Me hacker - you script kiddy !

By 'Herr Meier'

Guide and instructions for aspiring hackers.

This volume is intended as a guide for budding hackers. Suggestions, tips and tricks can be found here as well as some 'readymade' instructions. Wherever possible, the author has deliberately dispensed with a lot of text and instead referred to existing pages on the Internet in order to keep the volume short and affordable for everyone. The book is illustrated.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bernd Michael Grosch
• Release date: May 12, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224614998

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Me hacker - you script kiddy !

Hacking and cracking

'Herr Meier'

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Texts:   © 'Herr Meier'

Cover:   © 'Herr Meier'

Publisher:   bmg new media

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83395 Freilassing

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From the German

Introduction

What is a hacker?

First of all, a hacker is a good programmer who sees one of his tasks as building, developing and improving things. A hacker never sees a development as having reached its end, but is constantly improving things and making them easier for others to use. Hackers developed the operating system 'UNIX', from which today's operating systems emerged. Hackers developed the Internet as we know it and laid the foundations for all our modern communication options today.

Hackers believe in voluntary action and mutual help in solving problems.

Hackers know (not only) the C programming language, work with Linux or BSD and laugh at the thought of being dependent on a ridiculous Windows.  Why?  Quite simply, if I want to cook soup in a pot, I buy or make myself a pot and not a sieve in which I first have to solder the holes in order to be able to cook soup.

Logical? There you go!  If I want a usable operating system, I don't tinker with an unusable one first in order to (eventually) get a reasonably usable system that I always know will be highly insecure.

A hacker is not interested in free software for the sake of it, but primarily in open software that exposes the code and is therefore also free, as it can be viewed anyway.

A hacker looks for bugs in software to make it more secure; not like a cracker to rip off others with his knowledge.

Which brings us to another term that should often be used instead of hacker to describe the negative side of hacking.

The term 'hacker' should be used neutrally in the sense of good or bad, as a cracker is first and foremost a hacker (in the sense of a programmer). In Anglo-Saxon, the terms 'white hat' and 'black hat' have become established to emphasise these two worlds. The 'grey hat' here would be the term for a neutral hacker or a hacker whose intentions cannot (yet)