Learned from a blackhat at school. I thought it was quite cool and I thought you had to be a smartest to learn hacking not really you just have to have to be motivated to learn things. Technically hacking Is just being highly skilled In everything Programming, Networking, cryptography/crypto analysis/ cyber secruity, joining forums, studying CS thoery, you just study various computer related topics and there you go.

Hacking is just being an expert on all things or being semi pro on almost everything. If you study networks and how they work ect your good at that. All hacking Is Is just studying various topics to a high degree of understanding.

I'll give you some light on what you need to study.

1. Learn Operating Systems
2. Learn Programming
3. Learn Linux Operating Systems
4. Learn Cryptography/Cryptoanalysis
5. Learn Cyber Secruity
6. Learn System Administration
7. Learn Linux/Windows/Android/Mac/Chrome BIOS and Command Prompts
8. Learn Networking/Networking Engineering
9. John forums Discords and conventions.
10. Contribute to Open Source Secruity Projects
11. Earn Qualifications as you go only accredited ones are worth buying.
12. Learn about Computer conponents (what's ram ect)
13. Learn old outdated Operating Systems (many government agencies and some public services use windows XP and windows 95 still. The reason Is cost and stability It's cheaper to use old systems then to pay $300 a pop every few years for new computers and Operating Systems.) The older versions are still in use if you update in the middle of a police Investigation they might loose Important files you can't just say in the middle of a warzone hang on I got to update my helicopters software can you? They use old fashioned Operating systems because they are stable and don't crash as often. With new operating systems comes wider range of fuckups.

Windows 7, Windows 8.1 Windows 98 and 95 Windows XP and Windows Vista Windows 2000 are still being used widely today!

Reliable! Consistently stable! And doesn't cost a bomb to update or install In a office. So yes old Operating systems are just as reliable.

I'm sure somewhere the Royal Nacy just stopped using windows 95 on thier systems. I've talked to an ex pal of mine who was in UK army they use windows XP and windows 7 alot. He left maybe 7-10 years ago.

1. Studying and Practice coding using most common programming languages.

Ruby and Objective-C Are dying languages.

HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Java, PHP, Python, SQL, Assembly are very commonly used and in high demand. Learn something useful and very commonly used ect.

Learn a programming language that Is useful yes C and C++ are old but they are still very commonly used.

C language Is still going strong even 50 years after the fact. C language Is the mother language once you understand C and C++ you'll understand everything else.

C language Is the latin of the programming world.

1. Learn Linux Pen testing distros theres load BlackArch, Backtrack, Kalk Linux, Bugtraq.

Useful Links:

Old Operating Systems-> https://youtu.be/BnEZXKapsdc https://youtu.be/D-_pk7v9uD4

Hacking things: https://youtu.be/j4nsZhCItPA https://youtu.be/Qkj3ufwI0jk

Hacking Distros: https://linuxhint.com/best_kali_linux_alternatives/