Alright..I will admit, I am as new to this as they come. I have been reading some of the articles on AO for some time,
and just desided it was time to set up and account and start to post questions. I belive the correct term for me is a
"white hat newbie"?. I have been looking around for information on hacking, you know the game. You find information
about how some kid hacked into AOL or the pentegon and you wonder what tools they use ect. So...Im walking through
the computer store looking for a cool hacking book because I would really like to get to know how to hack little bit better,
and I come across this book called " The unoficial guide to ethical hacking". What the hell is ethical hacking I thought. Why
everyone knows that hackers try to destroy your computer and cause maham! Was I ever wrong!! This book opened a
whole new world for me. Then it mentioned this site. So I came here and started to read, most was just a bunch of punk
kids wanting to know how to hack into this and that. Then I started learning about how to hack your registry, how to
take control of your operating sytem. Then Im surfing on here, reading various posts about people wanting to do this and
that, walking around in my flame retardent uniform becasue people are getting toasted left and right, when I come across
Ennis's right up about newbie FAQ's. This is what I have been looking for !!! This is what hacking is all about. !! So...
I just wanted to take some time and thank the lot of you for the information that you have given, the sites that I have
visited, and now I understand or am starting to understand, what true power is. True power is not hacking into your friends
system or your schools mainframe to delete a bunch of files. True power is when you look into the eyes of the network
admin and realize his fear that you now know how to hack the registry to display all the hard drives that he has hidden,
and not only do you know how to do it...but you know what the registry keys mean, you have understanding instead of
memorizing some path.

Again, thank you.

Now.....to pop over to the newbie section and start posting my questions!!!