Hacking Into Computer Systems - A Beginners Guide | HACKING INTO COMPUTER SYSTEMS A Beginners Guide Guides of the Beginner s Series So you want to be a harmless hacker Hacking Windows 95 Hacking into Windows 95 and a little bit of NT lore Hacking from Windows 95 and NT How to Get a Good Shell Account Part 1 How to Get a Good Shell Account Part 2 How to use the Web to look up information on hacking. Computer hacking. Where did it begin and how did it grow GUIDE TO mostly HARMLESS HACKING Beginners Series 1 So you want to be a harmless hacker You mean you can hack without breaking the law That was the voice of a high school freshman. He had me on the phone because his father had just taken away his computer. His offense Cracking into my Internet account. The boy had hoped to impress me with how kewl he was. But before I realized he had gotten in a sysadmin at my ISP had spotted the kid s harmless explorations and had alerted the parents. Now the boy wanted my help in getting back on line. I told the kid that I sympathized with his father. What if the sysadmin and I had been major grouches This kid could have wound up in juvenile detention. Now I don t agree with putting harmless hackers in jail and I would never have testified against him. But that s what some people do to folks who go snooping in other people s computer accounts -- even when the culprit does no harm. This boy needs to learn how to keep out of trouble Hacking is the most exhilarating game on the planet. But it stops being fun when you end up in a cell with a roommate named Spike. But hacking doesn t have to mean breaking laws. In this series of Guides we teach safe hacking so that you don t have to keep looking back over your shoulders for narcs and cops. What we re talking about is hacking as a healthy recreation and as a free education that can qualify you to get a high paying job. In fact many network systems administrators computer scientists and computer security experts first learned their professions not in some college program but from the
