https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=allcHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:51:03 +0000because of their underlying lack of ethics. You need to have ethical hackers that are interested in the wellbeing/security of a community/society. Even if they know the systems from both perspectives, if they even have a moral deficiency, what's to stop them from committing insider attacks/writing exploits of the system? You cannot trust that type of people unless you know for certain that they have abandoned their prior convictions and truly follow white hat hacking, and knowing for certain is hard to do.

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