Hacking: 3 Books in 1- The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Learn Hacking Effectively + Tips and Tricks to learn Hacking + Strategies(Basic Security, Wireless Hacking, Ethical Hacking, Programming) by Daniel Jones

Author:Daniel Jones
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2017-08-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

Install Kali Linux and

Start Experimenting

Ah, Linux. Linux is essentially a rite of passage to being a hacker. Are there hackers that use Windows? Yes. Are there hackers that use Mac? Yes. Can you hack on anything, including an old computer running Windows 98? Yes. Barely, but yes. You can hack on anything. But there are a plethora of reasons why you should install and learn Linux.

The quickest way to learn anything is by experience and experimentation, we went over that in chapter 2. Installing Linux gives you the perfect opportunity to do just that, and if you want to learn to hack, you can’t at all go wrong with installing Linux.

Actually, all things considered, Linux is the operating system of choice for a large percentage of the hacking community. You may be wondering why this is. Well, the principal reason is that Linux is open-source, and we talked in the first chapter regarding how the hacking community loves nothing more than things that are wide open for them to see. The Linux kernel was built by a guy named Linus Torvalds as an alternative to the proprietary versions of Unix software. (Linux historians, spare me a bit if my history is a little off!) It was built from the ground up to be open and built upon. It was the ultimate tinker-toy for a legion of hackers, programmers, and computer science enthusiasts. This gives it a historical basis for being the operating system of choice. But there’s also more to it.

Since Linux is already what could be considered the pretty much ideal operating system for a subculture based around openness and tinkering, there’s actually a sort of circular line of affection which builds for it. Hackers absolutely adore Linux, and because of this, they build software specifically compatible with Linux. The fact that hackers build hacking software for it actually reinforces the idea that Linux is the go-to operating system for hackers everywhere and Linux has what is the perfect groundwork for a beginning hacker.

To really go beyond that, Windows and macOS are, without a doubt, the operating systems of choice for most personal computers. But when you look out there at the technical world, full of servers and endless information and gigantic databases and host farms, Windows and macOS are not players. They’re not even close. Out in that world, *nix systems are what really have a legitimate claim to the throne. By using a Linux operating system, people become familiar with the *nix and Unix system. They’re then able to more easily use and take advantage of these systems. There’s no doubt that implementations of *nix environments exist for other operating systems that aren’t *nix based. For example, Cygwin for Windows is a historical relic that it’d be impossible to forget. But with that said, there are oceans of hacking software available to an enterprising Linux hacker, and it makes using Linux a very obvious choice because when everything is available to you, it simply put just

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