How Do I Become a Grey Hat Hacker?

You could start by purchasing a gray hat. :^)

>>55693830
And an axe.

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>>55693822

This isn't proving very helpful. Can somebody offer some useful advice for once?

>>55693846
I suggest suicide.

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>>55693846
>Can somebody from 4chan offer some useful advice about hacking?

wtf?!?!?!?! unrealistic on this site i thought this wasa technology subreddit?!!??!!?!???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

>>55693846
I hear bleach is pretty tasty. Down a gallon of that

>>55693871
My mom died 4 years before I was born, and my dad died 3 years before that. Growing up without parents, I drifted from abusive foster home to foster home until I turned 17, where I joined the army. My patrol was attacked and a huge explosion cost me my sight and hearing, as well as the use of my limbs. That was ok, but the years I had spent with foster parents who smoked came back to haunt me in the form of lung cancer, and I need chemotherapy.

I survived multiple ovarian cancers in my testicles, but the chemotherapy took away my sense of smell and taste. I was an orphan, and blind, and deaf, and a quadriplegic. I have had no $$$ to buy carpets, or food. All I had growing up was my fake legs to replace the legs I lost in the war, and hearing aid for my deafness.

As an atheist living in Saudi Arabia and Iran, I live in constant fear that I will be found out and persecuted by the authorities. Due to a legal technicality, I do not receive any benefits from the government, and I have run out of savings. I do not own any property, so I now live on the streets with my adorably cute cats (banana for scale), my life being pretty much dictated by the kindness of strangers.

If you just sent me a $1.00 each, my life would significantly improve, as I would be able to afford chemotherapy and a place to stay. If not, then I am proud to have served my country (I fought in Vietnam, Korea, Kuwait, and Afghanistan for the freedom of this great nation).

Thank you all so much for your support and encouragement. AMA.

>>55693822
Install Gentoo.

There are entire books on penetration testing. Stop being retarded and read

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>>55693822
wrong hat.

KALI ISN'T WORKING D:

If you need to ask then you're not doing it right. You start by learning. Not by asking other people how they learned. I hate these bottom of the barrel threads. Are you incapable of thinking for yourself?

Step 1. Get a Grey fedora
Step 2. Get a thinkpad
Step 3. Grow a neckbeard
Step 4. Become a neet

>>55693846
I don't like your tone.
>>55693838
God damn.

Install Kali Linux and learn to use it.

>>55693838
Who is this semen girl?

How do i become a rainbow hat hacker?

>>55696267
5 dicks, two holes.

Become a black hat hacker. Then don't be a douche.

>>55693838
The look on that guy's face. Lol.

>What do you do after installing a version of linux?

Uninstall it. Install Gentoo instead

>>55693822
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>55693822

>buy a grey hat
>wears it
>act autisitc

there you go

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>>55693838

>>55699415


No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.

Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.

One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?

(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.

>>55699415
>>55699693

Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it.

You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument.

Last, I'd like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Linux compiler'? Or at least, 'Linux GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD?

>>55699415
>>55699693
>>55699706

If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this:

Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux' huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don't be a nag.

Thanks for listening.