It reminded me of the time my Democratic Party precinct captain asked if I wanted to be a precinct captain. You'd be the Republican precinct captain. Then we'd have all our bases covered. The illusions of cyberspace are seductive. Every keystroke leaves a luminous track in the melting snow that can be seen with the equivalent of night vision goggles.
Hackers are unwilling to do as little as possible.
Hackers are the online detectives of the virtual world. You don't get to be a hacker overnight. The devil is in the details. Real hackers get good by endless trial and error, failing into success again and again. Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the electric light, invented a hundred filaments that didn't work before he found one that did.