>If hacking is not illegal when we do it, then it will not be illegal when they do it—and “they” is increasingly becoming the private sector. Not sure I follow

>If hacking is not illegal when we do it, then it will not be illegal when they do it—and “they” is increasingly becoming the private sector. Not sure I follow the logic here. The State has a monopoly on many things that are never allowed in the private sector -- violence being the most obvious one. We don't seem to have a huge problem with the split here; why we couldn't do the same for hacking?