(August 30, 2016 at 2:59 pm)RobertE Wrote:(August 30, 2016 at 2:50 pm)wolf39us Wrote: Oh yes. I spent my teens and early 20's having some good ole fashion fun with Red Hat / Backtrack Linux. Taking down networks, redirecting packets / images. Capturing passwords, bypassing SSL with certs. Before anyone jumps on that stuff, I didn't do it maliciously and reversed everything I did to mess with friends and family lol
A script kiddie then.
Had to learn quite a bit. It's not like I just loaded an exe and hit "start" :-)
But yes many would consider that to be "script kiddie" status. I've taught myself quite a bit more beyond just playing with that stuff.
Just playing with that stuff in Linux forced me to learn a lot about the OS (since it wasn't familiar to me at the time).
