4. Hackers aren't cool. Yes, please, lets return to the halycon days of 1989 when anyone who published vulnerability research ended up on an FBI watchlist and the unemployment rolls (clears throat, recent drama notwithstanding). Everything was much better then. And whats with this arguement that teaching yourself about system penetration is a patch dependent skill!? There are larger concepts that one learns through such a process that everyone involved in computer security needs to understand. How can you design hack proof security systems if you don't know the first thing about hacking?

I did read that one as a pure troll on semantics. He said that we should have the idea that "Good Engineering is Cool". In my eyes, good engineering and hacking are synonymous.

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