What is the need for learning to hack?Is it crime?

Its truly useful and needful to learn how hacking works in order to prevent these attacks.An ethical hacker need to know everything in hacking just as a black hat hacker in order to outrun them and find the exploits before the black hats finds it and cause too much damage.
This is just like our military is trained in arms to prevent the terrorists from attacking us!
This is why we say learning to hack is not unethical but using it for any bad purpose is unethical and that is the real crime.This is the reason why we still get every kind of tutorials and help related to hacking .So its not a crime to learn hacking unless your intentions are unethical.

There is term difference for ethical hacker and black hats ,white hat hackers or ethical hackers are really called hackers while black hats are called crackers.Now a days people find it hard to differentiate and hence are using the term hacker for all.

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Hack This Site Basic 10

Please enter a password to gain access to level 10 Only this much is written as hint.What we should do? I have tried reading the source code and there is no hint how the password is validated.So,we have no other way than intercepting the data.Once we enter the password and hit submit the password along with some request is sent to the server by the browser.There can be very vital information in this request.What we do is intercept this request before it is sent to the server.For this we use "Burp Suit" or some extensions for tampering data.For chrome and firefox,we have tamper data addon.Iam using chrome add on: Tamper Chrome HOW TO USE IT? *Right click somewhere and select inspect. *Now select the three arrows pointing right on top right corner. *Now select Tamper from it(make sure you have added the extension in chrome). *Now input some password in out mission or leave it empty and hit submit. *You will see a new tab with the request det

Hack This Site Basic 6

Network Security Sam has encrypted his password. The encryption system is publically available and can be accessed with this form: There we have been given with the same encryptor used by Sam .There is no other choice in my mind than guessing the password with the help of this encryptor. We have Sam's encrypted password already :3ff8;j<9 >Now we need to find by giving which value we get the output as 3. >when i given 'a' my output was 'a',which means no change. >So,I tried giving '3' and as expected, answer was 3. >So i pushed my luck and tried '3f',the first two letters,in encryptor ,Output was '3g' this was clearly giving us hint.first letter has no change,second letter change by one alphabet or letter ,clearly from 'abcdefg' >with this in mind iam giving input for encryption as '3ed',Huraaah!, it was successful and given output as '3ff'. >now its easy to break down ...

Hack This Site Basic 8

Sam remains confident that an obscured password file is still the best idea, but he screwed up with the calendar program. Sam has saved the unencrypted password file in /var/www/hackthissite.org/html/missions/basic/8/ However, Sam's young daughter Stephanie has just learned to program in PHP. She's talented for her age, but she knows nothing about security. She recently learned about saving files, and she wrote a script to demonstrate her ability. So, we know the password is stored in some obscured password file. Lets try the same code as we did in level 7. But the code 'ls' is not treated as command. so lets try it differently. Try with aaa; it also failed but got a message: If you are trying to use server side includes to solve the challenge, you are on the right track: but I have limited the commands allowed to ones relevant towards finding the password file for security reasons(because there will always be that one person who decides to

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