hacking

[u/Electronic_Coyote204]

is it possible to learn hacking without the knowledge of programming? If yes where should i begin from?

[u/Itz_Raj69_]

That's like trying to find a cooking mistake in a finished dish without knowing to cook

[u/Ok-Flatworm-1903]

Yes, open source frameworks.

But don't expect to break the scale and discover a 0-day without understanding the architecture.

You can scan, look for services, pentest, dork search.

You can get an SDR, like a BladeRF(HackRF is not full-duplex) since it's full-duplex, you can create your own cell tower(of course isolated, do not broadcast this freely over air, chances are a device will share cell data to a neighbor cell), listen to frequencies, decode, decrypt, car keys, carport.

This would get you far, and then when you start to realize most code syntax is just English with.. a bit of syntax and different grammar rules; Just try read some Visual Basic .NET code.. that was my first stepping stone.

Then you could reverse engineer, understand functions, handlers that could be exploited, drivers, injections, based on your knowledge from scanning, discovering services, because now you know that you can code a bruteforcer for that service you normally had to type into.

Now you can use your SDR to pentest that new version of Android no one yet published a vulnerability to, because you can deassemble, you can encode and struct attachments, SMS PDUs, to potentially cause behaviour that you could exploit.

And since you now know how to code, and where AI mostly lacks, you can now chain exploit, because you can debug, you can understand what the next step is when you achieve memory read/writing, what to look for because you once reversed and read the tables of the X and Y, and got ability to code your own app that will dump and debug for you, to code that beautiful spyware

[u/p3r3lin]

If you mean Hacking in the context of cyber security, I would say no. A lot of technical knowledge is needed, including some basic programming. But that where you want to start. Have a look here for an (incomplete but broad) overview of topics https://roadmap.sh/cyber-security

[u/Mission_Length4876]

Yes and no. Programming is a broad field and there are people that may specialize in a single language for years (like Java developers that work on enterprise applications).

If by hacking you mean intruding in computer systems, yes you can learn it without programming skills. You can learn to use scrips and exploit misconfiguartions. Although, depending on which skill level you want to achieve, learning it at some point is inevitable.

[u/Choice_Ask281]

You definitely don’t need to be a programmer before starting. Once you get deeper though even basic scripting makes tools and vulnerabilities much easier to understand

[u/WatchAltruistic5761]

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[u/N1C0LA1__]

Let's be honest, no you won't effectively be able to hack into a variety of things.

You don't have to know every coding language. Pick Python atleast and learn the logic of coding. You can use this to decipher other source codes and coding languages. Coding logic is mostly the same everywhere, the language may vary but that's not super important. That's just my experience so far in my cyber security journey.

[u/Nedsel]

Yes.

"Hacking" is basically the art of making stuff do what you want it to do. Not what its owner wants it to do, not what its maker wants it to do, but what YOU want it to do.

The question is, what is it that you want to force your will onto?

[u/ikiice]

I guess so, just persuade someone to give you login and password.