How To Become A Hacker.pdf

As editor of the Jargon File and author of a few other well-known documents of similar nature, I often get email requests from enthusiastic network newbies asking (in effect) "how can I learn to be a wizardly hacker?". Back in 1996 I noticed that there didn't seem to be any other FAQs or web documents that addressed this vital question, so I started this one. A lot of hackers now consider it definitive, and I suppose that means it is. Still, I don't claim to be the exclusive authority on this topic; if you don't like what you read here, write your own. If you are reading a snapshot of this document offline, the current version lives at

How To Become A Hacker.pdf

As editor of the Jargon File and author of a few other well-known documents of similar nature, I often get email

requests from enthusiastic network newbies asking (in effect) "how can I learn to be a wizardly hacker?". Back

in 1996 I noticed that there didn't seem to be any other FAQs or web documents that addressed this vital

question, so I started this one. A lot of hackers now consider it definitive, and I suppose that means it is. Still, I

don't claim to be the exclusive authority on this topic; if you don't like what you read here, write your own.

If you are reading a snapshot of this document offline, the current version lives at

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