[phyrrus9]

Forgive me if i am asking too many silly questions as of late, but i am really curious. I mean, the reason why i joined this forum is so i could ask questions.

I haven't really introduced myself but all you need to know is that i am a simple programmer interested to learn more. I like to read about security a lot, but i have never done anything in real life (aside from simple CTF challenges).

It has come to my awareness, from searching deeply and conversing with many people that what i know as "hacking" is very different from reality. In this era that we live in there are many ways someone, a company for example, can fortify their networks, servers etc. to prevent such attacks.
Thus i really doubt that in the real world it is possible to actually gain access to pretty much anything. I don't believe it is impossible, but rather very rare for such thing to happen. Maybe you could do something if you target Mr. Georgie from next door who knows nothing about security, but i think that you would't be able to do much to anyone who has at least basic knowledge.

Since this is a forum about hacking, what do you think? Can a hacker do anything remotely (by that i mean from another network and maybe without physical access) in this age? Can someone who is experienced gain unauthorized access if he really wanted to? How dangerous, or rather how much power does a hacker have?

Thank you very much in advance, and sorry for my spelling.

It's awesome that you are here asking questions, for that's the first step you need to take to be able to learn. Thankfully, there are dozens of us here to help you. @"Ender" and I write quite a few good tutorials on the obscure things that are required when you're "hacking", and I suggest you read them. Here's a selection of Ender's:
Mobile Privacy and Security
Rapid Learning
Demistifying the Bitcoin Blockchain
Implementing BrainFuck Data Instructions
and the list goes on. He tends to write about the theory of things you will want to learn, wheras I write about the process and the mindset. I've too many tutorials to link you here, but take a look at my list of them (hosted elsewhere)
Tutorial List


Now, if you want to test your hacking abilities on something that's in the real world, I have a thread just for you: Read this

Good luck