Hacking Training

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Hacking Training hackasoftware.com
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Agenda

• What is a hacker
• What motivates a hacker
• The hacking training community
• Who belongs?
• The rules of the game (aka Hacker Ethic)
• Conclusions

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What is a hacker?

• Many ways to describe hackers
• 1. Creates and modifies.
• -computer software and computer hardware
• 2. Exploits systems and gains unauthorized
  access. -through clever tactics and detailed
  knowledge.
• 3. Computer enthusiast/person who enjoys learning
  programming languages.
• 4. Someone who breaks into computers.
• 5. Can make a computer do what they want
• 6. Anyone who breaks open code and manipulates
  it in a clever or original
• -Not necessarily illegal.

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Types of Hackers- white hat

• White Hat- hired by large corporations, or
  governments
• Usually as a Tiger Team
• Tiger Team is a team that is hired to test the
  security of networks/find flaws or loopholes
• Will snoop around networks, trying to find
  loopholes
• If such loophole(s) is/are found report created
  explaining how hack was achieved

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Types of Hackers- grey hat

• Grey Hat
• Unhired
• People who break into networks for fun
• Usually dont intentionally cause harm (following
  hacker ethic)
• Enjoy doing this
• Perceived as challenge
• Want kudos from hacker peers
• Want to test security to prevent such attacks in
  future

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Types of Hackers- black hat

• Black hat/crackers
• Stereotypical hacker you hear about in the media
• Break into systems and damage them
• May write things like you just got served by X
  group
• May delete files, erase portions of code, etc.
• Crackers fall under this category
• Use reverse engineering of assembly code to make
  it open source, or to customize it to their
  liking
• Also known as pirates, or warez writers

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What motivates a hacker

• To help others
• Hooliganism
• Criminal intent
• Financial gain
• Most hacker activity is of a nature where money
  is rarely involved
• Curiosity
• Intellectual Challenge
• Security heads-up!

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The hacking community- who belongs

• To join, have to be recognized
• Sharing your creations (time, creativity, open
  source programs)
• Learn to code efficiently
• Hackers like well-coded programs
• Better the program- more kudos
• Become recognized when top hackers recognize you

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The hacking community- the Hacker Ethic

1. reject hierarchies
2. mistrust authority
3. promote decentralization
4. share information
5. serve your community (i.e. the hacker community)

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Reject Hierarchies

• User no less important than author
• User may be able to improve product
• Authors are also users of others products
• People are only judged on skill
• No social class, age, gender, race restrictions
• Open source programs
• Hacking into secure networks
• Hackers ignore what society says about class
• Have their own community
• Have their own system

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Mistrust Authority

• Believe in libertarian environment
• Everyman for himself
• Government shouldnt dictate our boundaries
• A rule is meant to be broken
• If said cant be done green light to do it
• Increased security better problem to solve
• Increased security is better reason to find
  loopholes

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Promote Decentralization

• Every man for himself mentality
• Segregation from society good
• Keeps your identity more secure
• More efficient work can be done
• Cooperation can occur over internet
• Dont need to be physically near each other
• Communities operate worldwide

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Share Information

• Believe all info should be free
• no restricted info
• no top secret files
• Governments should NOT hide things
• software should be open source
• Open source free/no copyrights
• Increases awareness of software out there
• Value of info increases when shared
• Data can be basis for learning
• software can be improved collectively

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Serve Your Community

• Contribute to open source projects
• Become beta tester
• Code new projects to share
• Make improvements to existing ones
• Keep Hacker infrastructure intact
• Make FAQs on how to be a hacker
• Establish websites/meeting places for hackers
• Boring jobs maintain mailing lists, project
  databases/archives, moderate hacker news groups

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Conclusion

• Gave broad overview of hackers/hacker culture
• what is a hacker?
• White hat
• Grey hat
• Black hat/cracker
• Hacker motivations
• Hacker Community
• Who belongs
• The rules of the game (aka Hacker Ethic)