Skills Required in order to be a hacker or pen-tester

[Decypher]

In order to beat a hacker you need to think like a hacker.
- Learn to use human error to your advantage.
- Learn Networking.
- Learn to use the "testing tools" available to crack passwords.
- Learn enough programming to understand source code you didn't write.(C/C+)
- Learn scripting languages (Ruby,python,perl,javascript)
- Good knowledge of database & query languages
- Learn to work in UNIX
- Start playing with API's
- Learn assembly Programing
- Learn to use a VPN. or you get your ass in jail
-Learn to implement backdoors into opensource code without getting caught.