What Keeps You From Illegal Hacking? (If anything)

What keeps people from doing other illegal things?

You might know how to kill someone, but what stops you from doing that for personal gain? Most of us (well speaking at least myself) are just interested in it.

Lacking skills

Well, I don’t think I would be very comfortable on prison xD

It’s a basically a play between empathy and sympathy, as a human we are.

With empathy, we understand people and ourselves. With sympathy you’ll feel the sorrow of people. Those 2 are things that keeps us human. Imagine a world without these two.

Because I simply don’t want to. For the same reason I don’t want to kill someone. I want to use my knowledge for the good, to help improve technology and progress further. I admit when I was a script kiddie I was a bit stupid and tried a few things I probably shouldn’t. On that note, I like to think of myself as a white hat hacker.

The only time I WOULD illegally hack is to help defeat the real bad guys who want to cause damage and destruction. Anonymous are hacktivists, they hack for politicial causes, but for the right reasons

Know the consequences NO MATTER WHAT THE HELL YOU GAIN FROM BEING A BLACK HAT , FOR PERSONAL GAIN
LAW AND ORDER WILL STILL CHASE BEHIND YOU .

At Last , You will be Prosecuted or get caught by the authorities making the personal gain nothing but a big round Zero,
Being a Black hat is same as being a thief who always hurt anyone In his way for his own Personal gain

In short,

“BE THE CHANGE,YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD”
-Mahatma Gandhi

Don’t be an Illegal Jerk Who Makes someone’s life miserable

Well if I had the skills to actually do some damage on live systems, I’d still not do it.
I think it’s interesting to look for flaws in systems, and improve then plus I’ve recently analysed my first memory dump, which was actually more fun than I anticipated :-)