How to Look Like a Computer Cracker

Last Updated: September 15, 2021

There is no specific "look" that all crackers share. There are as many different kinds of cracker as there are shapes of cookie. Some crackers operate in basements in eastern Germany probably dressed in suits, others may work for the NSA or a terrorist organization, while others may be well-educated middle class teenagers fascinated by computers. All crackers do have one thing in common, their desire to gain unauthorized access to a computer system with malicious intent. In other words, crackers are criminals, they break and enter. There is no "one" look for criminals either.

Steps

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Understand that there is a difference between a hacker and a cracker. They both work with software. They find problems with computer systems. The main difference is that hackers create, while crackers exploit. Hackers do not intentionally break the law; only crackers do.
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Watch movies featuring crackers who share your basic demographics. Copy the way they dress in the movies.

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3
Read books about crackers, and copy the way they dress in the books.
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Discover the fun and benefits of social engineering.
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Spend as much time as possible in front of a computer. While there, you might learn programming, or try securing your own computer and breaking into that.
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Learn to touch type. You can't look like a cracker without being able to type fast.
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Learn the vocabulary of computer security, like "black hat", and drop those terms into your everyday speech.
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Learn UNIX, or at least a few command line tools, and use them.
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Install and learn Linux. Come back here when you are done and read this again.
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Make sure you have an account on IRC and you know at least one RFC number.
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Be familiar with the hacker's lingo like skiddie, defcon, bofs (Buffer Overflows) .

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Warnings

Looking like a cracker is not going to get you girls. Confidence and self-assurance will get you girls.

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Getting rid of your friends and not shaving are not good. You might not be able to regain these friends.

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This is ONLY a guide for how to LOOK like crackers/script kiddies. Hackers are completely different. Do NOT do this and call yourself a Hacker. If you ever meet a real Hacker and he sees you doing this and calling yourself a Hacker, he will laugh.

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Under no circumstances, never send to the developer community forum questions, how to crack the software they are developing. This is unlikely to be helpful and it is not uncommon to get insulting messages back.

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Remember breaking into someone else's digital device with out explicit authorisation is a serious offence.

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