My findings on how to stay safe for when hacking or other trouble making.
If you like an want to hack or learn a skill but don't want to get busted set up a pen testing environment/virtualize environment. Most vm's allow you to virtualize a network so you don't hit a real computer or fuck things up.
Have different virtualize os to crack or write malware. Have one visualized os just for keeping files you don't want retrieved.
Encrypt that vm it then encrypted your hard drive if you ever get busted and they can't get the stuff it could mean less years. (If you going to do serious shit find a way to quickly destroy that hard drive if they ever show up one day.)
If you're are confident enough and want to do some real stuff there are a some real hacker challenges out.(they do get hard)
Now that i shared simple shit with you, go find and learn shit yourself.