I often get requests to hack that user or that site. Often those people are inexperienced and don’t understand the time and will that goes in to some projects. To spend hours and hours to mapping and getting an overview of the server you need will and motivation. And then you get a request you often don’t feel that motivate to attack the target in question. But there are different kinds of motivation. The biggest and the one I use is my own curiosity or urge to have a site. Second best is to gain a favor from a friend or collage. Third is money, everyone needs that. So next time you ask a random hacker to do something think about dose three reasons and ask yourself if your request meets any of the criteria. I don’t get angry if my friends send me a request, but people I hardly know should even bother.
Even worse than that are people that think everything is easy to hack or that I have some kind of “super one click program” that I can use to get access to everything. They don’t understand that not everyone can do anything. Your need a set of skills and knowledge and that it takes time and effort to enquire them. From now on when people ask me to teach them to hack ill answer: “If you know how to Google and some PHP/*SQL/Perl(CGI)/ASP. Etc, and Unix, know some things about Apache/IIS and basic TCP. Then I’ll show you the way of the force”.
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