What _actually_ counts as hacking? Does guessing a password count

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Finding a codebase and hacking around at it to make it do cool stuff for fun in your spare time.
There you go, you're not a hacker.

>>58961178

so its just getting access to a codebase and writing/changing the current code or even adding code to make it do stuff they dont want? thats it?

i hack your sisters ass

>>58961139
What you're referring to as "hacking" is actually "cracking".

For hacking, read: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

For cracking, gtfo.

Ofc not. It's a stereotip
There are a lot of chineese and ukranian hackers

>>58961266

thanks m8

what are some things i can "practice" hacking?

>Does guessing a password count as hacking?
no, but it's still prosecutable

if it's passworded, and you're not authorized by whatever entity set the password (rather than the physical device wrongly authorizing you), you most likely going beyond your rights by trying to enter a password

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>>58961139
Linux administrator here. Social engineering is considered a legit form of hacking. Basically the lowest of lows. The top hackers are the ones who can code and run scripts via remote host machines.

>>58962455

so they remote into a server somewhere and run scripts to fuck with the data? how do they get the server login information?

>>58961139
No if you can do most of the courses on freecst.com then you pretty much are learning the basics.

>>58961139
Educate yourself you swine:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Hacker