BH is basically very simple: it amounts to creative thinking.
And while programming helps tremendously, not all BHs are programmers. But all BHs are creative thinkers.
Every single BH technique I have seen and/or learned wouldn't exist without someone having thought outside the box.
The reason I am bringing this up is just to point out that a forum can't teach anyone creativity. A forum can't turn someone into a blackhat. A forum cannot give a step-by-step BH list that someone can follow that will turn them into something amazing. All the blackhats in this world probably wanted to be BH before they ever heard of the term, and nothing could change that. It is the nature of a person either to do things the BH way or to do things the "normal" accepted traditional mainstream way.
To digress further...you guys remember the thread on here recently where everyone was saying The Last Castle was such a cool movie? You know why people on here think its cool? Not because its a stupendous movie - it appeals to blackhats because it shows someone challenging an unjust authority and winning. I know that's a value I hold, along with probably most people on here. I'm not one to follow rules or to do thing in a traditional sense.
So anyway would I pay for a $100 a month forum? Well I have enough stuff to read these days personally. But otherwise I might join up. Still - I realize there is very little I would actually get for my $100 as far as knowledge I can use that will make me money.
Either you can think differently about problem-solving or ya can't.
Without that, all the forums in the world can't do anything for you.
I don't do exactly everything I read about on forums, but Quad's forum probably has some good technical info like smaxor suggested. But for someone to "LEARN" BH, they need to just do what they do. They either are or aren't. (And BTW I've been a "blackhat" since I was a kid running a BBS in the early 90s. We just didn't call it "blackhat" back then....
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And while programming helps tremendously, not all BHs are programmers. But all BHs are creative thinkers.
Every single BH technique I have seen and/or learned wouldn't exist without someone having thought outside the box.
The reason I am bringing this up is just to point out that a forum can't teach anyone creativity. A forum can't turn someone into a blackhat. A forum cannot give a step-by-step BH list that someone can follow that will turn them into something amazing. All the blackhats in this world probably wanted to be BH before they ever heard of the term, and nothing could change that. It is the nature of a person either to do things the BH way or to do things the "normal" accepted traditional mainstream way.
To digress further...you guys remember the thread on here recently where everyone was saying The Last Castle was such a cool movie? You know why people on here think its cool? Not because its a stupendous movie - it appeals to blackhats because it shows someone challenging an unjust authority and winning. I know that's a value I hold, along with probably most people on here. I'm not one to follow rules or to do thing in a traditional sense.
So anyway would I pay for a $100 a month forum? Well I have enough stuff to read these days personally. But otherwise I might join up. Still - I realize there is very little I would actually get for my $100 as far as knowledge I can use that will make me money.
Either you can think differently about problem-solving or ya can't.
Without that, all the forums in the world can't do anything for you.
I don't do exactly everything I read about on forums, but Quad's forum probably has some good technical info like smaxor suggested. But for someone to "LEARN" BH, they need to just do what they do. They either are or aren't. (And BTW I've been a "blackhat" since I was a kid running a BBS in the early 90s. We just didn't call it "blackhat" back then....
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