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Can you explain your "1% are sellouts" comment? Are you saying that top-tier crackers that accept money for their services are sellouts?

• burrows 16y ago
  I'm sure this is going to ruffle feathers, but whatever. The way you become a 'top tier hacker' is by exploiting and reversing in the community (black/grey hats). Much of this is done through working with people who you respect and may have more experience than you. Through this comes a certain level of respect, to where going public with exploits and such is a hindrance to the community and only serves your selfish agenda for fame or whatever. Your exploiting all the people you've worked with in the past, ripping their ideas, and handing them off to assholes who then try to teach classes on 'ethical hacking' or whatever. So yes, I'm calling them sellouts. *Edit - Another problem I have is that these people generally tend to misrepresent 'black hacks' as a whole and try to play themselves off as bigger than life personas.