Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!199.45.49.37!cyclone1.gnilink.net!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!attbi_s52.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Voyager Organization: The alt.2600 / #hack FAQ Subject: alt.2600 FAQ Revision 2004/01/31 - Part 1/1 User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-ID: Newsgroups: alt.2600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 41 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.9.189.132 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: attbi_s52 1075556700 24.9.189.132 (Sat, 31 Jan 2004 13:45:00 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 13:45:00 GMT Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 13:45:00 GMT Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu alt.2600:726177 From: voyager@hackfaq.org (The Voyager) Newsgroups: alt.2600 Subject: alt.2600 FAQ Revision 2004/01/31 - Part 1/1 Followup-To: alt.2600 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU Reply-To: voyager@hackfaq.org (FAQ Comments address) Summary: This posting contains a list of Frequently Asked Questions (and their answers) about hacking. It should be read by anyone who wishes to post to the alt.2600 newsgroup or use the IRC channel #hack. Archive-Name: alt-2600/faq Posting-Frequency: Monthly Last-Modified: 2004/01/31 Version: 2004/01/31 Welcome to the alt.2600/#hack FAQ: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Hacking The purpose of the alt.2600/#hack FAQ is to give you a general introduction to the art and science of hacking. No document will make you a hacker. The alt.2600/#hack FAQ started as a FAQ for the IRC channel #hack and was later adopted by the alt.2600 newsgroup. The alt.2600/#hack FAQ now exists as a web document for all of the Internet. Please use the information contained in the alt.2600/#hack FAQ wisely. If you have a question regarding any of the topics covered in the alt.2600/#hack FAQ, please direct it to the alt.2600 newsgroup. Please do not e-mail me your questions; I do not have time to respond to each request personally. The alt.2600 / #hack FAQ is no longer maintained it as an ASCII text file. The only authoritative source for the current alt.2600/#hack FAQ is on the world wide web at http://www.hackfaq.org Voyager .