Hacking 'common sense' tips
--originally by Bronc Buster
Tip #1 - Hacking, hacking is NOT e-mail bombing, being an IRC warrior or
harassing someone. It is the long honored trade of learning about Operating
Systems, Unix for expamle as it's the most popular, and getting to know how
it works inside and out. How to program for it, how to manipulate it and
control it. If you don't know about an Operating System you want to get
into, go learn about it. There is no magic command or word or program, that
I know of, that will let you get and takeover any system with a wave of a
wand. It just don't happen that way.
Tip #2 - This goes with Tip #1, go to school, or get some books and learn.
Read all you can about Unix, C and TCI/IP. I won't lie, it won't happen over
night, it's taken me 2 years of hard core dedication to get to the state I'm
at now, and still I can't keep up with it! For the begginner, get a book on
Unix, learn it, read it over and over until you KNOW it.
Tip #3 - Recources, and where do you get them? Well the best place to find
information on the latest security flaws and hole in not CERN. They post
only after the problem is fixed and every sysadmin and their mother knows
the fix. Go to News Groups. Not the lame ones like "alt.hackers", the only
people you find there are little kids on AOL wanting to know those magic
words. Get on groups like "comp.security.unix", these are where the BIG boys
hang out. The CEO from Sun Microsystmes posts to it, head honchos from
Novell and University Professiors all use these. They post questions and
possable fixes to holes no one has even thought about yet. They are gold
mines.
Tip #3 - I know this may sound lame to the more vetren hacker, but get
invloved in a group. The ones I'm in are always passing new information to
each other and doing, or working on little projects. I'm always amazed on
what I learn from other members of my group.
Tip #4 - Don't e-mail people with kick ass web sites and ask them to help
you be a hacker. Most of the time they think you are just some lamer and
trash your e-mail. Like I said, It's taken me two years to get where I am
now, I'm NOT going to take two years to teach you what I know. Like I said
above, get a book, go to school. read, read, read....
Tip #4 - Screw IRC, the people that you may talk to there are either there
just to chat, or are big head ego inflated dicks. There is NO way anyone
will learn anything on IRC, save how to be an IRC warrior. So skip it.
Tip #5 - Before you go around bugging other people asking them tons of
questions, go look for the answer yourself. Thats a key aspect for a good
hacker; to be able to track down and find little tid bits of information on
obscure topics.
Tip #6 - I think I might of said this before, but get familer with C or a C
based programming language like PERL, Java, or VC++. 90% of hacking has to
do with you writing, or using some sort of script written in C or PERL to
open up an exploit or hole.
Well thats all I can think of for now......
