Help, please.

Not that I'm exactly of godlike hacking proportions, but these are obvious to me.... patience, persistance, obsessiveness, curiousity also, there's no such thing as a dumb question, but it's not terribly difficult to ask questions in the wrong place and,thereby, waste other people's time and piss them off. Your question isn't terribly appropriate to the cypherpunks list and it's so amazingly general that you won't get anything but a general answer. the most important thing about being a hacker is working with other hackers. Despite common misperceptions, hacking is a social thing. stig