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Can we ask hacking related question?

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Hacking tools are execute from terminal. While Powerusers is for OS's Q&A. Some sample of Linux system's question is included below :

  • How to turn on night light in terminal?
  • How to create users in terminal?
  • Why wireless isn't showing?

Actually, in this site users can ask how to use the tool from command line. And, hacking tools are used from terminal also. So, can we ask following types of question?

  • Which Facebook BruteForcer work in "Kali/Terminal"? (I have tried "this command" and, this is returning following error.)
  • I was trying to use sqlmap but, I am having this kind of problem and this

Sorry! I am not actually using Kali or any kind of Pen-testing OS that's why I couldn't add more related question here.

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(My opinion, not as staff) I'd say that terminal software is on-topic here. You don't have to be a developer to use a terminal. Think of things like ffmpeg — not developer-oriented, just a generally useful package, but also pretty confusing for a new user. Questions about things like that seem perfectly reasonable for this site.

(Now as staff) For obvious reasons, questions about any kind of illegal or legally-questionable activity — including "how do I hack this site" — are explicitly off-topic anywhere on the network, and are subject to immediate deletion.

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manassehkatz‭ wrote over 3 years ago

Key is distinguishing between "hack" as "advanced programming and system usage" vs. "hack" as "illegal manipulation of a computer". In Team Programming class (~ 35 years ago) I named my team (Team H by default) the Happy Hackers.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 3 years ago

Context is important. There are legitimate reasons to use WireShark in your own test lab for debugging, but using it on someone else's machines/network would be a problem. If you're asking about a sketchy tool, I think it'd be wise to be very explicit about how you're using it.

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