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| Especially equipment-wise. How much does it cost to pursue something like this? I hear for somebody that was doing a job, say hired to test breaking in to someone's facility (Not including the action-packed shit hell no) doing this kind of stuff on the move, like our friendly Aiden pierce. it wouldn't be mobile phone sized. It'd be backpack sized. Does that mean just computer, or actually other things that you carry with it that are, less transportational?
| I'm just completely guessing but I'd go with something like the raspberry pi or something similar with a usb battery strong enough to power it, install Kali Linux up there and start exploring n coding
| >how to become a hacker
here you go:
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
| Go into infosec.
| Pen-testing can be done on site or remote. It requires a contract with the company that is hiring you, tools to conduct the work, and tools to document your findings.
In pen testing it's your job to find vulnerabilities in a company's infrastructure in order to recommend security procedures or software to cover up the holes that you find.
| There's much more to cyber security (mainly the hacking you're thinking of) than just penetration testing. There's security analyst, security software engineer, security architect, security engineer, security admin, cryptanalyst, cryptographer and perhaps more.
Experience for real world ethical hacking would be to start brushing up with ethical hacking resources, books and any free courses you can find online.
| One of the big places to start is Kali Linux. It's the OS that most ethical hackers use for work. You can use any but there are plenty of tools for say pen-testing from a Kali Linux environment.
Another good place to start would be Nanobyte or Metasploit or any online pen-testing labs you can find.
Some paid courses could be good but very expensive. They're mostly good for certification preparation which honestly you can do yourself with an exam reference for the specific cert.
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| Since I was a smaller g/u/rl, seeing things like hackers, programmers and robotic engineers have been the most absolutely fascinating thing. The one that's kinda sorta made me feel all fuzzy inside recently was the Watchdogs serious.
Now I know, I know it isn't possible to get to that level of bad ass-ry yet. But I do want to learn this sort of "hacking" thing as a future career. Like pentesting and stuff. Where do I start? How do I get experience for real world ethical hacking?