What Kind Of Hacker Are You? - Printable Version

Hackers Introduction

Now a days a lot of people want to be hackers. It is a good
thing to have some extra stuffs in our knowledge bank. So
lets start with the basics of hacking, by understanding the
different types of hackers. There are mainly 3 types of
hackers:

Black Hat Hackers

This category of hackers is also known as "crackers".
Hackers in this category are always tempted to gain
privileges of someone(s) system without the authorization
or permission. Usually these peoples works individually for
their own gains/fun. But as a team they can be deadly and
their impact can cause trouble to a greater extent. Their
activity mainly includes DDOS attacks to websites, Site
Defacing, Identity Theft, Vandalism etc. You will be lectured
in detail about these terms in the following tutorials.

White Hat Hackers

In contradiction to Black hat hackers, White hat hackers
are life-saving angels to many. They are also designated
as "Ethical Hackers". In fact, Ethical Hacking is a career in
today's word for many. To be an approved WHH, you need
to be certified. But who cares about a certification, when
we know what we are talking about and when we have a good and helping mind.
To be more specific about their do's, they perform security tests
on different systems with the authority's authorization which would be definitely
illegal when the hands of a BHH gets involved. When
compared to BHH, WHH are small in count, but they are
still powerful.

Grey Hat Hackers

As you can probably imagine, these are those categories of
hackers who hacks for both good and bad. They usually do
Black hatting for their malicious intentions and do White
hatting with good intentions. In short, they help and harm.
The majority ofthe people fall in this category. So they are
typical hackers and still a potential threat!

Which One Should I Become?

If you are asking me, it will be a definite WHH. But you don't
have to listen to me. What I want to tell you is, it will be
always better to know what you are getting into. Hackers
are sometimes getting caught, and when they are caught,
they will be charges and sometimes may sent to jail for
some short period of time if you are not a certified WHH. If
you are asking me, I suggest you to keep learning until you
gain some good knowledge in the matter and know how to
remove all the traces of your hack.here can be different
potential traces (like logs of the system you have hacked your information's that got captured by the hacked system
etc) that can lead an expert to pin point the hand cuffs to
your hands. The different methods to remove the traces of
the hacks will be lectured in the following tutorials I plan to post.

Other types of Hackers

"Dude just wait a sec! I thought you were saying there are
only 3 types of hackers in the world!"

Well and of-course, there are only 3 types of hackers. But
there are some different subcategories for these types.
Just like some Ranks by which we can categorize.

Elite Hacker - A grade rank meant to describe the the most
skilled/ reputed hackers. They knew/ discover the hacking
methods that are still unknown and that are not been fixed.

Script Kiddie - A lower rank than the above one that
designates someone that uses tools made by others to do
some stuff and they don't even know a shit about the real
hacking.

Neophyte - A much lower rank that describes a person that
is a newbie to this matter and is having a little a knowledge
about this matter.

Hacktivist - As the name rhymes to "Terrorist", they are the
people who hacks to inject some religious, political
anarchy.

Green Hat Hackers- As the name indicates, they love
green. They hack only for money. They will not think about
the cause. They just want the money from their slaves.

Now just start reading a few tutorials a day, and learn all you can.
Eventually it will stick in your head with practice. Then, you'll be ub3r L33t.