I used to love the interactive ones where it really gives the impression for yourself too that you’re hacking, so if it’s complicated and fake-functional enough it might be something.

Dunno why anyone would want to downvote this, but here’s back up to 1. 😜

Yes, that is a good beginner project if you’re learning Python.

It has a lot of flexibility in scale, scope and presentation and bugs don’t matter much. This makes it easier to make progress as you can just drop or change parts that are too big, complex or hard right now. Or add stuff at random if it looks like a good idea at the time. It also has a tangible visual output, which is motivating.

Don’t worry about it being confused for any real hacking tool. Legit hackers can tell at a glance - even if you were to try your best to pretend it’s real :) Labeling it “toy” or “fake” will make it clear for anyone else.

Go for it! Have fun!

Why make it fake? Why not spend time making a port scanner or something that looks for wireless networks and checks for weak credentials instead? Sounds like a better beginner project to me.

Doing a “hack simulator” would likely be easier in other languages, so you will hopefully run into some problems regarding acquiring and presenting the information, which I imagine would give you a decent understanding of the flow of data in python.

I’d say “Go for it”, doesn’t sound too advanced and not “hello world”-simple either.

Just make sure you make it clear it’s a simulator. While I love to see script kiddie consternation when their ransomware target turns out to be fake, you probably don’t want the real bad guys to use it thinking it’s legitimate. And you don’t want security companies putting you on a bad list because of joke software someone else abused to give a sysadmin a heart attack, either.