New Guides to Happy Hacking

Growing up i didn't have Internet at home, as a teenager in a small town in a developing country my encounters with the net came sporadically, cybercafes weren't even a thing yet and Windows 95 was making its debut.

I was already interested in computers and luckily my father had one at work. Every once in a while he would get a new one and i would get the old one, with some accounting programs and DOS games. I would explore the folders and files and write small batch scripts that would copy and delete files, such fun!

I don't remember how it happend, but talking to a school mate who also was into computers he introduced me to Carolyn Meinel's Guide to (mostly) Harmless Hacking. He would print out the newsletter, take it to school and sell it to me for a few bucks. I would take it home, read it over and over and dream about having a shell account, connecting to mail servers using telnet and spoofing emails. After that i was all in into computers and hacking, and still do.

Now, 20 years later, i think back on that and i'm thankful for her guides. Maybe i would've stick into computers anyway, but she gave me the hacker ethos, the curiosity to dig around and i would like to do the same for others. But this is not the same happy naive world where only tinfoil hats would ever consider Echelon being a real thing, and so this guides won't be so strictly harmless.

So let me know what you'd like to see a guide for. Also if you'd like the guides to be in spanish i could do it too, and maybe will anyway since there's a lot more material in english.

Some issues we'll cover are:

• Privacy. How to take care of yourself. Using VPNs, proxys and TOR to protect your identity and not have to cops pop in.
• Web. How does the web work. What are the most common bugs and how to exploit them. Tools that make this easier.
• Networking. See the low level inner workings of the net you use every day.
• Linux-Fu. Tools and scripting powers to make hacking fun again.
• Binary exploitation. I'm still learning this, but in time i'll share with you whatever i learn and the resources i find.
• Whatever you think of and i can provide.

Don't forget to comment and happy hacking!