(06-04-2018 - 12:54 PM)darkcyberninja Wrote: You could go to Black Hat Conference https://www.blackhat.com/us-18/ there are thousands there.
Just learn to recognise the Feds who attend before blerting out your plan to take over the universe to the first black hats you meet!
Second that
You could go to Black Hat and try to network but walking up to someone at Black Hat and saying, "hey are you a real black hat?" is probably not going to do you any good. You can talk with the presenters at black hat, they have a mechanism for doing this after very popular talks - just follow the presenter when he leaves - there will be an entourage looking group and a black hat staff member guide him/her to the after talk area where you can ask questions in a less public, more intimate environment.
Don't forget there is a lot of money to be made as a white hat. The post above that says work on your skills is correct. Near zero percent unemployment in white hat world should tell you that you'll do fine, even if you are just OK at hacking, you'll do great if you are good, and you will be more successful at white hat than most black hats if you are great, plus no paranoia (or no added paranoia on top of what any good hacker already has).
If you still have criminal leanings (but you probably will not after you see how lucrative white hat world can be) you will meet (at the very least) grey hats in the white hat world - and guess who they know? Either way your path is the same at the start line, but sometimes hackers have a way to create their own start line so whoami to lecture anyone?