Wether you love or hate hacking it exists in the world. There are two sides of computer security and there is occasional side swapping. Those sides are blackhat and whitehat hacking.
You can’t be a blackhat hacker without knowing how to be whitehat. And vice versa. Computer security has attracted various developers for a long time. Those activities are an interesting brain teasers. It is something to keep you occupied, and it is something that gives a sense of power. When hacking you get that feeling of mental superiority, like you own the world, like you are in control.
In the recent years there has been a considerable evolution of security technology. With improvement in SAST, the improvement of attack vectors also arrived. These days there are various supply chain attacks, automated discoveries of zero days exploits, secrets scanners, and various bug bounty programs. And with ai penetration tools being just around the corner, it means we are living in interesting times. However, to be honest, one thing hasn’t changed, the playfield is constantly evolving.
So have you considered doing some hacking yourself?
There are plenty of stuff that makes software engineer look awesome. We are paid well, we tend to work on interesting problems. We tend to use logic a lot. However due to loneliness of our job we want to be cooler. The most important thing to know is, that we should try to feel good about ourselves. We should try to stay humble. We shouldn’t be envious of other people and we should try to iteratively improve our lives.