About three months ago I was almost positive that I was just one step under elite hacker like in the movies. Someone taught me how to download torrents off of H33t and junkie and clamed them as my own. Yes, my dumb ass looked like a cool cyber punk hacker to my friends that didn’t have the computer genius like I did. 
     The funny thing about acting like a douchebag and not knowing it is that someone else always will. After doing my banking online one day I realized that something was wrong with my computer but I couldn’t put my finger on it. I had control over my computer but at the same time I didn’t??? Yep, believe it or not a REAL HACKER took control over my whole system and blocked me out of everything even changed all my passwords and went on my Facebook. The hacker elite got hacked himself. Oh, I forgot to tell you the most embarrassing part about my story, I’m 27 years old.
     Instead of being embarrassed for being taught a lesson I started getting scared and a little paranoid….. OK a lot of paranoia… Look at all the banking I do online including EBay, PayPal and everything else I have on there. So for the past three months I have been trying to learn as much as can about everything……. I had no clue that my computer skills that I thought I had was a complete joke and school is way too expensive for me to afford now.  Then I find this site, filled with people who do possess the knowledge for real and use it to protect the unprotected. Some of my fears have lifted but will never go away.
     My goal now is to teach myself the best I can using the internet and hopefully some of you. When I start to understand some of the basics I want to start a website as a side project with everything I learn being added as I go. I haven’t fully thought this idea out yet but it will come together. I bought a few books from barns and noble the other day called The Networking Bible, Hacking for Dummies, and Visual Basic. I don’t know if this is a good place to start or not. Knowledge is understandably expensive but I think it needs to be given to everyone who wants it.     

Thank you for being the first person to make contact with me here. I hope you’re the first of many friendly people I meet and learn from here. If you were in my shoes and had no clue what direction to go where would you start?? I don’t know if I want to make money focused on a career with any new knowledge. But I want to know all I can in every language a computer speaks. Lol Man I fell like a kid again, learning how to ride my bike better so I can play with the big kids.

Welcome to EHN Tekno, I'm sure we can help quench your thirst for knowledge

Just begin to read all the post in this fourm and you will know a lot where to begin

Another good way to learn is to build yourself a computer lab. One machine with VMs will do just fine.