First Course In Ethical Hacking

As a youngster, the romance of hacking took hold of my imagination. Computers were always my passion, and the myth (legend?) of kids who moved a satellite by messing around were well known and the subject of daydreaming. But where to begin? While still working a student job, I got my hands on the "e;Hackers Handbook"e;. To put things in perspective, the internet was young, Microsoft did not believe in CD-ROMs and "e;Do you Netscape"e; was the web browsing term.Modems were the way you connected.I printed the entire "e;Handbook"e; on a dot matrix printer, ready to enrich myself with the knowledge of hackers. The text was about BAUD, modems and the protocols used by BBSs. I found the reading as exiting as a student who got his hands on a banned copy of The Little Red Book. But the content proved rather less than insightful. Yes, hacking was different when the words were uttered "e;the beauty of the baud"e; (from the original Hackers Manifesto), but times have changed and changed again in a very short period of time.