Make me less dumb, please!
I'd like to write a cyberpunk hacker story. Some characters, some settings, and some hardware have been floating about my skull of late and they're starting to coagulate into a story that is increasingly insistent that I write it.
The problem is that I know next to nothing about hacking. This is bad for writing a hacker story. This pretty much gurantees that the story will suck. As a matter of fact, I don't really see how it can avoid sucking at this point since even if I learn a lot of interesting stuff I'll still be inexperienced and blah blah you get it, I'm sure.
Anyway if you have any newb-type information contact me please!
Also I'd greatly appreciate it should anyone feel like answering silly questions such as:
What kind of hardware would the main character want?
What are some good hacker-type names, real and/or pseudonyms?
Is "X" feasible? (Where X is whatever dumbass idea I've come up with at the time)
->etc.
Earthan ([email protected])
P.S. I'm not a hacker. I'm not a cop. I'm not even a Catholic. I'm just a bored guy who doesn't want to contribute to the vast sea of heinous science-fiction which I'm practically drowning in already.