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Re: What's a good IRC Channel to go to for hacking advise?
From: Tonnerre Lombard <tonnerre.lombard () sygroup ch>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 08:43:49 +0200
Salut, Chip, On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:58:14 +1000, Chip Panarchy wrote:
I am hoping to one day become a white-hat hacker. And I want to learn as much about hacking as possible.
So far I am 10 months through a 24 month networking course (where at the end of it I will probably sit for my CCNA and MCSE). I thought that that would be as good a place as any to start.
CCNA teaches networking basics as part of the course, which is certainly not bad. I am however very unsure how a MCSE is going to help you.
And I have been reading programming books (borrowed about 5 programming text-books, around half for Java and the other 'half' for C++). So hopefully by the end of the next 14 months (hopefully much sooner) I will be an apt programmer and 'networker'.
I am also not sure if a large quantity of books over the same matter is adequate for your purpose. Also, how did you manage to borrow "about 5 books"? Is it 5.21 books? And is one of them about both Java and C++? Whatever. I'd rather suggest you educate yourself on the existing languages first, like you suggested, and then go for information on web sites like http://www.cccure.org/ and look for training courses there. Then you should start to find vulnerabilities in the books you first read about your programming languages — you will most likely find that there are lots of them. Maybe you can also get an abonnement of http://www.hakin9.org/ — they have interesting articles at times and certainly contain a lot of stuff which may be new to you.
Though in the meantime, I am interested in finding an IRC channel where I can 'chat' to white-hat (and black-hat?) hackers, and learn as much of them as I can!
I'm sure you're going to drown in suggestions, most of which will not be really useful. Tonnerre -- SyGroup GmbH Tonnerre Lombard Solutions Systematiques Tel:+41 61 333 80 33 Güterstrasse 86 Fax:+41 61 383 14 67 4053 Basel Web:www.sygroup.ch tonnerre.lombard () sygroup ch
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- What's a good IRC Channel to go to for hacking advise? Chip Panarchy (Oct 02)
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- Re: What's a good IRC Channel to go to for hacking advise? James Eaton-Lee (Oct 05)