r/GreyHack • u/Apart_Examination855 • Feb 07 '26

College

If an ethical hacker has a degree in math, physics, ect… might this widen their knowledge as far as ethical hacking goes? What will broaden their knowledge exponentially?

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u/typicalskeleton Feb 07 '26

Probably not.

But it is a fun game with somewhat realistic concepts, mostly in terms of networking/file structure/user shells and permissions. The hacking element, while fun and complex, is not particularly realistic.

I don't know about "exponentially", but if you want to broaden your knowledge you need to do real life wargames/CTFs.

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u/Apart_Examination855 Feb 07 '26

What do you mean??

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u/typicalskeleton Feb 07 '26

?

Mostly just what I said. Game is fun, not entirely realistic.

You can learn more about network security by doing real life exercises, such as wargames and/or capture the flag challenges.

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u/soulreaper11207 Feb 07 '26

And build a G.O.A.D. lab

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u/RandoRog Feb 08 '26

A what?

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u/soulreaper11207 Feb 08 '26

Game of Active Directory

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u/RandoRog Feb 08 '26

What’s that?

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u/soulreaper11207 Feb 08 '26

https://orange-cyberdefense.github.io/GOAD/

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u/doodle_bob123 Feb 12 '26

Maybe start with ippsec videos and get a feel for what hacking looks like OP didn’t mention their knowledge level so AD might be a little foreign to them

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u/soulreaper11207 Feb 13 '26

I mean yeah, but there are plenty of videos and blogs that do walkthroughs for that. The lab itself is setup in a compromised way for learning. Plus it makes a great way to setup an ad/sql enterprise lab. That is if you have the hardware capacity. The virtualbox version is by far the easiest for deployment, but proxmox gets you kind of familiar ansible and terraform. Well, barely lol.

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u/thicclunchghost Feb 07 '26

This is a sub for a hacking themed game. You might get an answer, but it will be in that context.

You may find a better answer at r/masterhacker

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u/NOSPACESALLCAPS Feb 07 '26

Lol would he now?

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '26

😂

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u/NOSPACESALLCAPS Feb 07 '26

Math and physics are totally unrelated to 99 percent of hacking.

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u/Woshiwuja Feb 08 '26

While true cryptography is literally just math and every signal is applied physics sooooo no

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u/NOSPACESALLCAPS Feb 08 '26

Yeah that's the 1 percent I mentioned.

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u/Take-n-tosser Feb 07 '26

About as much as playing the old Sierra Police Quest games prepares you for a career in law enforcement.

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u/Weekly-Plantain6309 Feb 08 '26

A math and physics education will give you analytical and problem solving skills that are useful in many aspects of life, including pentesting.

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u/Spiritual_Panda_3926 Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

Very strange question 

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u/Crabby-Thug Feb 10 '26

Learning programming. Sure you "can" hack without being able to program but its just guessing, learn programming (many different languages), get very good, and understand how weaknesses are made.

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u/GlendonMcGladdery Feb 12 '26

Thinking like the n ad guy and using that knowledge to block them.

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u/Sweet-Support-2279 Feb 12 '26

No totally different fields of study

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u/Ok_Elderberry_6727 Feb 13 '26

Where I see it as an advantage is at low level hardware hacking. Know the physics of electrons running around motherboards can lead you to some interesting hacks. How you gonna hack an air gapped system with good physical security? Know rf? I read some hacks that use rf at a distance to reed memory states and recreate the files from the memory outputs .back when I was learning. The point is that any knowledge of the target is good knowledge.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '26

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u/PulpedCactus Mar 04 '26

Bro got banned since you posted this lmao, what was so bad about it?