ESR's paper on how to become a Hacker. ... This, of course, is the fundamental hacking skill. If you don't know any computer languages, I recommend starting with Python. It is cleanly designed, well documented, and relatively kind to beginners. Despite being a good first language, it is not just a toy;
www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
105 Dana: Thank you for pointing out the important distinction between a curious, creative "hacker" and a malicious fraudster "cracker". As a computer professional, I have to listen to ignorant people talk about "...
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-computer-hacking.htm
Computer hacking always involves some degree of infringement on the privacy of others or damage to computer-based property such as files, web pages or software. The impact of computer hacking varies from simply being simply invasive and annoying to illegal.
www.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/crime/hacking.htm www.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/crime/hacking.htm
Huge on-line catalog dedicated to the serious phone phreaker, casino cheater, fruit machine beater, dss and cable tv user, gambling hacker, magnetic stripe hacker, and electronics enthusiast. ... CARD COUNTING COMPUTER DEVICE : Since the opening of the 21 Movie with the MIT Blackjack Team and based on a book by Ben Mezrich,
www.hackershomepage.com/ www.hackershomepage.com/
[A slightly different version of this paper was written for the ``Panel on Hacking'' held by the Association for Computing Machinery in April, 1985. Thanks to Batya Friedman, Donn Parker, ... Compare a bunch of adolescents breaking into a computer system with another bunch of kids hot-wiring a car for a joyride.
www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hackers.html www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hackers.html
Hacker (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In computing, a hacker is a person in one of several distinct (but not completely disjoint) communities and subcultures: • People committed to circumvention of computer security. This primarily conc...
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A full service criminal computer hacking organization ... Digicrime was once blocked by the state of Utah. Go figure... DigiCrime has also been blocked by the utterly clueless McAfee VirusScanX 4.0. Fat lot of good it does against this...
www.digicrime.com/
I hope you'll use it to contribute to computer science and hacking (in its good sense), not to become a cracker or vandal. ... Be insatiably curious and read voraciously. There are groups you can learn from. There are whole Web sites devoted to hacking TiVo units, for example.
www.robson.org/gary/writing/becomeahacker.html www.robson.org/gary/writing/becomeahacker.html
It took three hacking programs less than a second -- 200 milliseconds to be exact -- to find the password to the school's computer, Reid said. It was the school secretary's name: Silvia.
www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/12/17/student.hack/index... www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/12/17/student.hack/index.html