"Firstly…lets get something straight., The ‘cleverest’ programmers are not usually ‘hackers’. Firstly, its much easier to break something than build it. You bui

"Firstly…lets get something straight., The ‘cleverest’ programmers are not usually ‘hackers’. Firstly, its much easier to break something than build it. You build software with 100,000 lines of code and 1 line has a potential exploit? you did a good job 99,999 times, versus a hacker who finds that one exploit. " Having done a fair bit of both over the last two decades, I'm afraid I have to disagree here... Writing good solid code is a skill, gained with focus and experience. Reversing, auditing, exploiting are also on their own difficult skills, gained with focus and experience. Saying one is "much easier" than the other is to entirely misunderstand either building or hacking or both.