How the Best Hackers Learn Their Craft

To quote the infamous Rick Flair, “to be the best you gotta beat the best.”

This is no clickbait, this is real knowledge

Main thing is enjoying writing that first program and then stretching always to see how much more you can make it do and how beautifully. Having math intuition and sense of what is elegant helps. I think you can hone that over time.

He even handled that hack diversity question like a boss

This talk is great. It's ideas are easily transferrable throughout your entire life not just hacking

The first Teacher that understand what learning means

I want to learn

Half way through the video, I absolutely agree. The best teachers and professors i've had regarding IT skills, understood that they didn't have all the answers, and allowed for creativity. The worst ones though not only made it really obvious that I knew more than them, but would only take a really specific, often unoptimal answer. and wouldn't try to understand or accept any others. Like, really? you're not even going to try and step through the logic? or ask me to explain it? And absolutely, I've had amazing teachers and professors, who also clearly knew less about a subject than I did, but they accepted that and like you said, found areas an topics for me to explore. Many of them also encouraged me to help others -probably partly to reduce their own workload- but also inevitably when helping, I would get a question I didn't know the answer to, so I needed to either experiment, or research more, deepening my own understanding too. I always wanted to take a trip to defcon, when coronavirus is over, definitely going to try and plan my next trip to vegas for that. interesting you have that high school challenge pico ctf, I'll dig around . definitely sounds like something I would have loved to have when I was in highschool.

I think it's about finding your passion, once you find it as soon as possible you can spend all your life on it without any doubts about what to do and when, but the path itself is another environmental problem because if you don't have an initial incentive at least it will be very hard you to proceed with discipline.

You're suppose to know binary analysis, web vulnerabilities, and common algorithm math before you go to one. If you go there just knowing how to use Kali tools you won't make it past one challenge

A great video! Also there's an error at 19:45 with the line 1.75+1.5+0.25 which equals 3.5 rather than 4.

great talk and also if you don't know much and get excited from doing ctf's . Don't stop. You'll see how much you're learning and also the last question about being biased because of CM students. I'll say this there's always going to be someone better. So don't feel discouraged and always try something new.

What about middle aged people looking for new careers? Would this be a good start for someone without CS experience? What about a CS grad that's worked in non-programming, non-hacking jobs looking to get into much more technical work. Is this a good place to start?

Brilliant iron sharpens iron

"once you learned basic arithmetic you learned trigonometry" who?!?!!?

Error in slide at 19:35, 2nd from last line (9/4) is 2.25, not 1.75

I don't get it: shouldn't the name of the video be 'how to recruit geniuses'? This is a genuine question. Did I miss anything?

1:05 i thought he was gonna say this video is sponsored by nordvpn

Very interesting talk, always been interested in it

Inspirational.