The rant about "Hacking is Cool" is really dumb. Hacking is cool because it encourages thinking adversarially and learning a lot about how the target system wo

The rant about "Hacking is Cool" is really dumb. Hacking is cool because it encourages thinking adversarially and learning a lot about how the target system works. You learn things and you get better at security. The author seems to think this is purely talking about learning about known vulns that will be obsolete, but it's also about discovering vulns and developing a natural defensive attitude for your own software. This actually comes off as someone who's bitter about other people having skills the industry considers "cool."