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Looking for advice on how to learn the guts and bowels of a system or network,
get inside it, and become a real expert? Maybe I can help there. How you use this
knowledge is up to you. I hope you'll use it to contribute to computer science and
hacking (in its good sense), not to become a cracker or vandal.
This little essay is basically the answers to all the e-mails I get asking how to
become a hacker. It's not a tutorial in and of itself. It's certainly not a guaranteed
success. Just give it a try and see what happens. If this ends up being of any use to
you, let me know. That said, here's where to start:
Be curious
Take things apart. Look under the hood. Dig through your system directories and
see what's in there. View the files with hex editors. Look inside your computer.
Wander around computer stores and look at what's there.
Read everything in sight
If you can afford it, buy lots of books. If you can't, spend time in libraries and
online. Borrow books from friends. Go through tutorials. Read the help files on your
system. If you're using Unix/Linux, read the main files. Check out the local college
bookstores and libraries. And as you're reading, try things (see next paragraph).
Ex pe ri m e nt
Don't be afraid to change things, just to see what'll happen. Do this long enough,
of course, and you'll wipe out your system (see next paragraph), but that's part of
becoming a hacker. Try command options and switches you've never tried before.
Look for option menus on programs and see what they can do. In Windows, tweak
your registry and see what happens. Change settings in .INI files. In Unix, dig around
in the directories where you don't normally go. On the Macintosh, play around in the
system folder.
Make backups
If you start mucking around with system files, registries, password files, and
such, you will eventually destroy your system. Have a backup ready. If you can
afford it, have a system you use just for experimenting, ready to reload on a moment's
notice, and do the serious work on a different computer.
Don't limit yourself
Who says a computer or network is the only place to hack? Take apart your
telephone. Figure out your television (careful of the high voltage around the picture
tube – if you fry yourself, it's not my fault) and VCR. Figure out how closed
captioning works (that was a plug for my FAQ). Take apart your printer. Pick up the
latest issues of Nuts & Volts and Midnight Engineer. Take apart the locks on your
doors. Figure out how your radio works. Be insatiably curious and read voraciously.

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