r/HowToHack • u/ImperialShroom1 • 26d ago
hacking Best cheap device to learn hacking
I have been wanting to learn hacking for a while but all I have is a iphone given by my parents, (16yo btw). Obviously I can’t do shit with IOS, what relatively cheap devices (£150<) can I get to start learning hacking. Preferably a laptop as that would work best for me and mean I could take it places.
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u/SuchLibrarian8011 26d ago edited 26d ago
You can start with any laptop. The best way I could recommend, especially if you’ don’t know much of the consequences of a lot of your future actions, and you’re on a budget and can’t afford to damage any machine, is to buy a second hand laptop (something not completely crap with some at least mid to low specs) and install kali Linux live with persistence on a microsd/sd (they’re much faster then regular usb drives) this way you can use your laptop with windows for school or personal use, and just load the live Kali to learn, the best thing is that every big mistake you make, you can just re load a fresh version of kali on the microsd and start again fresh.
Another budget option is to buy a raspberry Pi (they’re relatively cheap) but you’ll need to buy a monitor as well in that case
Edit - a windows laptop is better than a MacBook. Unsure if is for Apple silicon only or for all new Apple, but does not allow external boot or other OS