How am i supposed toblearn hacking when everyone is gatekeeping everything??

[u/PresentationBusy8580]

You ask about credential hunting and osint skills, people accuse you of doxxing. You try to learn network and traffic analysis, people accuse you of packet sniffing. You try to learn social engineering, people accuse you of spear phishing. I swear to i was asking an ai assistant about me trying to learn coding and he warned me about malware deployment. Dude, i am pissed off.

[u/Yhelisi]

Attempt some Htb machines? Start with easy ones or go for challenges on the platform. Gather and read up on all the technical details like we did back in the day with hackforums, leakforums, irc. You guys have it even easier these days with LLM's and a huge amount of resources on youtube.. projects on github. Man the world of knowledge is endless.

Get your OSCP and OSEE once you progress through platforms like htb and picoctf, tryhackme etc and you'll have a good chance in the job market.

[u/Soft_Island_3296 → u/Yhelisi]

Depends what you are wanting to do. There are so many different topics. You need to pick something that you are interested in, then become an expert at that specific thing. Then move on to the next topic or skill. Your questions in the post are so broad that of course you aren’t getting any good answers. I could spend months training someone on osint alone.

[u/Quirky_Snow5384]

If you get any answers will you fill me in. I’m interested as well

[u/PresentationBusy8580 → u/Quirky_Snow5384]

Sure thing man, i will post that on a couple more subs and ima hit you up

[u/Otherwise_Wave9374]

The frustration makes sense, but the useful boundary is intent and scope, not the labels people throw at you. If you want to learn traffic analysis or OSINT safely, anchor each exercise to a legal lab target and write down what evidence you are collecting before you start. That keeps the work reproducible and lowers the chance of drifting into misuse. A simple checklist, review step, and sandbox-only habit will make the learning curve much less noisy. AIOSNOW shares practical patterns for that at https://aiosnow.com

[u/Emotional-Run9144]

You're gonna have to use online teaching resources like THM or HTB in combination with things like code academy for coding and various books.

In terms of asking an AI you need ti frame the question in a way that doesnt sound malicious. I recommend installing an AI locally on your computer, unrestricted would be preferable because then you can ask it questions without filtering yourself

[u/Emotional-Run9144 → u/Emotional-Run9144]

what i mean by malicious is that even if you tell an ai it's for pentest studies
it doesnt care it's been trained to flag all pentesr related things as malicious doesnt matter if you tell it it isnt.

[u/Necessary_Two_9669]

There is literally no positive way to use social engineering. If you come here asking for that, you will rightly be accused of doing something wrong.

[u/DemandOk9978 → u/Necessary_Two_9669]

Learning the ins and outs of social engineering directly correlates with being able to defend yourself against it. So no you’re completely wrong.

[u/Necessary_Two_9669 → u/DemandOk9978]

Learning <> doing

[u/DemandOk9978 → u/Necessary_Two_9669]

Who said anything about doing it besides you?

[u/Cipher-Wrecker]

Sadly, I learned more about hacking from using Google AI. It has less restrictions that other popular LLM's like ChatGPT. Learning how hackers hack is what helped me learn more about how th process works and to educate (in simple terms) how easy it can be to decieve someone into clicking a phishing link.

One reason I think the community gatekeeps everything is because there are far more people that would abuse that knowledge. Another reason could be that if someone is found teaching others how to hack, there are severe legal consequences if caught.