Introduction
So you want to be a hacker?
I bet you were sitting on your couch watching the movie Hackers from the early 1980’s with all the cool computer graphics, teens skateboarding around the city running from the cops and trying to steal millions of dollars from corrupt billion dollar companies that just care about what is in it for them
instead of the little people.
Well, if this is your reason for wanting to become a hacker then I am sad to tell you the real world of a hacker isn’t like this. In fact, pretty much everything that you see in these movies is pure Hollywood and shouldn’t be
believed.
The world of a hacker is not really as glorious and exciting as it is portrayed on television and in movies. The world and life of a hacker is a long and hard one, sitting in front of a computer screen trying to figure out problems.There is another group of people however known as “Crackers”. These
crackers are the group of individuals who go and do all of the malicious breakings into systems and causing havoc. Since the term Hackers was the term that stuck everyone that performs the actions that we will go over in this book are considered to be a hacker.
In this book, I am going to go through many of the aspects of what it means to be a hacker. I am going to talk to you about many of the tools you need to learn, terms you need to be aware of such as white hat, gray hat and the infamous black hat mean. And finally, I am going to go over some of the good reasons you would want to become a hacker.
So, if you are really looking for the truth of what it means to be a hacker sit back and start going through this book step by step. At the end of it you will know if the hacking life is for you.
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