Quote Originally Posted by ArcanumNoctis
Though it has a stigma, hacking isn't bad.
Thank you for being intelligently aware of that fact. So many people are so afraid of the very term they simply define it by its connotations. You, however, know better.

Learn about the ethics. Black/white-hat hackers, the manifesto. I know little to nothing about the act of hacking, but I've read a little on the ethics of it. All I can say is I wish you luck on your endeavour - sometimes it takes this kind of knowledge to protect yourself. I had to do some hacker-ish things to un-hijack my computer when it was attacked by trojans/adware/rogues back before I found DV. That knowledge is invaluable to me.

Actually, thanks to that little reminder that I have touched a little bit of hacker-ish activity, I'll say this: learn some Windows Command Prompt commands. Those do come in handy now and then. Other than that, look into Linux.