Just to play angel's advocate, your parent could have been referring to an abstract malicious hacker, who would probably think the same way and use the same tec

Just to play angel's advocate, your parent could have been referring to an abstract malicious hacker, who would probably think the same way and use the same techniques as Pinky. The "mind of a hacker (the malicious kind)" is probably very much like the mind of Pinky, except for the parts governing ethics. And he asks what to do "against people like this", not what to do against Pinky himself. But you are right, and it is valuable to point out that neither Pinky nor Homakov nor any other talented whitehat are in no way malicious.