Blockchain will make things even harder for blackhat hackers

Hacking can be fun. It’s also educational. And to be clear, I’m not talking about the steal-your-stuff type of hacking. I’m referring to taking things to the extreme — finding interesting ways to solve things, discovering secret entryways, maximizing hidden features, and other cool stuff. Hacking isn’t essentially evil by itself. Like any tool or method, it’s how you use it that matters. So it’s bad if you hack with malicious intentions, but it mostly reflects your own character rather than the act of hacking. That’s why we have so-called “whitehat” and “blackhat” hackers, and a whole granola of gradients in between.…

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