Sarthak Agrawal

Ethical Hacker & Cyber Security Enthusiast

[lifeashacker]

Hacking : Common Outlook

Greetings Everyone, I know you have been waiting for the second post so eagerly and hence I decided to write this post for those who are so excited about knowing the real meaning of the word " HACKING ". This post is about the misconceptions among the people who do not belong to the computer background and need to know where they are actually thinking wrong.

When I ask people about their thoughts related to Hacking, most of them start with the word hacker! like so,

"All the things Hackers do..!!"

or something like :

"When Hackers steal something from somewhere using the computer, it is called Hacking!!"

and blah.. blah.. blah.. , which you already know, And I am like "That's what I asked ..!! Who is a Hacker??" What I mean to say is that people think Hacking is some kind of a crime executed on a computer system, and that is how they define a hacker too. Yes, you can say hacking is some form of breaking a law, but what everyone should remember is that..

"There are always two sides of a coin..."

When someone engages in a crime on a computer system or on the internet, (Yes, you can hack without using the internet. ) people name it Hacking, that's completely fine. But, the reverse, it may not be true. How ??

"That's because not every hacker is a criminal"

&

"It's not at all limited to Computers"

WHAT...!! (O_O)(O_O)(O_O) Well keep Thinking about that, I will surely return with more amazing facts about Hacking. I assure you.. we are getting closer to the real definition of Hacking!! Keep reading and commenting. - Sarthak Agrawal

[lifeashacker]

CHOOSING YOUR CAREER AS A HACKER IN INDIA

Hello Everyone, This is my first blog as a student. I am Sarthak Agrawal pursuing graduation in Computer Science & Engineering. I am really glad to have started writing this blog after great “motivational speeches” from seniors and the alumni of my college. For really long I couldn’t find something interesting to write about, but then I thought about it more selfishly and decided to write about the most exciting part of my life, that is – Hacking. Anyways, I will now skip the boring part and come on to what I actually wanted to write about, but most of it would relate to my real life experiences which I wish to talk about to the world…, or basically you.. :) So, this post relates to the moments in my life when I chose to have “HACKING” as my career for the future. I was sitting with my friends when we were just talking, and I told them about my career preferences for the future. I thought they would surely comment on it – as all friends do (no offense) – but instead they burst out laughing loudly!! At first I thought they were just trying to tease me, but later I found out they actually didn’t know someone could choose something like that for their career. I am really thankful to god for giving me parents who are so understanding, but still there are people who don’t think this can actually happen and hacking could be taken seriously. My parents at first were a little reluctant too to have me chosen it as my career. They had some faith that I would someday leave being in fantasy but it took me some time to explain them Hacking could be taken as serious as IIT-JEE for engineering, CAT for management and CA/CS for company strategies. The problem is not actually to have such a different thinking about the career choices, but in a country like India, where people do hacking all their lives and never know they have actually done something like that, fact is they don’t know the exact meaning of that word. Specially the people who had been away from technologies most of their life, reading newspapers or watching news on the TV, when hear about the victims of hacking, in reality have constrained their minds to a really narrow area of choices, fearing their surroundings and living in their own worlds of old & gold happiness. But, the time has come when the world knows about the terms “Ethical Hacking” & “Penetration Testing” or “Cyber Security” while we don’t practically require them. Hope you like the post. Keep making people around you aware of what hacking actually is. Please leave replies, it would really cheer me up to keep writing my blogs. Soon, I am going to actually blog about tools & techniques for hacking. Keep checking… Bye… Regards, Sarthak