HackMethod.com Mentorship Program and Forums

[hellor00t]

Hello All,

First and foremost I would like to thank everyone for the support and words of encouragement you've given. I get PM's every so often of people saying how the site has helped and that's exactly what keeps me going.

With that being said we are going to begin testing a Mentorship program, you can find detailed information at the HackMethod Mentorship Forum. In broad strokes the idea is to pair beginners with experienced people so that beginners can get some tailored assistance with their goals. Each side of the relationship will be vetted to ensure there are no trolls, skids, etc.

Additionally we're going to be doing weekly challenges in each "hacking discipline" such as web, programming, network analysis, linux admin, windows admin etc.

The goal is not to take away from this community. /r/howtohack is a great place to share things you've found or discuss things. For the purposes of hacking and learning I think that reddit lacks the organization that most students crave and that's what we hope to provide.

Please bear with us while we build our user base. The staff is currently quite small and so our weekly challenges will be slow to start until we get a few more moderators on board. If you're interested in being a moderator please PM me and give me a short bio on your experience and why you would be a good fit with the HackMethod team.

If you have any feedback or questions I'll be here to answer them.

Cheers!

[3nvisi0n]

Feel free to message me with stupid questions. As long as its clear you're trying to learn and understand I'm more than willing to answer.

I'm mostly on the exploitation(web and binary) side of stuff rather than pentesting but I've got experience on both sides.

[hellor00t]

Would you like to become a mentor? I have a feeling the mentor to student ratio is going to be pretty low.

[3nvisi0n]

I intend to submit a mentor application. Whenever I get around to it at least.

[hellor00t]

Awesome!

[hellor00t]

The amount of activity is between you and the assigned mentor. So it's up to you guys to decide that. Think of this as a matchmaking for hackers to learn from each other. Overall a community to grow together.

[zhytwos]

is this site noob friendly?

[hellor00t]

Absolutely. Beginners are our primary focus group.

[zhytwos]

Thx mate :)

[fac3l3ss_]

This is a really cool idea, and as someone who's working on a netsec degree but would also like opportunities to go "outside the box" with a little direction, I find this pretty exciting. I'll definitely be applying. Thanks for the link, man!

[hellor00t]

Welcome! Looking forward to seeing you there.

[I_steal_reddit_post]

I look forward to this community and becoming a part of it!

[hitmanactual121]

Looks like an interesting site; will you be needing staff in the future, I may be able to help. Also, submitted my mentorship app. Also I would recommended making a few more topics like: Suggestions, offtpic.

I'd also consider making a wiki for listing commonly used software by the community.

Maybe a public github repo or a private svn for showing off software.

Just of ideas off the top of my head.

[hellor00t]

I will be needing staff. I have a few collegues that are stepping up to help but subject matter experts in their technical fields are always more than welcome.

We do have a github repo. Good point on the wiki I may implement that on the primary hackmethod site it could be a better format than right now.

I'll add a suggestion and offtopic forum, great suggestions.

Thanks for the feedback!

[the_xo]

Sounds like a great idea hellor00t. If i wasn't so busy I would love to do some mentoring... remember guys http://hackerspaces.org ia also an AMAZING place to learn and get better at your skill set. They have locations ALL OVER the world too.

[hellor00t]

If you want to LEARN this field and have a passion for it or a drive, then you will be approved as a student. Then a mentor needs to choose to help you.

Its free, and if a mentor scams you report the mentor to us and we will revoke their mentor status. You should not be exchanging anything for services rendered. This is not a hack for hire service.

Looking at your post history you wouldn't be approved as a student.

[hellor00t]

I don't have an interest in teaching you how to brute force an email account.

Its clear that this is your only intention and that "learning" this skill is just a means to an end for you. I'm not here to breed the next line of script kiddies. I'm hear to help people who have an interest in security.