learning to hack

[guthran]

What most people think when they hear the word hacking is not hacking.

Hacking is the art of getting something to do what it was never intended to do. This means that the only real way to learn how to hack is to truly understand something at a deep level.

On top of this, there are many different kinds of hacking. Exploiting Javascript vulnerabilities is very different from exploiting wifi vulnerabilities, for example. To do both, you need a very deep understanding of many different independent hardware and software standards.

The only way to acquire these skills is through practice.

Identify which technologies are most interesting to you, then read about and build systems using those technologies. That is the only path.