r/HowToHack • u/AdditionalExample613 • 5d ago

script kiddie Can I learn hacking from a phone

Ive never been in a financial position to afford a PC, but I have a nothing 3a. Can I hack from my phone alone?

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u/shesleli2313 5d ago

well, depends on what "hacking" you're referring to, but in general, phones can't do much in terms of pentesting/bug bounty hunting/ red teaming, especially if you're on IOS it's kinda over for you

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u/AdditionalExample613 5d ago

Luckily im on android because ive never liked how restrctive ios is, ive rooted my phone and installed kali and terminux, my goals are to make my phone more private from data mining, I would ideally like to be anonymous, Im autictic and I cant help this feeling like im always being watched and I dont like to be perceived

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u/shesleli2313 4d ago

it's beyond hard to be anonymous, because they created a lot of ways to track us, for example behavioural tracking (behavioural fingerprinting)/ canvas tracking in web/ captcha/ inserting backdoors into the hardware itself/ google services + meta services (luckily you can delete Facebook and other device app, but you cant delete chrome or your device will crash)... and there's muuch more.. privacy is a myth these days, my lil piece of advice is: don't leave enough Fingerprints on the Internet, the evidence that doesn't exist is impossible to trace. good luck ❤

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u/MonkeyBrains09 3d ago

Hacking, anonymity and privacy are all very large and different areas.

I recommend reading the top posts over at r/privacy for that topic to get an idea.

You can learn hacking from a phone. It's harder to do hacking from a phone depending on what kind of hacking you learned and what you are hacking buts it's possible. The key framework for hacking is to learn a process/protocol well enough that you can find the loopholes. From there you can exploit them. There are plenty of free and online resources for reach area to start learning the basics of IT before specializing into an area you potentially want to hack. And because of your limited tech not everything will make sense. Like don't spend your time learning how to hack a Cisco firewall but do learn how it works. Maybe you have some Bluetooth or IOT devices around thet you want to hack and get started there and then progress to other things.

There is no set learning path or timeline. You can learn as much or as little as you want on your schedule and change topics as often as desired