The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing

Acknowledgments

Like most people, I have a list. The list is made up of life goals and dreams—things I would like to accomplish at some point in my life. Some of the items on the list are big, some small, some well-defined, stable, and concrete, whereas others are more transient and ambiguous—like early morning fog on the Lutsen Mountains, constantly changing and moving, sometimes even disappearing altogether only to reappear at a later date and time. Obviously, the list is not a stone tablet; it changes and updates as I move through life. A few things, however, have never moved off the list; they stand as the Mount Rushmore’s in my life. Hundreds of feet high, carved into solid granite. Never changing. Always there. They gracefully weather the ...