1) Are you sure. It is tough to be a hacker. And football players get all the attention.

2) Really? Read on

3) Read Hacker’s Code

The Hacker’s Code

“A hacker of the Old Code.”

Hackers come and go, but a great hack is forever.
Public goods belong to the public.*
Software hoarding is evil.
Software does the greatest good given to the greatest number.
Don’t be evil.
Sourceless software sucks.
People have rights.
Organizations live on sufferance.
Governments are organizations.
If it is wrong when citizens do it,
it is wrong when governments do it.
Information wants to be free.
Information deserves to be free.
Being legal doesn’t make it right.
Being illegal doesn’t make it wrong.
Subverting tyranny is the highest duty.
Trust your technolust!

4) Read How to be a hacker by

Eric Steven Raymond

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

or just get the Hacker Attitude

The Hacker Attitude

1. The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved.
2. No problem should ever have to be solved twice.
3. Boredom and drudgery are evil.
4. Freedom is good.
5. Attitude is no substitute for competence.




5) If you are tired of reading English, maybe I should move on to technical stuff



6) Create your hacking space, a virtual disk on your machine.
You will need to learn a bit of Linux. If you are a Windows user, I recommend creating a VMWare partition with Ubuntu
If you like Mac, I recommend the more aesthetic Linux Mint.



How to create your virtual disk-
read here-

Download VM Player here
http://www.vmware.com/support/product-support/player/

Down iso image of operating system here
http://ubuntu.com


Downloading is the longest thing in this exercise

Now just do what is written here
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_player40.pdf




or if you want to try and experiment with other ways to use Windows and Linux just read this
http://www.decisionstats.com/ways-to-use-both-windows-and-linux-together/






Moving data back and forth between your new virtual disk and your old real disk
http://www.decisionstats.com/moving-data-between-windows-and-ubuntu-vmware-partition/



7) Get Tor to hide your IP address when on internet
https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-windows.html.en



8a ) Block Ads using Ad-block plugin when surfing the internet (like 14.95 million other users)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/

8b) and use Mafiafire to get elusive websites
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mafiaafire-redirector/


9) Get a Bit Torrent Client at http://www.utorrent.com/
This will help you download stuff


10) Hacker Culture Alert-

This instruction is purely for sharing the culture but not the techie work of being a hacker


The website Pirate bay acts like a search engine for Bit torrents
http://thepiratebay.se/
Visiting it is considered bad since you can get lots of music, videos, movies etc for free, without paying copyright fees.


The website 4chan is considered a meeting place to meet other hackers. The site can be visually shocking
http://boards.4chan.org/b/



You need to do atleast set up these systems, read the websites and come back in N month time for second part in this series on how to learn to be a hacker. That will be the coding part.

END OF PART 1
Updated – sorry been a bit delayed on next part. Will post soon.