The Only 'How to Start Hacking' Tutorial You Need
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A five-panel comic strip illustrating a humorous take on how beginners are introduced to hacking. In the first panel, a cheerful character asks, 'I WANT TO START HACKING, BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET STARTED!'. In the second panel, a large hand forcefully grabs the character's arm, causing a look of panic. The third panel shows the hand pushing a Tux, the Linux mascot, into the character's hand. In the fourth panel, the hand gently guides the now-distressed character to a laptop. The final panel shows the character sweating and overwhelmed in front of the laptop, while the hand gives an encouraging thumbs-up. The meme satirizes the common, and often daunting, advice given to aspiring hackers: to learn Linux. It captures the steep learning curve and the 'sink or swim' mentality sometimes present in the security and developer communities
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The universal 'getting started with hacking' guide: Step 1: Install Linux. Step 2: Forget everything you know about intuitive user interfaces. Step 3: Your real first hack is figuring out how to exit Vim
Our red-team onboarding test is just a live-USB distro; if the newbie can get the Wi-Fi and trackpad working, they’ve already proven more privilege-escalation skill than half our bug-bounty reports
Ah yes, the classic pipeline: 'I want to be a hacker' → discovers Linux → spends next 6 months configuring i3wm and arguing about systemd instead of learning actual security fundamentals. We've all mentored that junior who installed Kali as their daily driver before understanding what sudo does
The classic security career path: Step 1 - Get excited about hacking. Step 2 - Install Linux. Step 3 - Spend the next six months just trying to get your WiFi drivers working. By the time you've mastered systemd, SELinux policies, and why your audio suddenly stopped working after an update, you've accidentally become a sysadmin instead of a pentester. The real hack was the kernel panics we encountered along the way
Every “teach me hacking” onboarding is just handing over Linux - five minutes in you’re root, ten minutes in you’re arguing with systemd and nftables, and by lunch you’ve learned the only zero‑day was your sudoers file
Classic onboarding: hand 'em Tux, watch 'em GRUB-hunt their way to strace enlightenment - or EFI hell
Everyone wants 0-days; the real rite of passage is privilege escalating your WiFi drivers with sudo apt --fix-broken install
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