Whats the best way to learn how to hack?
Like the Nike ad campaign said “just do it.” These days it has never been easier to learn how to hack and at the same time never more dangerous. The good news is, as time goes on computer hardware/software keeps on getting less expensive and the processing power keeps on going up. At the same time there are published books on the subject of hacking, lots of information on the web as well as organized hacker conventions like defcon or toorcon (ya never know what kind of interesting info you could pick up that might be useful at some future date). These are just a few reasons why it easier to learn how to hack now as compared to the past. Now for the bad news. Hacking networks for the simple pleasure of increasing ones knowledge is frowned upon by politicians and corporate types who don’t understand the technology enuf to secure sensitive info. And after 9/11 there is a pretty paranoid mindset with the powers that be, that the whole world is out to get them. If the world was an ideal pla
