In a world where "illegal hacking" can mean "making a document you legally own on a device you legally own usable with other software", there is most definitely

In a world where "illegal hacking" can mean "making a document you legally own on a device you legally own usable with other software", there is most definitely a problem. Further, how does one discover weaknesses without doing things? Are any and all discussions of security to be confined to the purely hypothetical?