How to be a hacker

I thought this was going to be about bash, vi, SICP, cryptanalysis, emacs, asm, or maybe something about 3d printers, or fpgas, or soldering fine point smd ICs onto home stenciled PCBs.<p>This isn&#x27;t about being a hacker at all. It&#x27;s about doing some entry level penetration testing with a software suite designed for that purpose.

&quot;How to be a script kiddie&quot; is more apt of a title.<p>This is embarrassing to actual infosec specialists and penetration testers.

You&#x27;re not a hacker until a hacker calls you a hacker. (<a href="http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#hacker_already" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catb.org&#x2F;esr&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;hacker-howto.html#hacker_alread...</a>)

&#x27;Eye of the beholder, as always. To my grandmom, I&#x27;m an elite weapons-grade hacker because I hit Ctrl-B to bold something in MSWord rather than clicking the button for it.

Step 1: go on IRC<p>Step 2: change nick by adding 0x in front of your regular nym<p>Congrats you&#x27;re a hacker

Oh my God! The secret is out. We&#x27;re no longer safe!

It&#x27;s trivially easy to be a hacker, but luckily it&#x27;s also trivially easy to defeat would-be hackers by keeping your computer up-to-date...<p>Right.

Yes, using nmap, metasploit and meterpreter totally makes you a hacker.

People, take note... This article was written for Guardian readers, not the elite HN hacking corps.

Unfortunately, a poorly thought through article. This article seems to only promote FUD regarding information security. I hope the overall goal of creating robust systems is not lost by calling out certain tools. Security through obscurity is not security.

Serious question: how insecure is Mac OS X to this kind of stuff?

I&#x27;m going to put up 7 firewalls and buy a dog.

Real hackers know Git. If you don&#x27;t know Git, you don&#x27;t know Shit. Am I right fellow hackers???