{"id":166,"date":"2016-02-04T16:57:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T21:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2016-02-04T16:57:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T21:57:06","slug":"how-do-you-become-a-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"how do you become a hacker?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I sometimes get asked how one can develop the skills needed to do what I do for a living. This is a tricky thing to answer, because being a good hacker ultimately means you think “wrong”, not just that you understand tech.<\/p>\n

When I interview people for a job, of course I’m looking to see if you have technical chops. More importantly though, I’m looking to see how you think, and how you handle unexpected things.<\/p>\n

That “hacker mindset” quality is hard to define, tough to extract over the course of a brief interview, and impossible to teach. We can bring people up to speed in tech stuff, business stuff, project management stuff, etc., but thinking crooked, that’s not really a teachable skill; you either do it, or you don’t.<\/span><\/p>\n

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All that said, understanding tech is definitely a requirement, and fortunately there are tons of ways to gain skills in this (one fantastic resource for this is the book “The Web Application Hackers Handbook<\/a>” written by PortSwigger).<\/p>\n

There are a bunch of resources online as well, (free in most cases), so I threw together a small list of some quality sites that teach tech\/hacking:<\/p>\n

Programming<\/strong><\/p>\n