This hits home for me. > Then: We were the kids who saw the blinking cursor not as a barrier, but as an invitation. We typed characters into the voids and got

This hits home for me. > Then: We were the kids who saw the blinking cursor not as a barrier, but as an invitation. We typed characters into the voids and got back secrets. Our goal was not destruction, it was understanding — to understand the systems better than those who built them. > Now: Hacking is a job title. Curiosity has been commodified. A thousand "Bug Bounty Platforms" are trying to monetize your desire for understanding, to turn it into CVEs and T-shirts.