The Newbie’s handbook! + hackers manifesto

Disclaimer-
I am not responsible for any of the information in this document if it is
used for any other purpose than educational reading. Some of the
information on this page can be used illegally if the reader does not act
responsibly. The reader is responsible for his own actions.
You can copy anything from this file to any other file as long as you quote,
don’t change it up and give me the proper credit…like:

Into:

When I got into hacking, I realized that there weren’t many text phones for
newbies. so, I decided to write one. I don’t really care about misspelled
words or punctuation so, please ignore the mistakes. In this document, I will
refer you to other documents a lot. (because why should I waste my time
rewriting something that has already been written?) If at any time while
reading this document you ask yourself “So…How do I hack?”, then go away
now and save yourself the frustration because you’ll never learn. To
hack you must understand everything about a system, and then you can get
ideas and try them out.

I tried to keep this file as short as possible, when you read this you
should just get an idea about how to hack and why we hack. If you read this
document and the files that I have listed, you should have a good idea
of what to do, how to do it, and why. Remember every ‘project’ is different.
You have to use your brain and adjust to each different one.
Tools:

There are a few things you need to have to be a hacker/phreaker.
‘puter – computer (duh)
terminal software – a program like hyper terminal or ordinary terminal
that allows you to dial out to another system.
blue box – (excerpted from 2600faq)Blue boxes use a 2600hz tone to size
control telephone switches that use in-band signaling. The caller may
then access special switch functions, with the usual purpose of making
free long-distance phone calls, using the tones provided by the Blue Box.

scanner – a scanner is a program that dials out every number in your area
and listens for tones that are coming from other modems. (helps you locate
your local targets) a good scanner is Toneloc. Find it!
Fone (Phone) line – I hope you know what this is…
It also helps to know a computer language ex: C, C++, etc.
Info resources:
I don’t know many good boards anymore because almost all of their sysops
(system operators) have been busted. But I suggest you get a server that
uses Netscape and get unlimited access to the www(World wide web). And visit
these good homepages by entering their name in the web crawlers search
engine (http://webcrawler.com)