Hello all, I know theres alot of clever people on here and people that definately know alot more than me, basically im a 15 year old in high school. My main interest is PCs. I have built a pc which i found easy to be honest, i got talking to my technician today and he's insanely inteligent (well i think so) and he got talking about Linux and things like backtrack and pandora i think. He networks the whole school single handidly in his little room. I was talking about hacking, i will be a white hat! like him. I just want to learn the ropes. I don't think people will / can tell me things here i was just wondering about all the numerous operating system. Thanks alot , Mark.
Before you can start hacking you should dig deep in security and networking protocols... That, and Netcat
Start looking around online about protocols and the way different internet services work. I consider my self a white hat and I have also found that the only way to learn is through research and also getting out and trying your skills. (just make sure to cover your ass in case something happens and if you do find an exploit, tell your technician right as you find it. I did and it saved me from being suspended in high school)
I would say try installing one of the linux distributions and playing with it, because it lets you do much more than windows. Then you can start learning about how computer software works, in a few years take up a computer science degree and continue developing things that interest you, and I think that's how pretty much all hackers learn - they just follow what they find interesting.
Ill look up protocols. I've heard theres alot of linux's about - is there a big difference between them.
For someone new who wants to learn the nitty gritty aspects then Arch Linux is the best balanced between ease of picking up and hackability.
I'd say Debian again is quite hackable and fairly easy to install or if your in the mood to do plenty of reading any way, Gentoo is ultra hackable and shouldn't be to difficult to install if your careful.
ubuntu (Kubuntu, Xubuntu), Mint, Debian, Backtrack 3 (or the Beta 4), Gentoo, Arch Those are all good, solid ones, and easy to use. Backtrack has a lot of tools for hacking that are embedded in the disk (network sniffers, packet inspectors, etc; really good for newbies who want to learn)...
Personally I would have suggested Ubuntu as the basic concepts of linux are different to Windows and even on Ubuntu take some getting used to especially if you are very used to Windows like me. Using Windows a lot kind of trains you to -not- understand anything that is not Windows lol. For fun, trying to set up something like a simple file server or web server could help with getting used to working with it and such. Play with .conf files and start to understand how that works. It's taken me about 4 years of stop-start-stop-start use of Ubuntu just to get used to it, and finally only now I have it working quite nicely (still need to fix the wireless my friends who are pretty good with linux just said 'why use wireless?' lol) There's probably a 'linux for idiots' book too that might be helpful.
yup. sure is a book for idiots. Linux For Dummies (google it, it does exist, im too lazy to link....) and yeah, why wireless? .conf for servers = PITFA!!
you sir, are now dubbed, insane! just kidding, its ok, gets the job done ps- you should pm me regarding my ubuntu fourm, i need the help from a guru
I'm hardly a Guru, I call myself a slightly above average user It's not my fault Linux is so easy Feel free to PM me
