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Hello, all. I am a young one-man industrial band from Oklahoma (US) calling myself The Organized Resistance. I have been in music for many years, but my other major passion is computers.

Naturally, it didn't take long to find myself lost in the backwater annals of hacktivist/computer anti-culture. However, I have no idea how to do all of these things, and beyond BBC and a basic understanding of HTML, I have no coding abilities. I'm here to learn the things that I need to know to be somewhat fluent in compters and security, as opposed to the 1337 5p33<!N n00bl37 that I am now.

My only experience with computers are MMOs and FPSs, but I'm trying to change that.

-TOR

was that nooblet? or nooblel?

Hello

wow I had to look the up....MMO and FPS...your either a very good gamer....or a fax machine ;)

Thats cause I am really old and out of the loop....well lets just say...I am in a different loop

Welcome.. :)

MLF

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Originally Posted by xiphias360

was that nooblet? or nooblel?

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Haha, nooblet, my dear watson.

Hi, and welcome to AO.

My advice, don't go around telling people your learning how to become a hacker =)

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I'm here to learn the things that I need to know to be a hacker

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I think you're already going about things the wrong way. Personally, I got into computers because I like them... not because I wanted to be something.

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and beyond BBC

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dear watson.

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After that I had to post this link...

Hi and welcome to AO.

I believe that in order to be a good security analyst you have to know what a hacker does etc etc. However people will come here saying that to try and learn how to hack. Indefinately it is not AO's problem whether you use your knowledge to hack or to know what exactly is going on.

My suggestion is to read up on the tutorials on the website and go through the newsletters. I went through the first two newsletters while at work and have found out some interesting concepts etc. Just remember this is a professional site but im sure Nihil will explain that to you when he replies to this post :)

Enjoy ...

Thank you for the advice. I did not mean it in the sense that I wanted to learn how to hack people for information or gain or whatever, so I guess I won't use that term from here on.

It's okay, we understand that it's a double-edged sword. In order to secure something, you must know how to breach it. Either that or you have to hire someone who does.

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Originally Posted by ArPaNET

Hi, and welcome to AO.

My advice, don't go around telling people your learning how to become a hacker =)

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Yes, the accepted vernacular is "penetration tester" :D

You don't have to know anything about malware to setup a limited user account and have a nice policy... maybe setup something like tripwire while you're at it. Anyone with a web browser could find something wrong with with web applications and fix it. You could forget everything you ever knew about computers today and start fuzzing programs tomarrow.

Hmmm...I hadn't thought of it that way before.

What, exactly, did that mean?

It was in response to what Cider and JPnyc said. To a large extent, computer security is an over exaggeration of quality control.

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Originally Posted by Alec Empire

To a large extent, computer security is an over exaggeration of quality control.

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Feck ME! ^ is one of the best explanations I have ever heard.

Nicely said.

btw, glad to see you haven't dropped completely off the planet.

Dino