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Hack is a programming language for the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM), created by Meta as a dialect of PHP. The language implementation is free and open-source software, licensed under an MIT License. Wikipedia →

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Pick up a classic book: Beginning Ethical Hacking with PythonThe most-reprinted book on the subject
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📚 Books worth reading

Beginning Ethical Hacking with PythonSanjib Sinha · 2016
📕Python for Secret AgentsSteven F. Lott · 2014
Cracking Codes with PythonAl Sweigart · 2018
📕Zhi ye hai ke de xiu lianSheng Qiu · 2016

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