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[ Author's E-mail - rat@soldierx.com ]
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NEOPHYTE'S GUIDE TO LEARNING
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by: RaT
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INTRODUCTION:
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After receiving about 50 e-mails a day all asking the same question - "Teach
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me how to hack" I decided that there was a need for some kind of road map for
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'Neophytes' or 'Newbies' to learn. That's where the idea for this txt came
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from. After searching the net and remembering how I learned - I got some ideas.
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This is my compilation of these ideas. I hope that all of you can use this
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guide to learn. The purpose of this guide isn't to teach you how to 'hack',
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it is to teach you how to learn for yourself and where to get started. I think
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that most neophytes nowadays seem to want to be taught everything. All of
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the neophytes out there need to know that all of us guys (and gals) with
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experience DO have lives and stuff to do! We're not teachers and most of us
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don't have time to mentor even one person - let alone the hundreds that ask
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for it! I learn new stuff everyday. I don't ask people - I use my ways of
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learning (which is what this guide is about) to learn! As I write this txt
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I'm learning how to edit my kernel so that my touchpad will work in linux on
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my laptop. I learned this by searching through archives and news posts. I
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eventually found the way that the pc_keyb.c handles mouse movement and what
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I need to edit. I'm doing that now :-)
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I didn't annoy anybody or e-mail anybody to learn that. I simply navigated
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through the millions of web-pages and found what I needed. Hopefully all of
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you can do the same thing after reading this txt.
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Happy hacking
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-RaT
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LESSON 1 - FINDING & READING
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The first step is to READ! Read everything you can find. The key to finding
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is NOT asking people! Simply decide what you want to learn and search for
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it. I just go to GOOGLE (http://www.google.com) and search for what I want
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to learn about. Tons of documents will pop show up. Amazing isn't it? LOL.
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Instead of wasting all of that time saying "Where Can I Learn?" - Just search
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yourself! Most of us have learned in our own weird ways and don't know what
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site to point you to other than our own. You need to read up on anything
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that you want to learn. I don't see a faster way. Message boards are also
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a good source of learning. A good message board with experienced users will
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often yield fast and good results. I usually stick to searching though. I
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like to do most of my learning solo.
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LESSON 2 - HANDS ON EXPERIENCE
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After you learn something you should test it. See if you learned from your
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reading by doing whatever you just learned about. If it has to do with
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hacking, you should generally do it on a wargames server where it's legal.
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Don't know where any wargames are? - http://www.pulltheplug.com
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That's my favorite wargames server. They have tons of computers and it's
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legal to hack them. Just don't do a rm -rf if you do get root. If you don't
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know what that means, rm is the command to remove a file in unix. -r tells
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it to remove the contents of directories and -f tells it to do it with
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force (meaning it doesn't ask you yes or no). After I read something, I
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always like to test it out. This lets me know that I've learned it and can
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successfully do whatever I just read about. It always gives me a good feeling
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of accomplishment to know that I just learned something myself.
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LESSON 3 - IF YOU MUST ASK...
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If you must ask somebody, PLEASE (I cannot stress this enough) do it
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intelligently! I would advise reading up on something, and only asking
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somebody as a last resort. Don't be surprised if you get flamed - many of
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us get annoyed by the questions. Use correct grammar and avoid using numbers
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in place of letters (ie. d00d 1m 50 31337). I get so many letters have don't
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have punctuation or grammar. They look like they were written by an 8 year
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old. I generally just delete these without replying because I can't even make
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out what half of them are saying. It gives the reader a feeling that you're
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EXTREMELY unintelligent. Asking people on message boards and IRC can yield
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good results sometimes. I usually stay away from IRC (other than our own room)
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just because I've never liked all of the irc lamers that harrass me. Our
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message board was made for asking questions, so feel free to post there
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(http://www.soldierx.com/wwwboard). Like I said earlier, I would avoid
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asking people at all costs. It's not right to waste people's time on something
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that you could have found by searching.
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HINTS FROM RaT ON LEARNING HACKING
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If you're serious about actually learning about hacking and security I would
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advise that you learn the items that I am about to list. Learning this stuff
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takes alot of time and effort. Hacking isn't downloading a script or a program
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and kicking somebody offline or getting into their system. That's just lame
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behavior that is frowned upon by the hacker community. Hacking is a quest
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for knowledge... I think it's a never-ending quest.
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Here are the things you should begin to study:
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-A Programming Langauge (Preferrably C, Perl, and C++)
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-Unix (Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc.)
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-TCP/IP
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-Networking
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While that might not look like much from here, it is! Generally I would advise
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you to install a Unix type OS (Like Linux) on your PC and learning C. While
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Learning C you can read up on TCP/IP and Networking. If you have the resources,
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setting up a LAN and testing security between machines is always good for learning.
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Hope this helps somebody! Look for my next txt file on Ethics!
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-RaT
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PRESIDENT OF SOLDIERX.COM
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