Is hacking real in the 21st century?

Question

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Good day to all. If you surf the dark web, you can find people who hack and offer to teach hacking for a substantial amount of money.
What do you think, can it be learned? Or the knowledge that you will acquire even for money will not help and the bugs will be fixed in the next update. What worthy literature to esteem on this subject?

Answer 1

With a probability of 99.(9)% on the darknet for money, they may not learn how to hack, but get information about vulnerabilities that have not yet been closed.
It is precisely to learn how to be a hacker that you can only do it yourself, and only if your brain is turned to it correctly. This is not even the level of intelligence, although there are some boundaries here, the point is that a person should be able to engage in a very strange and boring activity, shovel tons of information that is not applicable more than completely in ordinary life and work, and most importantly understand why all this. i.e. you need to be a little bit of a developer of all the software that you hack in order to understand where holes can be.
p.s. of course, you can collect ready-made utilities charged with specific vulnerabilities and use them without much understanding of how it works, but being called a hacker is a bit of a pity.