_____________________________________________________________ GUIDE TO LEARNING HOW TO HACK Part 3 - Ver. 1 Knowledge put to good use! ________________________________________________________________ Carolyn MyAnal, Gay Pee, every Newbie and the Media have finally driven me to write this guide due to their entire misunderstanding of what it means to hack. It is hoped that these people read this guide and comprehend what the scene is really about. This guide is in three parts, part 1 covering the mind frame of the hacker, part 2 covering the approach to how to learning how to hack and part 3 covering how you should best use the knowledge that you gain. This is the third part, and covers what most consider the most important thing in hacking, how to use your knowledge. *********************** Newbie note: Though this guide will not teach you how to hack, you should read it and use it to learn how to hack, as the name suggests. *********************** Definitions: ^^^^^^^^^^^^ \|/ What are Ethics? \|/ - Though all hackers claim to have Ethics, only White Hat ethics are worth mentioning as they have been in part 1. Ethics control all things in life, but in Hacking Ethics tends to be one of the most important aspects. \|/ What is considerate hacking? \|/ - Few hackers appear to be able to control themselves when they find they have root on a webserver and tend to change the index.html. Though this is strongly advised against, if you do change an index.html make sure to follow these guidelines: A) Make sure your pre-composed index.html is legible, leet talk helps no-one. B) Make sure you rename the old index.html to indexold.html C) Link up the old webpage and inform the sysop where to find it. *********************** Newbie note: This will not keep you out of jail, it will not give you any legal standing, it is basically an appology for beating up on the sysops site and helping him recover quickly, he may even decide not to investigate further, but it is still safest not to change anything on the site. *********************** ________________________________________________________________ Discussion: ^^^^^^^^^^^ Now that you are well on your way to learning how to hack, it is time to consider what you will do with your new knowledge. You have a number of options open to you now, such as who to tell that you are a hacker, what to hack and how to hack. Though these choices seem obvious to most people, I will go through these to give you an idea of which situations you may land in. ________________________________________________________________ How to hack: ^^^^^^^^^^^^ No, this is not going to teach you how to hack, rather it will discuss how you will hack. Of the many ways there are two main ways, White Hat or Black Hat. The best way to not get caught is to stay White Hat. The majority of Black Hat Hackers get bust sooner or later, and getting treated for computer addiction is no fun for anyone. Another thing to consider is your reasoning for hacking, once again, the best is to see how the state of computer security is and to show people how flawed their servers are. You could also hack for a objective such as shutting down paedophillia sites, but the host will often complain and the law will be less on your side than the sicko sysop. Whatever you use as your motivation for hacking, remember that only your actions will decide whether you land up in jail or not. ________________________________________________________________ What to hack: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ A general rule of thumb is "hack what you can", but watch what you hack as certain people are inadvisable to mess with. These include the massively popular proving grounds, such as the DoD and NASA, though their security administrators are all experiments involving trained chimpanzees, these agencise have a heck of alot of time on their hands, seeing they never do anything useful, to spend time tracking hackers. ________________________________________________________________ Who to tell you are a hacker: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It is suggested that you "Trust No-One" but it is supposed that if your buddies at the local 2600 meeting know you are a hacker or the folks in #hack on your irc server, well... it considered normal I guess. Telling anybody details of what systems you are in is a strict bad idea. Even your girlfriend or mom may get pissed off at you some day and bust you (alot of hackers have been ratted by their lovers). Talking to any media organisation takes careful consideration, as not only are you talking to a known rumour monger and twister of words, but you are also representing yourself as the entire hacker nation. Best leave media gala's to media whore, we can always disown them and they never feel bad about misrepresenting us. ________________________________________________________________ Finito: ^^^^^^^ That concludes part 3 of the GUIDE TO LEARNING HOW TO HACK: Knowledge put to good use! Remember hacking is as much thinking like a hacker and learning as it is hacking. Thus ends this edition of GUIDE TO LEARNING HOW TO HACK. Future revisions are foreseeable, so keep your senses prevalent. ________________________________________________________________ ***** 1999 Electronic Pneuma ***** You may forward the GUIDE TO LEARNING HOW TO HACK as long as you leave this notice at the end, don't change my spelling or grammar errors and remember to drink at least four ice cold beers while uploading . ________________________________________________________________