Chapter 1: Cyber World and Ethical Hacking — The Legal Crime I Didn’t Sign Up For
Okay bro listen.
This ethical hacking thing?
I didn’t choose this life.
This life lowkey kidnapped me.
So it all started when I joined this course called “Cyber World & Ethical Hacking” thinking it’s gonna be some cool Hollywood-level Matrix hacker type fun. Tum samajh rahe ho na? Fast typing, black hoodie, green code raining down — “I am in.” Waisa sab kuch.
Bhai, first week mein hi mere sapne 404 ho gaye.
Like… one minute I was watching YouTube videos about hackers stealing Bitcoin, next minute I was stuck staring at a terminal saying “Permission Denied.”
I swear, I almost cried. Not even joking.
The Internet Is a Jungle. And We’re All Stupidly Naked.
Pehli class mein jab professor bola “the internet is not safe” — I laughed.
Mujhe laga banda exaggerate kar raha. Phir usne stats dikhaye. Real hacks. Real breaches. Real logon ka paisa chori ho gaya, lives ruin ho gaye — and poora system chup.
Like, tum soch rahe ho ke Gmail safe hai? Bhai koi bhi 14 saal ka nerd Wi-Fi sniffing se tumhari saari emails dekh sakta hai agar tumne Starbucks ke Wi-Fi se login kiya ho. Scary part? You won’t even know.
Main toh bas yeh samajhne gaya tha ke “hacking kya hoti hai.”
Par andar ghuske laga ke bro, sab kuch hack ho raha hai — including my mental health.
Good Hackers Exist. But They Still Scare Me.
So turns out, not all hackers are bad.
Like there’s a whole spectrum:
- Black Hat = proper criminal, digital chor.
- White Hat = ethical hacker, corporate ka rakhwala.
- Gray Hat = confused banda, kabhi help karta hai, kabhi havoc machata hai.
When I first read about white hats, I was like — “Wow, hackers working for the good side. That’s dope.” But then the coursework started and bro… mujhe toh good side bhi evil lagne laga.
Because even the legal stuff? It’s invasive af.
Matlab, tum kisi ki website pe flaws dhoond rahe ho, ports scan kar rahe ho, login systems test kar rahe ho — and technically, you’re doing it for protection. But inside? It still feels creepy.
Like imagine kisi ke ghar ke gate ka lock check karte karte andar bhi ghus gaye ho, and phir bolo — “Don’t worry. I’m here to help.”
It’s weird. Cool. But weird.
My First Assignment? Flop Show.
Professor ne poocha: “Define ethical hacking in your own words.”
Mujhe laga: easy. Likh diya:
“Ethical hacking is hacking… but like, legally… and for good purpose.”
Grade: F
Comment: “Please study. This isn’t a joke.”
Bhai, I stared at that screen like — meri maa ko kya bolun ab main?
That night I stayed up till 3am watching videos of Indian and Pakistani ethical hackers trying to explain TCP/IP. Half the time I was understanding… the other half I was wondering if I should just become a chaiwala instead.
At least chai doesn’t require port scanning.
This World Is Made of Ports, Packets, and Pain.
Bhai, jab tak tum ethical hacking ka actual system samajhte ho — tab tak tumhara patience delete ho chuka hota hai.
TCP/IP? Firewalls? IDS vs IPS? DNS spoofing?
Main toh pehle sochta tha domain name likho, website khul jati hai.
Now I know ke beech mein 27 servers, 15 handshake protocols, aur ek hacker ka laptop bhi ghusa hota hai.
And sniffing? Bro, pehle sochta tha yeh sirf dogs karte hain.
Ab mujhe pata hai Wireshark se tum poori network traffic sniff kar sakte ho.
Ek baar maine WiFi sniffing ki practice ki — apne ghar mein.
Accidentally saw my own Netflix password in plain text. I was like, “Damn. I am the danger.”
Tools Feel Like Guns in the Hands of Monkeys.
Yeh sab tools — Nmap, Wireshark, Hydra, Burp Suite — bhai inki power dekhke toh insaan hil jaata hai.
Pehle toh confidence aata hai. Like:
“Yes. I am hacker now. I will scan all the things.”
Phir error aata hai:
segmentation fault: core dumpedinvalid syntaxpermission denied
Aur tab realize hota hai ke yeh sab power mere hath mein gun deke keh rahi hai — “Acha beta, chala ke dikhao.”
Once I ran Hydra for brute-force login — meri hi WordPress site pe, just to test. Bro it locked me out.
My own site. My own tool. My own pain.
Like stabbing yourself and bleeding while holding the knife like “I did this to myself.”
Why Didn’t Anyone Warn Us Earlier??
This one still haunts me.
Bro, we live online. Hum passwords save karte hain browser mein jaise kisi ko kabhi chori nahi karna.
Hum free WiFi pe videos stream karte hain like data doesn’t have value.
Hum same password har jagah use karte hain jaise hacker ke paas bhi memory limited hai.
Nobody teaches us cyber ethics growing up.
Mujhe kabhi school mein nahi bataya gaya ke phishing email kya hota hai.
Ya VPN kyun important hota hai.
Ya password manager kya hota hai.
Instead, mujhe Microsoft Paint sikhaya gaya. Waah. Thanks, system.
Once You Know, You Can’t Un-Know.
Bhai, once this world opened up, I couldn’t look at the internet the same way again.
Tum ek website kholte ho aur sochte ho — “Hmmm, ispe SQL injection ho sakta hai kya?”
Tum WiFi connect karte ho aur dimaag mein chal raha hota hai — “Is this WPA2 or open network?”
Tum login karte ho aur sochte ho — “Kya yeh form encrypted hai?”
It’s like tumhara innocent internet-experience mar gaya.
And jo reborn hua, wo paranoid hacker hai jo har form mein trap dhoond raha hai.
Anyway. This Got Deep. Like Real Deep.
Main toh bas “ethical hacking seekhne chala tha.”
Ab lagta hai main virtual duniya ka psych ward explore kar raha hoon.
But I’ll say this: it’s worth it.
Once you get through the initial pain, confusion, and breakdowns — this world feels like a secret superpower.
Because hackers don’t see the internet the way we do.
They see flaws. Loopholes. Weak spots. And ethical hackers? They fix them before someone else breaks them.
That’s gangster. That’s real.
Next Chapter? Kali Linux. Aka the OS that slapped me, bullied me, and taught me more in one week than four years of school.
Good luck if you’re diving in too. Take snacks. Keep chai warm. You’re gonna need both.
Chalo. 3:27am. Light off kar raha hoon.
Terminal band nahi karunga. Never know when curiosity attacks again.
