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You can flank learning from multiple directions. There are so many ways to learn any given thing that it's nearly impossible to be certain that you're learning the right way. And when your money is on the line, you want to be sure that your cash is well-spent and won't be wasted on something that you're not even sure is going to teach you what you need. With Hacking: Simple and Effective Strategies to Learn Hacking, you don't have to worry about that. This book is going to teach you multiple super effective avenues by which you can learn the concepts underlying hacking: critical thinking and creative problem solving. By stressing user interaction and experimentation, we encourage every single reader by refusing to hold their hand through boring tutorials and long swaths of code that they don't understand. We explain the broader concepts to you and the ways that you can learn, not just repeat. Popular computer hackers are generally in agreeance about what makes a strong contender in the hacking culture. Among these are a certain attitude, which we go in-depth on. However, we also teach the things that they say are most conducive to being an effective hacker. By the end of the book, we're certain that the reader understands the basic of important concepts such as network hacking, allowing the user to connect to any computer worldwide and exploit it from the comfort of their terminal; programming, allowing the user to tie all of the concepts they're learning in neat little scripts and programs which will do the bulk of the heavy lifting for them; social engineering, allowing the user to get access to sensitive information offline so that they can better reach their ultimate goal, whatever it may be; and web-hacking, teaching the user about popular avenues for disrupting websites and running scripts where they aren't supposed to be run, so that the user can better protect their own websites and have the knowledge to carry out these operations for testing purposes in order to ensure that their sites are secure. By the end of this book, you'll feel very accomplished, and we can assure you that you will be well on your way to being the best hacker that you can possibly be. If you're looking for a book that will carry you to understanding hacking better than you thought possible and being on the road to being a major superstar hacker, then this is the book for you.