>I assume they just have some sort of innate satisfaction from finding vulnerabilities, sort of like solving a puzzle? Oh yeah, that's exactly why I do what I

>I assume they just have some sort of innate satisfaction from finding vulnerabilities, sort of like solving a puzzle? Oh yeah, that's exactly why I do what I do. I also keep a portfolio of all the freelance, zero-profit whitehat hacking that I do to show to employers, it's not as if it were without benefit. The first time I saw Shodan.io, I thought to myself "I could do that", so I spent $500 over 6 months and started scanning the entire Internet for vulnerabilities. It was a lot of fun, and I never earned a penny, but employers love when I bring out all my data, like my 100k row spreadsheet of every single HP printer connected to the internet with a WAN IP address. It was also fun to localize my scans to my current city, because I could walk around downtown and know that MY packets were trickling through all the buildings around me. Tl;Dr: People are intrinsically motivated to do what they love, whatever it may be.