Reading the rest of the articles, it is extremely interesting to see the quality of a real blackhat.
The black hat is putting in hard work and making tools while getting an unreasonable amount of funds. (Of course illicit professions have that tendency with risk factor and all.)
We're talking about a profession learned strictly from the community that developed extremely specific and effective skills.
Anyone able to do that and succeed is obviously talented and it is telling that they were never interested in cashing that talent in a legitimate career with a major tech firm.
I think of "hacking" as breaking things, taking them apart, and learning how they work; and "programming" as creating and building new things. As much as I am in awe of the amazing technical power of elite black hat hackers, there is something really special about creating something new and transporting it from your imagination into the real world.
The black hat is putting in hard work and making tools while getting an unreasonable amount of funds. (Of course illicit professions have that tendency with risk factor and all.)
We're talking about a profession learned strictly from the community that developed extremely specific and effective skills.
Anyone able to do that and succeed is obviously talented and it is telling that they were never interested in cashing that talent in a legitimate career with a major tech firm.