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=226665
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=228675
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=225785
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...threadid=17949
It still astonishes me how ofter the, "How do I hack (insert lame entity here)? question gets asked by newbies. It's the sheer ignorance of these questions that really gets to me. It's obvious that the people who ask this question have no concept of what hacking is or even what email is. This question is actually an insult.
Let's get this straight. Hacking is a state of mind. Hackers just love learning everything about everything about how things work. This is a broad definition but anything else would be missing the mark. Hacking is the quest for knowledge. How you use this knowledge is up to you.
Asking how to hack is like asking how to learn. Sorry but it's impossible to teach someone how to learn. Everybody learns differently. Most people learn how to learn during their preschool years and spend the rest of their lives refining this skill. Want to learn? Do it on your own. No one can do it for you.
Here's an exercise for you. Whenever you see the word, "hack", substitute it with the word, "learn". "How do I hack Hotmail?" becomes, "how do I learn Hotmail?" Now you're looking at it from the right point of view.
Let's get another thing straight. Hotmail is the name for an email service run by a company. There's no one way to hack an email service. Email services can be implemented in many different ways. If you know nothing about SMTP, POP, IMAP, MUA's, MTA's or any of the OS's that they run on, you don't know enough to even attempt "hacking hotmail".
If you don't know anything about the above, please **** off!