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Why hacker?

Why many people ask “how to hack?” or “Where I can learn hacking” Why? Isn’t it bad to hack?

5th Apr 2019, 8:34 PM
JTLZ
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Probably the same edgy people who want to hack using html. Hacking isn't bad necessarily, there are good and bad people out there. Without the good hackers the bad ones would have free reign. The good are there to do things like fix the vulnerabilities out there and update your anti virus scanners to make the internet just a little bit safer overall.
5th Apr 2019, 8:44 PM
Dennis
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hi, I was MIT-DMS' first network Hacker in 1971. back then that was considered a wonderful thing. I wrote a computer graphics system they use for 10 years that replace their Evans & Sutherland LDS-1, an incredible piece of vector drawing hardware at that time. MIGS my graphics system was written in MDL, DMS's new dialect of LISP. Because of this, I spent several summers working on MIGS with MIT back there in person. I was at USC information sciences institute at the time. Back then we use the ARPANET, the department of defence's network. Which did not become the Internet until 1983.
5th Apr 2019, 11:22 PM
Rick Shiffman
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Some guy lastly asked me to hack his exgirlfriend facebook profile. I tell him its wrong and I will report him And he tell me that "everyone does it"
6th Apr 2019, 8:01 PM
Sławek J.
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No hacking is not bad the wthical haker is dping many good things an crime...
8th Apr 2019, 5:58 PM
Ponn Ganapathy
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⚜️JTLZ⚜️[#Never Give Up!] I've been asked similar questions several times. Here's what I usually tell them. //You can't just start hacking when you don't have basic knowledge of programming or rather you are not good in programming at all (for advance hacking)... Questions I ask..... //We have types of hackers; -White heart hacker -Grey heart hacker -Black heart hacker Which do you want to be? //Why do you want to learn hacking? This type of questions make them fill uncomfortable. In conclusion: You can't teach someone to hack. It's either a gift or your good at it..
5th Apr 2019, 9:45 PM
Jella
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I think that kids ask such questions. There are dozens of films about hackers. The topic also frequently appears in the news. "How to make games" is a similar question. Something you do not ask (at least not so imprecise) if you are a bit familiar with programming.
5th Apr 2019, 10:00 PM
Denise Roßberg
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Rick Shiffman you're a legend!!
6th Apr 2019, 1:32 PM
Sonic
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Nope!! Having weapon isn't bad thing ,it's matter how you use it that's make it bad or good
6th Apr 2019, 1:54 PM
ishwar
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The kind of people who think knowledge is given not earned
6th Apr 2019, 7:59 AM
Dan Rhamba
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hacking is just a skill you have, what ever you do with it is up to you, with great power comes great responsibilities...
6th Apr 2019, 10:23 AM
James Brown
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It is not entirely bad. By hacking you can expose vulnerabilities in a code which you can then devise a patch.
6th Apr 2019, 1:37 PM
👑 Prometheus 🇸🇬
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Tom Please do not post your personnal information here.
8th Apr 2019, 10:14 PM
JTLZ
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Koder King🐱 & Dennis Thanks guys!
5th Apr 2019, 9:46 PM
JTLZ
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There is 2 different frequently ask questions mention in ur questions. 1st one is how to hack?. This question is ask by the one who use hacking for some bad reason. These hackers are termed as black hat hacker. 2nd one is where I learn hacking. Intentionally this question are asked for learning about hacking, remember hacking is a not used for only bad purposes you can learn hacking for security purposes, finding vulnerability of the software and website, it has a huge demand in industry and this is termed as white hat hacker or ethical hackers.
6th Apr 2019, 3:23 PM
Saquib Imam
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Well there are to types of hacking White hat hacking And black hat hacking White hat is where you use your hacking skill for good. To help point out design flaws that cant be found by a regular user Black hat hacking is where you do things that can get you in trouble. Hacking into account. Stealing money etc.
6th Apr 2019, 8:12 PM
NateyBoi
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In my head, the 'hacker' parameter has the default value 'Black Hat'. So basically, whenever I read somewhere in q&a 'How can I become a hacker?' I instead see: 'How can I break into other people's systems (and be it the fb account of their ex) to do damage?'
7th Apr 2019, 2:15 PM
HonFu
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You should not be confused... There are bad hackers in the world to steal money from your bank.... be careful !!!!
6th Apr 2019, 8:06 AM
Raja Ji
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Sławek J. You did the right thing 👍 in that instance. The excuse "everyone does it", in NO way makes something that is wrong to be right. It just means that "everyone" that is, is doing something wrong. That excuse "everyone does it", will certainly not hold up in court.
6th Apr 2019, 9:56 PM
Decimis † 𝕯𝖊𝖈𝖎𝖒𝖎𝖘
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'Hacking’ is something I unfortunately am somewhat good at, injecting dlls and rewriting memory can be very dangerous to the companies, as sometimes memory from the server gets leaked on your client, then inject a dll to it, and boom, full access. But hacking is typically something that kids want to do without learning basic programming.
6th Apr 2019, 9:23 PM
Deud1eSkrub
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Ethical or white hat hacking is legal but unethical or Black hat hacking is illegal
7th Apr 2019, 11:52 AM
Vinyas Amin
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