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Teaching HackForums - Th3PonyWizard - Sep 9, 2014
https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=4420622
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Hey guys. Before I leave this forum due to me wanting to focus on the bigger stuff in my future, I want to take a quick last look and revamp my latest project in hackforums: Beginner hacking teaching.
It's almost like a taboo sort of thing in the more advanced circle of security intermediates and experts. People don't teach. If you're good enough, you'll reach everything yourself, so if you expect to be spoon fed you won't get far at all.
My reasons:
1) To educate beginners in Hackforums 1 on 1, the curious, information seeking ones which just need a point to the right direction. Different people need different ways to learn.
2) Compete against something I don't like: Paid hacking lessons. I've seen one of them which charged an absurd amount of a price to a lesson, I knew I was better than the guy and felt actual remorse seeing people pay him such a high amount. So naturally I screwed it up by doing better and free.
3) Enumerate the amount of people here which truly want to begin VS skids-to-death, "how do I get cash out of this", and other types of people I won't elaborate on. The ratio is dumb. It's like 1:15. I get 1 true beginner for every single dude that wants me to setup his RAT.
Plus, I love teaching as much as I love learning. Passing knowledge to another dude feels right and helps me as well, when I explain something I know it better.
Information:
- I've added 96 people in my Skype since I started this.
- Only half of them actually replied to me after sending me a request.
- Only 1/5 guys of them have actually shown potential in becoming successful in these form of subjects.
- What I've taught was MOSTLY Website Development, followed by Website Security and Exploitation.
- Then, it's:
- Sever Penetration testing.
- Networking.
- And C/C++.
- I've received a donation of 32$ to sticky the thread for a week. Awesome.
Concluding this:
Some people in this forum just have some issues starting up. I think I did good, but then again I received a lot of just plain, boring help requests with stuff like: RAT support, eWhoring, Port forwarding, Crypting, DDoSing. The exception I was interested at was a C++ dude interested at how some malware works, and we sat down and talked it together.
So yeah. It was kind of fun but ultimately stressing out. I don't think I could've continued much longer. However, I still do.
I'm mass sending the link to this thread to anybody I added.
This DOES NOT MEAN my service is stopping. I STILL HELP, but I kinda sad to inform that I'm leaving HF for a good while (at least half a year) due to me wanting to get better at some stuff, and me registering military. I'll ban myself ASAP I'm done with stuff.
What do you guys think of what I tried to do? Do you think I'm wasting time? This should be a lovely discussion.
* - Jordan Belfort - Sep 9, 2014
its awsome thet you do this!
keep up the good work bro 🤝
* - CoBrAx. - Sep 9, 2014
Damn man you did good to this community we need more people like you.
* - Cyrus - Sep 9, 2014
I hope others experts follow in your footsteps and do the same as your doing now.
* - Brule - Sep 9, 2014
I can vouch for Sonder, he's a really smart pony!
* - -zERAiT - Sep 9, 2014
You did a great job on your service Sonder / Pony, more people should be like you!
Thanks for pointing me in the right directions!
-Ladax🤝
* - Sam Winchester - Sep 9, 2014
I can vouch for this, I'm one of his students at the moment. He's doing a really helpful thing for the community.
* - brentx97 - Sep 9, 2014
Great lol vouch for this THIS GUY IS NICEEEH
* - Eternal. - Sep 9, 2014
Sad to see you go, you were very knowledgeable.
* - VYKTOR - Sep 9, 2014
Oh man, I wish I could have been a part of that teaching program.
I'd have loved to learn about malwares & programming.
Good luck for your future & I hope you make a great fortune out of it.✌
* - Skorp - Sep 9, 2014
Me and Pony did some pentesting a couple (impossible for him and me to be online at the same time) of times for fun and let me tell you, he definitely is not a noob and knows his stuff as we had an awesome time. We had a good time doing that task and I can vouch for this member a.k.a my son. Doing great!
* - Vinnie - Sep 9, 2014
* - Deathmaul - Sep 9, 2014
Awesome person to work with. Glad to have met them. Always a pleasure meeting and working with HQ users here on the HF.
Thanks for doing things like this and good luck to you in the future. 🤝
* - Centuries - Sep 9, 2014
Big vouch he says he will still help and he will.
* - vaibs_noname - Sep 9, 2014
I agree with the point you're getting it; knowledge is free but at the end, not everyone has the potential to actually put time in effort into learning something. I believe that you'll only ever be able to learn and climb in something if you have a passion for it. If you're doing it because of any other reasons then you're probably not going to learn as easy as others might. I appreciate the few questions that you answered for me and it's really sad to see such a knowledgeable member leave the board, but what people aren't fully understanding is the fact that you can learn just as easy through books and similar resources.
I just think you've selected the wrong forum to offer this service on, that's all. I'm not saying it's not appreciated and people aren't going to be thankful for it, but at the end of the day - you could almost say the ones that had the really big desire to learn are the ones are are actually knowledgeable and have managed to learn.