I take issue with the author's assumption of who these people are.

I do not think we are talking about people like you or me hacking "for the fun of it" and stealing money. We are much more likely talking about someone in another country, to whom grandma's purse contains "more" than it does to those in richer countries. Or, we are talking about those too young to be in the workforce and who have nothing better to.

No matter how bored I get, stealing money is not something I would do. Finding vulnerabilities, maybe. Exploting those same findings, no.

Perhaps these bad, nasty people aren't the ones doing security work/research at all; they merely consume the knowledge and build exploits for whatever we find.

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