RE: What's a good IRC Channel to go to for hacking advise?

["Quark IT - Hilton Travis" <Hilton () QuarkIT com au>]

Hi Chip,

Remember that without real world experience, books and paper-based
learning (instructor-led or other) isn't really going to prepare you for
your first job with real clients.  Get *all* the networking and
programming experience you can now - don't go to LAN gaming weekends,
study up and practice what you're learning.  Of course, unless you're
going to these LANs to ethically hack.  :)

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> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of Chip Panarchy
> Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2008 3:58 PM
>
> Hello
>
> Just wondering if you knew of a good IRC channel (and server) that
> you'd recommend I go to for hacking advise.
>
> I am hoping to one day become a white-hat hacker.
>
> And I want to learn as much about hacking as possible.
>
> Yes, I know this is a very broad subject... but that doesn't change
> that I want to learn as much of it as I can!
>
> So far I am 10 months through a 24 month networking course (where at
> the end of it I will probably sit for my CCNA and MCSE).
>
> I thought that that would be as good a place as any to start.
>
> And I have been reading programming books (borrowed about 5
> programming text-books, around half for Java and the other 'half' for
> C++). So hopefully by the end of the next 14 months (hopefully much
> sooner) I will be an apt programmer and 'networker'.
>
> I think that that will be the best way to start off as a pen-tester
> &/or white-hat hacker.
>
> Though in the meantime, I am interested in finding an IRC channel
> where I can 'chat' to white-hat (and black-hat?) hackers, and learn as
> much of them as I can!
>
> I will also try and learn as much as I can from this mailing list.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice/IRC channels given,
>
> Chip Panarchy


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