cwade12c, how I started hacking, and how to get into hacking easily - Deep Dot Darknet

In this episode of Deep Dot Darknet I am answering wack mane's question about how I got into hacking at first, and if I think a college degree is necessary to be a leet or excellent hacker. In this video I will be talking about my oldest friend, and closest friend, the one who originally got me into hackng.

We will also be talking about how to get into hacking in a legal and ethical way - that does not involve you spending bucket loads of money on some self-proclaimed expert.

Because I don't operate with a script and I simply answer the question as asked sometimes I tend to go out of scope. I think I did a bit of that in this, for that I apologize.


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00:00 Introduction
00:03 Wack Mane's question
00:21 My answer
00:45 Hack this site - Mission 1
02:33 cwade12c and youtube
03:17 haxme aka exn aka exploit nation
04:36 3 year check
06:55 college for hackers
09:23 Learn how to hack for free, and hands on
11:13 Conclusion

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In "Deep Dot Darknet " I do my best to answer the questions that you have given me be it on email, social media, or here on youtube. Most of the time these questions are in regards to the Darknet, hacking, particulars of being a darknet vendor or other InfoSec or OpSec related questions.

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[cwadec]

Hey, I appreciate your kind words! Thank you. I hope to see you out here at my wedding 😎I definitely agree with you that college isn't a pre-req to become an excellent hacker. Hacking is a mindset and a culture, in my opinion. You can use a degree in computer science or exposure to networking and security to become more informed, which will help! And I do know people who have infosec careers who started with a college background. But ultimately, learning how to learn and satisfy the hunger of curiosity will take one very far IMO. Great video, Sam!

[toddzillaswrist]

Totally agree brother! Hacking is a mindset, whether you are breaking into systems or improving your toys. it's just about curiosity and being persistent. I work with so many people who have degrees who cannot come close to me, and I am no Einstein. It's simply because I am curious and I put in the work.

[Sergioelg]

awesome video, dude thats on thing no one talk about and its gone from youtube "private messaging through youtube". you could write to content creators and let them know how awesome they are which i did. keep these coming man

[bandx]

It's awesome to see you mention social engineering as one of your favorites. I've been a fan of hacking and psychology for a long time, and SE bridges that gap. It's fascinating that one of the biggest weaknesses in security is humans.

[mosalahgoat-tp]

GREAT VIDEO also thanks for answering my question sorry I missed the past couple videos I'm subbed with the bell on yet YouTube stopped showing me your videos thank god I knew your channel name

[loc]

I did the University part kinda backwards; I went to work first and then did University much like someone might do a professional certification. And I can tell you this: it wasn't difficult to see why graduates at least in computer science are generally not great.

The course was contrived, shallow with lots of holes but worse of all it didn't really instill the skills needed to independently identify, understand and solve real world problems. In my experience it's rare that as a professional (as opposed to technician) you'll encounter clear cut problems with equally textbook solutions. Yes, there are lots of common problems with default solutions but, and particularly in security, at higher levels some deep understanding and thinking is involved.

[mosalahgoat-tp]

social engineering is truly something that needs to be more mainstream people truly don't understand most hacks happen because of humans we make a lot more mistakes then computers

[pudelz]

College teaches one what to think but not how... In my experience, college is only good to open doors but doesn't do anything for skills, that only comes from passion.

[wackmane]

Thank you so much for answering my question! ❤

[mikehoney]

hey man i got a question for you, maybe u can answer it in another video: when you plead guilty, did you have to forfiet the passwords to your hard drives / wallets (if they were encrypted), if so or not, how did this impact your judgement? as in like, if u did did it nullify some of your court costs like it did for silk roads ross, or tack on more forfieture because they couldnt recover all of the profits? ik this is a long winded question but i was just curious abt it

[navigator]

I got a fascination for hacking and IT for the same reason you mentioned; wanting revenge. I actually got hacked by a "friend".
Anyway this video was inspiring thank you.

[nothinghere]

Great vid as always. I noticed that you seem to have gotten your start in the darknet and hacking worlds the same way - by joining a forum community and being and useful and prolific member. Can you talk about how you do this when you're just starting out and presumably don't know much yet>

[jgold]

The issue with college programs is that the level of useful education is solely based on the professors teaching in the program.

[nerox]

I also got a similar system with my „friends“ it’s the best thing you can do

[irae]

@9:00 - Pretty much. The problem is that teachers get paid peanuts, cuz they are not valued in our society. The result is that people who are actually good at some specialized skill are going to just get a job doing that, as they will get much more that way. The ones who were not good enough to consistently get those jobs are the ones who end up teaching it.

There's also a larger problem with formal education - pretty much what you described, with the high emphasis on memorizing the textbook instead of actually teaching real world application. The thing is, the way that our public school systems are designed is authoritarian - forcing kids to just sit at their desks and listen to a teacher lecture them, and just swallow whatever "information" they say, which they promise that you'll need later. Very little interaction with the kids, and sometimes even their questions get shut down, with "we don't have time for that". They very effectively make kids hate learning, and work to destroy even their natural curiosity and their motivation - which is by design...because public schools are funded by govt people who only care about staying in office; it's about turning kids into the perfect subjects, not actually teaching or otherwise helping them. It gets better at college level, because colleges are in the private sector - there ARE some good colleges/classes out there; but you still get a lot of emphasis on theory/memorize the textbook instead of application/learning, because of how badly that's ingrained into our school culture/systems. The result is a disservice to all.

[headlights-go-up]

So one thing I will disagree on is about teachers and ‘those that can’t do, teach’. This may be true for grade school, but isn’t true for college professors.

To teach at a college you need a PhD. To get a PhD you don’t only have the typical class work, but the thesis you have to complete to earn the PhD is years and years of actual work that needs to be original and then published.

Then when you actually get the job, to keep the job, outside of any teaching, you need to continue to do original work and research, because you’re required to publish each year to show you can still do the work yourself.

So while the students taking the class just have to regurgitate whatever they’re told to, the professors teaching have to constantly put out new, original work in order to keep their jobs.

[commanderphantom]

Not sure if you'll see this comment...but, what do you remember about Operation Logjam? How did that affect what you were doing at the time, and did you have to cut contact with people for OpSec purposes?

[nexusyang]

Sometimes, hacking isn't targeting software or hardware. Sometimes it's about targeting people. Why spend time trying to break encryption when it is much easier to break people. Look at his cousin. The feds figured it was easier break a person with prison time and whether or not the technique was legal, it results speaks for themselves. :/

[lukasethan]

That website is also how I initially learned to hack. I also learned from a game that I’m pirated off the Internet and put on my Mac.

I also have the philosophy that if you can bypass a lock, so the speed, then that is the most efficient way as tying you up inside the lock to proceed is inefficient. Not saying that is the case it just is from my perspective.


I learned a set of skills to steal a line from a movie, when I did the secret squirrel stuff in the army in Iraq. That’s where I saw Google Earth and maps three years before it took place on Google. Google was actually something we could use to pull up Intel and not available to the public. Learning how to hack, was part of the skills that I wanted as I wanted to join the agency . Or an agency so black the name is never been publicly told. In the end are used these skills for both good and bad, but I think the best outcome from is it change my mentality and perception of the world. I have gravitated away from the thinking I had 16 years ago which I can’t believe it. I used to feel that way. I’ve taught these skills to my sons. And the most important lesson I have taught my sons is seek truth. Don’t ever trust anything face value. Just my two. Cents.

[AnonmaskedShaker]

It's my first time watching you and I don't know how I came across your channel only I can say is thank you for your existence. I'll send you an email