How To Become A Hacker

What is a Hacker? A Hacker is a person who uses creative problem solving on puters to do shit you are not meant to do, they also listen to hardcore techno and fap a lot. Once more, they are good at it, any person who !, != hacker. Ok? Good now STFU and listen.

I believe that a hacker is smart.
I believe a hacker loves to learn and will never stop learning.
I believe that not all hackers are anti-social losers (I am llulul sorri).
I believe that hackers absolutely love to solve problems and complicated ones at that.
I believe I am not a hacker but it is one of my ideals.
I also believe this article will put a lot of new people off hacking when they realise what is involved and how long it will take. People like that, were not meant to be hackers.


If you have all these things then you were meant to be a hacker.

My name is Maxwell, aka Sirholkms, hacking has expanded my mind, it has allowed me to do things that normal people can't do and know things normal people will never know. It has decreased my ignorance, and I've met a lot of extremely smart people in the process. I hope this hacking philosophy of knowledge will do the same for you. Let me also make perfectly clear I don't claim to be an all knowing superior hacking deity, but the hacking philosophy is a part of my ideals. I will also make clear that I was once as ignorant and stupid as the new comers to hacking came, but I stuck with it and I now believe I am getting some were. I want to share this with you.

Good we have that out the way this messy article will focus on the ways that hackers solve problems.

1. Learn the basics of HTML.
2. Learn the basics of PHP.
3. Learn the basics of c++.
4. Learn the basics of networking.
5. Learn the basics of network programming in c++, more specifically programming with the winsock library which will open this world up. Also learn network programming in PHP, which include writing applications that send raw packets and other such things like custom crafted POSTs to other scripts.

Result:
You will be able to program your own back doors, your own worms, your own botnets. You can automate hacking. You will no longer be a script kiddie and you will be well on your way to being a real hacker. The level of root you will obtain from this will be amazing. Your brain and your creative problem solving abilities will increase and you will bypass the many years most people take to realise the importance of programming. You will be able to pull of any schemes you can possibly come up with based on your networking knowledge and problem solving abilities.

Computers are the canvas, programming languages are the paints. Programming is expressive. Without programming you will be forced to look at the picture that everyone else has to see instead of painting your own.

SOUND GOOD? kk keep reading.

Step 1 getting the programs:
HTML: HTML renders in web browsers, all you need to learn HTML is the program notepad and internet explorer (IE fucking sucks get Firefox). HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Languague and it is what web sites are made in. It is the frame work for the content of a web site. It's the base, you will build knowledge on some of the basics of the internet. The knowledge you develop from this will go hand in hand with PHP and any web based attack you can possibly think of.
Time to spend on HTML: Much less than a year if you write many websites.

PHP: PHP Hypertext Pre-processor is the most widely used and robust server side programming language on the internet. It gives web masters the ability to write dynamic web sites such as forums and other things but PHP can also be used to create things such as mail bombers, DDoSers and password cracking but this is what I consider advanced PHP programming. With the addition of the forking functions in PHP, PHP promises to give you a nice step into the hax0ring world. I mentioned it is sever side, this means it interacts with the server not from the clients end like javascript but on the sever side which is why it's so powerful. Every site with a .php extension in the URL uses the PHP programming language (unless they think there smart and just put HTML in it to confuse people. The HTML that you will learn will allow you to code the structur for basic web applications, phishing, xss, basically all the cool web based attacks. YOU must know HTML before you use PHP unless you want to use PHP from the command line and that defeats the purpose. The purpose is to build your mind set up and get you thinking networking.

The reason I mentioned PHP before C++ is because it is easier and you won't be ready for C++ yet.
Install for PHP: Get WAMP, WAMP stands for Windows Apache MySQL and PHP, ALL IN ONE FUCKING INSTALL. You bypass potentially hours of configuring PHP with Apache and SQL. This is great for web developers. The download link is

Code:

www.en.wampserver.com/download.php

Time to spend on PHP: 1 - 2 years of learning and programming with it to get good.

C++: Not to be confused with c# (pronounced C Sharp) which is a crappy Microsoft language. Why is it so crappy? It is because it requires the Net Framework to run any programs made in it (please don't quote me on that, but that's the impression I got). The c++ programming language is the real deal, you will be able to write programs that are (lets hope) completely standalone in that the .exe generated don't require PHP to be installed and they don't require the Net Frame Work to run. This is the key. You may be wondering why C wasn't mentioned, it is because you don't want to be fucking around with low level memory management on your first real programming language.
Install for a good c++ compiler (Dev-C++):

Code:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dev-cpp/devcpp-4.9.9.2_setup.exe

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Time to spend on c++: 2 years+ if you want any success at all.

Step 2 getting the knowledge:
HTML: Just some simple things to save you time and then I will get you a link to a tutorial.
To create a HTML file under Windows open notepad (run => notepad) then file => Save As.. => (Save as type = All Files) and name the file anything.html. MAKE SURE IT'S .html. Additionally you can change your folder options to show the extension of known files by going to Tools (in a folder) => Folder Options => View => Now deselect "Hide extensions for known file types" then you will be able to make a notepad file and rename the file with the extension .html. But let's get you the knowledge for HTML at

Code:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

. You write your HTML code into that file you just created and you open it in a web browser to render your code. It's that simple.

PHP: I recommend building a solid understanding of PHP from http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp and just have fun with PHP ok. It's a good language and you can do a lot with it. Then learn to look up the functions you need for a script in the PHP manual at www.php.net. The php manual is extremely well made and it will make picking up the language very easy.

C++: To get a basic understanding of c++ you can use

Code:

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/

which is like the w3c guides.

Learning Networking:

Code:

http://www.w3schools.com/tcpip/default.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP

Network Programming:
Here is the fun part. You should already have a basic idea of networking, PHP and c++.

Code:

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=php+network+programming&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

and for Dev-C++ I can make things real easy, I found this tutorial yesterday

Code:

code.box.sk/newsread.php?newsid=1020

It's a tutorial about the winsock library and that means writing any network app you can think of (botnet time!) llulululu hax.

Also, learn how to get free eBooks. I will get you started with a good site called www.rsfind.com. Just download books on PHP and C++ if ever you need it and for fucks sake learn to use google there is also

Code:

www.warez-bb.org

AND learn to use torrents. Torrents are really the black market of the interwebs and when you start using your brain you will know how to use all these things I have mentioned here to root peoples boxes that use torrents. We are talking about some serious shit here.

Additional Information:
You may want to learn SQL, this will allow you to SQL inject sites for sensitive information
SQL comes with WAMP server so don't worry. PHP lets you write web apps that can interacte with database systems (using SQL) you see how this is all coming together? here is the w3cschools tutorial on PHP and SQL use

Code:

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_intro.asp

and here is a google search

Code:

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=php+and+sql+programming&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

ALSO,learn javascript! This will give you access to XSS attacks. Javascript tutorial at

Code:

http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp

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Last step now..
Learn Assembly and C and then you have your buffer over flows, fence post errors w/e and "real" haxoring.

The advantages of learning all this:
1. With knowledge of PHP you WILL be able to hack web sites with Remote File Includes, Local Files Includes
(include ($_GET["file"]) and SQL injections. You will be able to write your own exploits when you can read other peoples code and think "how can I exploit this" then of course exploit it. PHP will also give you all kinds of abilities including phishing attacks, xss attacks, mail bombers, forum spammers, auto exploiters (xss worm code), cookie stealers you fucking name it. You can make genius attacks using PHP, believe me on that.
2. You bypass potentially years of mindless wandering trying to figure out how to haxx.
3. The information mentioned has the potential to make you rich. (Use your brain).
4. This will increase your creative problem solving abilities, it will make you better at maths and could land you a job in the network security industry.
5. There are to many to mention so fuck it.


Now this tutorial wasn't to long but the amount of time that it will take to learn all of this will far exceed 6 years. When you get there, it will be amazing.

Also

Code:

http://www.hackthissite.org/