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- vectorcrash, on 11/13/2007, -3/+561. Come up with a badass name ie: SuperLazer, The Plague, ZeroCool.
2. Hack the Gibson.
3. Copy the garbage file.
And finally...
4. Rollerblade down the street in traffic to Prodigy's VooDoo People or One Love.
That's all there is to it! - eplawless, on 10/12/2007, -10/+62A Guide on How To Become A Programmer On Open Source Projects That Has Nothing At All To Do With Security Or Hacking, Written Entirely In Camel Case
:( - limitedmoon, on 10/12/2007, -9/+45Ramzi already taught me all I needed to know about hacking. No digg.
- i440, on 10/12/2007, -9/+38I seriously believe that this is one of the worst open-source related articles ever written.
If you want to write open source software, then /write it in whichever manner you please/. There's no need to file yourself into a category or fulfill Eric Raymond's perception of what a...“hacker”...should be. - gaijin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31You forgot:
5. Hack the office building across the street so the lighted windows spell out the names of you and your 1337 girlfriend. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+33WRONG, should be
"3. Learn how to connect the tubes and become a dump truck mechanic." - Reno582, on 10/12/2007, -5/+301. Decide which language you want to learn
2. Buy Manual and Reference book on said language (Herbert Schildt for C and C++)
3. Buy or download an IDE for the language you are going to learn
4. Type up first program
5. Build first program
6. Debug first program
7. Build first program again
8. Debug first program again
9. Prepare final build of first program
10. Bugtest first program
11. Patch first program
12. Sleep under desk
13. After resting for two hours Bugtest first program again
14. Rinse and Repeat for twenty years - ad0beaddict, on 10/12/2007, -8/+32Ramzi is 1337 "hacker friend bitches"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23I cringe every time I see one of these "hacker howto" articles. Real hackers dont need an article to know how to RTFM.
- jexdawg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Yes, this bugged me too. One of the points in the article is to learn English.
- MYarms, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22"3. Learn how to use the World Wide Web and write HTML."
LOL - ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23"A Guide on How To Become A Ethical Hacker"
An - dgendreau, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19I personally believe that musical notation is one of the first programming languages invented by people. Think about it... It has instructions with loops and conditions.
Oh, and the martial arts training is just so you can better fend off the ***** jocks who harass you for being a geek. :) - ripcrd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19last year?
- ZetSabre, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Yeah, I came across this article a long time ago and thought the same thing. There are some good pointers, but if you disagree with something he says, feel free to throw it out.
My guide to being a hacker:
1) Learn to program.
2) Be yourself.
Don't force yourself to be something you're not because you think it's the only way to be a hacker. It's not. - burke, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16If you don't know what 1337 means, you are probably far smarter than anyone that types it in a non-sarcastic way.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Step one, learn to play Go
- arkitect, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Apparently I am a hacker and didn't even realize it.
Sweet. - bryxal, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14It should be illegal to submit an article with a number appended to it (look in adress bar) it means that they're were 10 dupes of this before.... come one.... And anyone who doesn't understand the basis of this article is too immature to be a real programmer (hacker)
- gamesector, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Most pointless changelog ever.
- theworldisround, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Uplink is the best.
- spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9@ProfChaosOmega :
ROFL
Woosh. Thats the sound of the comment going RIGHT over your head.... - burke, on 11/05/2007, -0/+8hacker:
1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. RFC1392, the Internet Users' Glossary, usefully amplifies this as: A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular.
2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming.
3. A person capable of appreciating hack value.
4. A person who is good at programming quickly.
5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in ‘a Unix hacker’. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.)
6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example.
7. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations.
8. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence password hacker, network hacker. The correct term for this sense is cracker. - jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8>> a HACKER breaks into stuff, or circumvents a system for benefit.
thats not at all what a hacker is... a hacker is, as explicitly defined, a person who enjoys contructing and deconstructing things to learn, with intimate detail, how everything works
>> the term HACKING relates to circumventing security or other protections.
>> you can hack a email server, hack a coke machine, hack a hot girl,
>> etc etc....
what you are talking about _is_ a cracker (apart from the girl analogy... ???)
>> COMPUTER PROGRAMMERS, or CODERS, have for some reason
>> decided that CODER isnt cool enough, and they want to be called
>> HACKERS, and thats fine by me, but it doesnt mean that the term
>> HACKER is somehow different.
wrong, it was the media the made hacking synonymous with usually illegal or unethical breaking into systems, because they simply couldn't make the distinction between some snotty teen breaking into some companies bbs server and getting the sysop's password or phreaking and a bunch of geeks figuring out ways to optimize the tcp/ip stack or getting a commodore 64 to render 3d or using xmode for efficient offscreen buffering or using a graphics cards programmable GPU to perform some computational tasks etc etc - synae, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7And a million psychedelic colors!
- dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Awesome, now all I need is a hacker handle, like zerocool or acidburn.
Oh yeah, and a laptop with a pci bus. - triple110, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7The author has read one too many William Gibson books and to live out The Matrix.
Hacking is not necessarily computer based. The idea of hacking is a concept in which you change or manipulate the design of something to perform a function that goes outside the objects original purpose. There is no law or rule stating that a hacker needs to know programming.
Cracking is not computer based ether. A cracker is someone who has figured out how to bypass a security or protection device or program. A cracker when used in reference to computer systems usually has some knowledge of how a program works in order to manipulate to do what you want. When someone knows how to "crack" a program...it simply means that they have successfully reverse engineered that software to bypass a security/protection part of the program. When they create a program to automatically change values automatically then they are a coder as well.
A coder is simply someone who know how to make a program or script that translates some level of functions or output to another program, hardware given a set of parameters or input.
Being a computer "Hacker" or "Cracker" usually means that you have some knowledge of "coding" but its certainly not a requirement. Even script kiddies can be considered hackers or crackers, but are not very good ones. - burke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Still, at least this one encourages the "RTFM" approach, as opposed to the "G3t sum 1337 0-day spl01tz!" one.
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Ah, I see the problem here.
You're thinking of the skript kiddie community (you're grammer gaved it awayz). - bieber, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I would respond to that, but it wouldn't matter. You'd never believe the truth if I told it to you...
- Shinta, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11This is way old. I remember reading this when I was in sixth grade when I was learning python.
- sharph, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5RISC is going to change everything....
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Martial arts tends to be very calculated and methodical. There's an incredible amount of overlap between hackers/coders and martial artists.
I agree with dgendrau as well. - Jonty, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7This is somewhat old and standard, but I've never seen it on the frontpage before and it's good to see it getting a new audience. More people need to realise the stuff on that page, especially the mainstream media, mainly the whole cracker thing.
Oh, and this isn't ethical hacking, it's hacking. You want ethical cracking, which is cracking in order to evaluate the security of a system and without malicious intent. - sirsteveh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Alternatively, you can call yourself "one who's interested in computers." When you put a one-word label on yourself, you automatically subject yourself to stereotypes and assumptions, which don't really go away completely even if you *do* explain what "hacker" is supposed to mean.
That's not to say that I've never called myself a hacker, or that I don't even now sometimes. I really don't mind being lumped in with common thieves, criminals, and spammers if the person who does the lumping is one that doesn't care to learn more about me anyway. ;) - tehpoutine, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Actually Herbert Schildt's books on C and C++ are quite inaccurate and filled with errors. Feel free to google the errors if you don't believe me.
http://www.plethora.net/~seebs/c/c_tcr.html There's a good one pointing some out. - kidko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3A very good guide, that's helpful. However, the one thing that he messed up on? Defining "hacker." The media presents the hacker as a teen who breaks into sites. Which is wrong. "Hackers built the Internet," as this article puts it. Hackers are the people behind Open Source and GNU. Crackers are the ones who break stuff. Hackers make, crackers break.
Unfortunatly, no digg. I've had this article printed out for at least three years in my desk somewhere. Old news. - nofrak1, on 11/05/2007, -3/+6All of you are missing this guy's point. First, he clearly states that his way is only his opinion and his advice. Second, he's promoting hacking as an art form, something you do for joy and beauty, and possibly (but not necessarily) money. Obviously he can't get across all the technical skills here, but he points you in the right direction, and then focuses on the philosophy, which can be just as important. The tubes could use a few more of this type of hacker and a great deal less 1337-|-|4x0|2-ing script kiddies
- aboutblank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think you missed "PROFIT!!!!"?
- m0laria, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5There's a pool on the roof.
- Karolina, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Old.
I'm surprised someone actually submitted this.
When searching "hacker" on google, it's ranked 1...for the past 4 years.. - burke, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5How to grammar?
Am I the only one who finds that hilariously ironic? - atezun, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Except for the fact the old school is filled with asbestos and needs to be torn down.
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I'd recommend "The C Programming language."
IMO, C is more hackerish than C++, but to each his own.
For C++, my suggestion is The C++ Primer (4th ed.) and Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language (to be read *after* the Primer. ;) ) - Shinta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13 years ago lol.
- FluffyArmada, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4My school has asbestos in it.. Yay education funding!
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2RISC is good....
- vardhaman2249, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1It should be "An" Ethical hacker because E is a vowel !!!
- InfamousX241, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hate articles like this. "Hackers" don't pick up a book called "How to hack" or read some article about how a hacker should behave. Hackers are the average programmer who is exploring the limits of their knowledge.
- asnow, on 12/05/2007, -0/+0I'm definately no hacker, but I'm pretty sure this guy is weak. First, wf what he is saying is it can't be taught, so why does he title the article 'how to become a hacker'? Second, I don't think anyone who starts 'the art' of hacking from reading this article will be hacking into ANYTHING.
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