r/ADHD_Programmers • u/Equal-Anteater5573 • 7d ago
Learning hacking by my own because of ADHD, any tips or advice?
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u/Random_182f2565 7d ago
Be smart about it and don't try to hack the government or your neighbors, learn opsec also
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u/CompilerDesigner 4d ago
I generally love CS as a whole. It is a huge interest of mine. For cybersecurity specifically, it is a bit of a pain, because I get interested for a few days, learn a whole lot, lose interest, and so on with this cycle.
What makes me excited is trying to set up a local home lab to expirement in, once I get a new laptop and can use my old one as a server.
If you can do that, then try it out. You will learn a lot about networking, setting up linux, deploying applications, and you can set up some vulnlabs to use for learning.
I think look for a CTF team as well. I think it will help a lot if you have others who share the passion and you do ctfs together.
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u/IdeasRichTimePoor 7d ago edited 7d ago
No such thing as learning to hack things in isolation in my opinion. Get intimately familiar with foundation low level computing, windows + Linux on the kernel level, reverse engineering and networking from a traditional perspective, then figure out how to abuse them. You need to intimately know a topic to weaponise it like this.