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1 - first and foremost I want to learn C programming. I’ve spent a lot of time up until now learning Java and at my peak I was very capable with it. I’ve since lost a lot of the abilities I’ve had (especially related to GUI aspects and mouse events) but I’m sure I can get it back. But I want to learn its mother, C. C seems much more capable and much more advanced and anything UNIX related is going to be closely tied in with C so I want to learn it more in depth. I can do basic things with it (such as writing to the screen and calling functions, passing variables, having control statements etc.) but nothing too hard as of yet. I need to learn input still (it uses pointers which are still not committed to memory as of yet) and from there I’ll probably start playing with it at home. I’ll need to find some problems to solve otherwise I’ll get bored with it and won’t stretch my understanding of it. I’m on my way with C though so that’s good.
2 - I want to learn how to hack. Not the evil computer hacker that steals your files and money and identity type hacker. But the whitehat hacker that helps secure networks and servers and the such. I want to learn it because it forces me to learn a LOT of different aspects of computers all at once. There’s the networking aspect (like hiding your IP and redirecting internet traffic for Man in the Middle hacks and accessing files on a servers) and theres the Server Side aspect (like accessing files from hidden folders and learning SQL and PHP injection to get around things that are blocked) and theres the coding side of things (like attacks directly aimed at the OS and other software on the server to do things like buffer overflows and other cracks like that). It includes so much knowledge all in one task that I can’t possibly say no to learning it. I want to try to find someone with a network that will give me permission to try all the things I learn. I’m thinking I could setup my laptop as a server on my friend Rob’s home network (since I have Apache on my laptop already so its easiest that way) and use his computer or some other computer to try to access some files from my computer. It’d kind of be cheating because I’d already know the info location and everything on my machine but that could help because I would see how that is related to the information I find out with attacks. Plus that way I also have to learn how to hack through a router which is something I haven’t read up on yet.
Those are my two main goals right now and both are fairly huge. I’ll start to tackle them more consistently.
That’s all for now 
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