As opposed to needing to dip their toes in “illegal” conduct and making their income streams unsound or too risky in terms of legal liabillity by doing ransom demands

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    Most hackers are responsible. Hackerone is a site where anyone can sign up and start claiming bug bounties for reporting vulnerabilities. They claim to have 2 million active hackers. Just like anything else, the people breaking the law are in the minority and probably resorted to it after trying to make money the legal way.