Indeed. I could easily point you to the tools one needs to being that path but realize there is no simple guide. My advice, start with networking. Look into Cisco books, particularly 'Network Routing Basics'. This will give you an awesome base. Next your going to need to learn to code, and to script. Start with python, look up 'Learn Python the Hard Way'. Now learn HTML\CSS and then PHP\MySQL\JavaScript. Now is the time to start looking into a few different topics, namely SQL Injection, MetaSploit, and BackTrack. These are all super duper simple but will give you the resources to learn more. Start looking into Linux and Perl. And remember the more you read the better you are going to be; so hit up your favorite torrent site (i recommend kat.ph) and start grabbing ebooks. This is probably why you don't see his post anymore. Good Luck, and Good travels, DigitalAlch