I have to agree ..........

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I am not condoning hacking (ethically or not) and am in no way promulgating AO as a hackers site.
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But for those members that wish to learn about hacking - books written on it are not the best nor recommended way to go about this - because of the glamorization of the 'trade' in movies over the last few years - books on it are aimed mostly at money-making rather than viable information.

If you are really serious about learning to hack - read books on security, OS's and the infrastructure of the internet along with learning to program - until you dedicate yourself to that course you will never be anything else but - what are the 'hackerisms' ........... |@m3r$ and scriptkiddies - I guess are the appropriate terminologies