For instance, you could say a vulnerability exists in a phone switch, and if you do this and this, then you can get free phone calls. It's not the content that seems to bother people, it's the presentation. You could buy the same book on how to steal identities, but it could be labeled Criminal Investigator's Guide to How People Are Committing Identity Theft , and it would be fine. But if it were Everybody's Guide to Stealing Identities Easily , then all of a sudden it's bad. Because one is pitched to the police, and one is pitched to the criminal, suddenly the same information inside the book turns from being good to bad.
Some hackers claim they're benefiting security by hacking into systems and exposing vulnerabilities.
I don't think that's valid. You can simulate it. You had said that you thought things were going to get worse in security before they'd get better. Well, I'm in the mind-set now that things will never get better. Things will get progressively worse.