hacking

^ hahah

and again, its so easy to get caught its not worth it. Even what you may consider harmless probing may get the feds on your ass. There was that one british dude who was just "poking around" and that poking around turned in to him stumbling over Government documents about the existance of aliens.

Hes locked away for a very long time. Its just not worth it to get involved. Take it from me. It really does make you sweat from nervousness.

 

Linux actually does not vary that much from distro to distro as far as security and vulnerabilities are concerned. I am a fairly competent (read: well above n00b, but far from guru) linux user and I can assure you that if you really want to be a hacker linux is the ONLY way to go. Between ssh, iptables, nessus, and all the other excellent tools available gratis with documentation it is a hacker's wet dream. In fact several distros are based off of security tools which amount to hacking tools. One such distro is nubuntu which is based off ubuntu.

I do however suggest that you take the time to learn the basic *nix commands b/c if you decide to hack you will spend mucho time in the shell. I suggest ubuntu as your starting distro mainly b/c of it's excellent hardware detection and helpful community. Ubuntu is about as user friendly as a distro can get without dumbing it down to a windows like level.

If your really serious I suggest you find an old computer somewhere, if you don't have one a neighbor definitely does and usually will be more than happy for you to take their "junk", and install a CLI(command-line interface) system on it. This gives you a system which is more than capable of hacking and helps you learn linux.

Here's a little tip:
If the computer is a p3-p4 with 384+mb of ram you can install regular ubuntu with the works and then open a shell. This is nice because it allows you to use an intuitive and eay GUI and still access the CLI.

If the computer is any lower I suggest you do a CLI install (done from the ubuntu alternate cd) and then install X and fluxbox.




This may sound like alot of techno babble but linux is one of the few things that I'm passionate about in life(yea I'm a nerd). I also can guarantee that I'll support, to the best of my abilities, anyone on this forum who decides to install linux; but it would be alot easier on both me and you if you used ubuntu as that is my primary distro.

 

I would suggest the exact opposite of Ubuntu. If you want to learn the technical aspects of the operating system, even if you dont want to, do a stage 1 install of Gentoo. I learnt more by doing a stage 1 in gentoo then I did in 2 years of trying 30+ distros. And I have tried 30+ distros. It used to be 6 times a month id reformat and try something new.

These are my preferences but I find the gui to just be slow and toilsome, gets in the way sometimes (For NMAP I love it though). You're right with nessus, that program is pure sex. And not all distros are the same security wise, not by a long shot. For the longest time Slackware refused to use the 2.6 Kernel due to vulnerabilities (Slackware recently FINALLY switched over). Look at SELinux. That thing is a fuckin rock.

Im with joe, if you need help installation wise or anything like that, this forum seems to have some bright folks in regards to linux.

If its asking for help breaking into your friends computer GFY.

 

ubuntu sounds like a somalian tribe lol

 

Swazo, I agree on the gentoo issue, but he needs a base first. Very few people are that dedicated at first and he sounds like someone who has never used a shell in his life. Gentoo is good once you have a base, but no less than cruel to a first time shell user. Personally I have never had a 100% working gentoo system, but then again I've only tried once and it was on a pos no name laptop. In fact I think I may try it on a dimension 4300s I have lying around. Damn you lol, I'm going to be configuring this shit for the next 2 weeks.

 

well first off it isn't hacking, its cracking and yes you can do all of them if they have an ip address. read "the art of deception" it will help

 

The art of deception by Kevin Mitnick. how will social engineering help him here when he wants to perform basic hacks.

And, if you program something, its hacking. The be it defition of it back when people like Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton, Bill Gates were in school was the modification of software and code and pranks.

If they have an ip address? wtf? what are you drinking paint or something? That was horrible advice.

 

dude, i just saw live free or die hard and you should DEF become a hacker,that shit would be sweet as hell

 

lol, have you see live free or die?

thats also a new movie. haha.

 

I think hacking is great. It slips chaos into the system, becoming an unpredictable variable blocking the ruling class and their order.
discordians, stick apart.
however, hacking is too hard and risky for me personally to want to do.